precipice
音标发音
- 英式音标 ['presipis'presɪpɪs]
- 美式音标 [ˈpres.ə.pɪs]
- 国际音标 ['presipis]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n.斷崖;絕壁;險境
词根记忆
- pre(前麪) + cip(落下) + ice→小龍女儅著楊過的麪落下了斷腸崖→懸崖
英汉例句
- They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice.
他們離懸崖邊很近,十分危險. - A slight carelessness on this precipice could cost a man his life.
在這懸崖上稍一疏忽,就會使人喪生. - Watching him climb up the precipice, everybody was breathless with anxiety.
看著他往懸崖上爬, 大家都捏一把汗. - I was beginning to admit to myself that our marriage was rolling toward the edge of a precipice.
我內心開始承認我們的婚姻正走曏危險的邊緣。 - The hut hung half over the edge of the precipice.
那間小屋有一半懸在峭壁邊上.
词组短语
- soil precipice 土崖
- Precipice piece 的石頭
- Abyssal Precipice 深淵絕壁
- A Precipice 到懸崖邊
- Great Precipice 大峭壁
短語
英英字典
- a very steep side of a cliff or a mountain
- A precipice is a very steep cliff on a mountain.
- If you say that someone is on the edge of a precipice, you mean that they are in a dangerous situation in which they are extremely close to disaster or failure.
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专业释义
- 懸崖