Cavern
['kæv(ə)n] or ['kævɚn]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a large cave or a large chamber in a cave.
(noun.) any large dark enclosed space; 'his eyes were dark caverns'.
(verb.) hollow out as if making a cavern.
校對:弗恩--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A large, deep, hollow place in the earth; a large cave.
迪莉娅編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Grotto, cave, den.
編輯:凯利
解釋/意思:
n. a deep hollow place in the earth.—v.t. to put in a cavern: to hollow out in the form of a cavern.—adjs. Cav′erned full of caverns: dwelling in a cavern; Cav′ernous hollow: full of caverns.—adv. Cav′ernously.—adj. Caver′nūlous full of little cavities.
整理:玛米
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of seeing a cavern yawning in the weird moonlight before you, many perplexities will assail you, and doubtful advancement because of adversaries. Work and health is threatened. To be in a cave foreshadows change. You will probably be estranged from those who are very dear to you. For a young woman to walk in a cave with her lover or friend, denotes she will fall in love with a villain and will suffer the loss of true friends.
奥德丽整理
例句/造句/用法:
- For several ages no woman has been allowed to enter the cavern where that important hole is. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A hut rarely receives her; the hollow tree and chill cavern are her home. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Bowing with the air of one accustomed to public praise, he stole to the cavern and ordered Hagar to come forth with a commanding, What ho, minion! 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- We went to the Milk Grotto, of course--a cavern where Mary hid herself for a while before the flight into Egypt. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- At length we arrived at a large, desert, dark cavern, which the Lazzeroni assured us was the Sibyl's Cave. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- After a succession of these, which our resolution alone permitted us to surmount, we arrived at a wide cavern with an arched dome-like roof. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- A spring trickles out of the rock in the gloomy recesses of the cavern, and we were thirsty. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is nothing but a dismal cavern, roughly hewn in the living rock of the Hill of Calvary. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Once within, you find yourself in an arched cavern about one hundred and sixty feet long, one hundred and twenty wide, and about seventy high. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I inhabit a den, Miss--a cavern, where you would not put your dainty nose. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Nevertheless, I will try it, said my companion; it may lead to the real cavern. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Then we went down into a cavern which cavilers say was once a cistern. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Think of mass and a sermon away down in those tangled caverns under ground! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Other rocks, like limestone, are so readily soluble in water that from the small pores and cavities eaten out by the water, there may develop in long centuries, caves and caverns (Fig. 30). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Our houses would become caverns, and we should go in rags because we cared for nobody. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Their only available light for going deeply into the caverns would be torches. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They dispossessed _Homo Neanderthalensis_ from his caverns and his stone quarries. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Rolling and crashing on as if it echoed through a thousand caverns where the devils were hiding from it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- He who should have been our shield against all harm, hath kept us shut within the noisome caverns of his donjon-keep for lo these thirty years. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Hanging lights made emerald caverns in the depths of foliage, and whitened the spray of a fountain falling among lilies. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
克拉丽斯編輯