Cliff
[klɪf]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a steep high face of rock; 'he stood on a high cliff overlooking the town'; 'a steep drop'.
校對:鲁本--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A high, steep rock; a precipice.
(n.) See Clef.
凯思琳校對
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Crag, precipice, high and steep rock.
多米尼克整理
解釋/意思:
n. (mus.). Same as Clef.
n. a high steep rock: the steep side of a mountain.—adjs. Cliffed Cliff′y having cliffs: craggy.
校對:奥菲莉娅
例句/造句/用法:
- Would the cliff resist this new battery? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- What we call the rolling of thunder is really the reflection and re-reflection of the original thunder from cloud and cliff. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I think we had better all go, said Justinian, turning away from the cliff. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- I will do it, Kyrion, said Alexandros, who liked this scheme immensely; and then I can escape down the cliff. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The open head of the robe was protected by the rock wall of the cliff. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- So frantic were their efforts to escape from the unseen thing behind me that one of the braves was hurled headlong from the cliff to the rocks below. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Again I saw that grim face look over the cliff, and I knew that it was the precursor of another stone. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- As we advanced we found a well-proportioned tunnel cut from the solid cliff. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- And the man who hit him first was kneeling by the edge of the cliff looking over after him and saying, 'The Cabron! 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Many relics of the inhabitants have been found in these cliff dwellings, although we cannot tell how they lived, for the region is now rainless and therefore destitute of food plants. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The bridge, 800 feet long, is a single span, supported by four enormous cables of wire stretching from the Canadian cliff to the opposite United States cliff. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The cliff arose for several hundred feet on my right, and on my left was an equal and nearly perpendicular drop to the bottom of a rocky ravine. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- You shall go to Cliff Bridge; and there are two guineas to buy a new frock. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Some had sickles and reaping hooks but these Pablo placed at the far end where the lines reached the edge of the cliff. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- By those coils of rope up there you can escape down the face of the cliff? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- There was a golden surface on the brown cliffs but now, and behold they are only damp earth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- My only answer was my own voice reverberating in a rolling echo from the cliffs around me. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- There were towering cliffs on our left, and the pretty Lago di Lecco on our right, and every now and then it rained on us. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Straight to the top of the cliffs, Prince, she replied, and then through the gardens to the inner courts. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Far up in a sheltered nook, under the red cliffs, twelve graves had been dug in the soft sand, and in these were the ill-fated seamen laid. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- She felt she was alone, quite alone, and the far-off shining cliffs of England were impassable to her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- They drew and painted on the cliffs and cave walls that they had wrested from the Neanderthal men. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The cables pass over the tops of lofty stone towers arising from these cliffs, and each cable consists of no less than 4,000 distinct wires. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- There was no accumulation of fallen debris, forming a more or less rough ascent to them, as is the case with nearly all other cliffs I have ever seen. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The cliffs, the beach, and the walks inland were all in the solitary condition which was most welcome to us. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- With your mighty sword arm you may yet win to the Golden Cliffs and the templed gardens of the Holy Therns. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- They encountered him again and again on the sands, the cliffs, in the various walks, sometimes at the public balls of the place. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Yes; I get it from the cliffs of the island. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Cliffs o' Albion, and t' other hemisphere! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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