bedform是bed和form两个单词组成的复合词组。在地学辞书中,通常书写成bedform。在现有的中文版辞书,例如《英汉地质词典》、《英汉石油技术词典》中,bedform这一术语译为“床形、床积物形态、床沙、床沙形态、底床形态、河床形态、底形等。据英文版地质辞书《Glossary of Geology》注译,bed form,是指”由一条浅积河道的河床上的水流所致的平坦河床的任何变迁“(Any deviation from a flat bed, bedform is a combination of two words, bed and form. In geography dictionary, usually written as bedform. In the existing Chinese dictionaries such as English-Chinese Geological Dictionary and English-Chinese Dictionary of Petroleum Technology, the term bedform is translated as ”bed form, bed form, bed sand, bed sand form, bed form, Bed shape, bottom shape, etc. According to the English translation of the Glossary of Geology, “bed form” refers to “Any deviation of a flat river bed caused by the water flow in a river along a shallow river” (Any deviation from a flat bed,