in.ter.vale

n.New England （名詞）【新英格蘭】
A tract of low-lying land, especially along a river.
洼地：一大片地勢低的土地，特別是沿河的灘地

來源：
Variant influenced by vale
受 vale的影響
of interval
interval的變體

<注釋>Intervale is among the distinctive New England terms mapped by Hans Kurath in the Linguistic Atlas of New England in the 940`s. However, by the time the Dictionary of American Regional English surveyed the New England states 20 years later, says Craig M. Carver, author of American Regional Dialects, only three of the dozens of New England informants used the word intervale to indicate a .tract of low-lying land, especially along a river.. The word was common in New England at one time because so many settlements were made along the rivers, where the land was more fertile and the towns were accessible by water.
Intervale 在漢斯·科拉斯于20世紀(jì)40年代繪制的 新英格蘭語言地圖 中屬于有特色的英格蘭名詞。然而20年后 美國地區(qū)英語字典 調(diào)查新英格蘭各州時，克雷格·M·卡弗， 美國地區(qū)方言 的作者，認(rèn)為幾十個英格蘭地區(qū)講本地話的人中只有三個使用 intervale 表示.大片地勢低的土地，尤指沿河的灘地.。這個詞在新英格蘭很普通是因為許多人沿河定居，以及沿河的地區(qū)土地較為肥沃且通過水路也易于到達(dá)城鎮(zhèn)