sand, mud, etc. that is carried by flowing water and is left at the mouth of a river or in a harbour（沉积在河口或港口的）泥沙，淤泥，粉砂- The wreck was covered in a fine layer of silt.沉船被一层薄薄的淤泥覆盖。
- The tunnel had been blocked with silt.隧道被泥沙堵住了。
Topics Geographyc2Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective… of siltverb + silt- deposit
- remove
- be covered in
- …
silt + nounprepositionSee full entry Word Originlate Middle English: probably originally denoting a salty deposit and of Scandinavian origin, related to Danish and Norwegian sylt ‘salt marsh’, also to salt.