Chasm
['kæz(ə)m] or ['kæzəm]
解释:
(n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.
(n.) A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.
录入:史黛西
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Breach, opening, cleft, fissure.[2]. Gap, hiatus, cavity, hollow.
达拉整理
解释:
n. a yawning or gaping hollow: a gap or opening: a void space.—adjs. Chasmed; Chasm′y.
录入:米歇尔
例句:
- They both rose, and slowly paced a green natural terrace bordering the chasm. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Sit down, and tell me how you came alive out of that dreadful chasm. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- I looked at the sky; it was pure: a kindly star twinkled just above the chasm ridge. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- On they came, and in a moment the burly form of Tom appeared in sight, almost at the verge of the chasm. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- Before them, at their very feet, was the brink of a black ragged chasm hidden by the thick grass. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Their departure made another material change at Mansfield, a chasm which required some time to fill up. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- The sisters found themselves confronted by a void, a terrifying chasm, as if they had looked over the edge. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The bridge was a plank, and it crossed a chasm about four feet wide and two deep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Phineas easily leaped the chasm, and sat down the boy on a smooth, flat platform of crisp white moss, that covered the top of the rock. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- He was falling through a gulf of infinite darkness, like a meteorite plunging across the chasm between the worlds. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- He must writhe on the edge of the chasm, suspended in chains of invisible physical life. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- A huge rock, falling from above, boomed past me, struck the path, and bounded over into the chasm. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Well, then, about that chasm. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- Down he fell into the chasm, crackling down among trees, bushes, logs, loose stones, till he lay bruised and groaning thirty feet below. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- For a moment the vessel hovered motionless directly above the centre of the gaping void, then slowly she began to settle into the black chasm. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- It is such tremendous trifles, not the climbing of mountains and the bridging of chasms, that make the transcontinental line one of the wonders of the ages. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- On either side were deep chasms or mountain walls. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
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