Crater
['kreɪtə] or ['kretɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb.
(noun.) a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Hydra and Corvus.
校對:维多利亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The basinlike opening or mouth of a volcano, through which the chief eruption comes; similarly, the mouth of a geyser, about which a cone of silica is often built up.
(n.) The pit left by the explosion of a mine.
(n.) A constellation of the southen hemisphere; -- called also the Cup.
手打:曼弗雷德
解釋/意思:
n. the bowl-shaped mouth of a volcano.—adjs. Crat′eriform or Crater′iform shaped like a crater; Crat′erous.
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例句/造句/用法:
- He brought out his sentences in short violent jerks, as though they were forced up from a deep inner crater of indignation. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Melnos is an extinct volcano, and this is the crater. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Thus the pass will be closed up, sealing the pirates up in the crater, so if the volcano does burst out, they will be blown to pieces. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- True, at first, I hesitated about establishing a colony in the crater of an extinct volcano, for one would never know when it would break out again. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- To live, for me, Jane, is to stand on a crater-crust which may crack and spue fire any day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- It was half an hour before musketry firing, to amount to anything, was opened upon our men in the crater. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The effect was to blow the top of the hill off and make a crater where it stood. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
校對:伍德罗