Precipice
['presɪpɪs] or ['prɛsəpɪs]
解释:
(n.) A sudden or headlong fall.
(n.) A headlong steep; a very steep, perpendicular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff.
克林特手打
同义词及近义词：
n. Cliff, crag, steep, abrupt declivity.
埃尔希编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Cliff, crag, steep_descent, headlong, steep,[See ABYSS]
费利西亚编辑
解释:
n. a very steep place: any steep descent: a perpendicular bank or cliff.—adj. Precip′itous like a precipice: very steep: hasty: rash.—adv. Precip′itously.—n. Precip′itousness.
编辑:罗达
娱乐性解释：
To dream of standing over a yawning precipice, portends the threatenings of misfortunes and calamities. To fall over a precipice, denotes that you will be engulfed in disaster. See Abyss and Pit.
手打:罗纳德
例句:
- The precipice on the opposite side of the canyon is well perforated with the small holes they dug in the rock to live in. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- He ascends to the top of a precipice by walking up the sloping hill behind, and he thus becomes practically acquainted with the principle of the _inclined plane_. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Was not the giant wave far higher than the precipice? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- But he was still dizzy with the glimpse of the precipice they had skirted, and full of a new awe at the mystery of young-girlhood. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The figure had plunged down the precipice, and she felt herself, as it were, attending on the body. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Archer sat silent, with the sense of clinging to the edge of a sliding precipice. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The most tremendous waterfall in our country is Niagara Falls, which every minute hurls millions of gallons of water down a 163-foot precipice. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- After battling for many tedious minutes with the precipice, the same scene presented itself to me, which had wrapt him in extatic wonder. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I feel as if I were walking on the edge of a precipice, towards which thousands are crowding, and endeavouring to plunge me into the abyss. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- I got the horses stopped on the very brink of the precipice. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Perdita, continued Raymond, you do not see the precipice on which you stand. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- You, Eustacia, stand on the edge of a precipice without knowing it. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- Thou wilt then keep straight forward--- A broken path--a precipice--a ford, and a morass! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- At last he came to the great shallow among the precipices and slopes, near the summit of the pass. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccessible mountain. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- A dog, that avoids fire and precipices, that shuns strangers, and caresses his master, affords us an instance of the first kind. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
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