Depth
[depθ] or [dɛpθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) degree of psychological or intellectual profundity.
(noun.) the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense; 'the depth of his breathing'; 'the depth of his sighs,' 'the depth of his emotion'.
(noun.) the extent downward or backward or inward; 'the depth of the water'; 'depth of a shelf'; 'depth of a closet'.
(noun.) (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; 'from the depths of darkest Africa'; 'signals received from the depths of space'.
(noun.) (usually plural) a low moral state; 'he had sunk to the depths of addiction'.
海丝特編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops.
(n.) Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance; completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
(n.) Lowness; as, depth of sound.
(n.) That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place; the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of winter.
(n.) The number of simple elements which an abstract conception or notion includes; the comprehension or content.
(n.) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
錄入:谢里夫
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Deepness, profundity.[2]. Extent, measure.[3]. Middle, central part.[4]. Discernment, sagacity, shrewdness, penetration, astuteness, perspicacity, profoundness.
錄入:帕特里斯
解釋/意思:
n. deepness: the measure of deepness down or inwards: a deep place: the sea: the middle as depth of winter: abstruseness: extent of sagacity and penetration.—adj. Depth′less having no depth.—Out of one's depth in water where one cannot touch bottom: in water too deep for one's safety: beyond one's faculties.—The depths the lowest pitch of humiliation and misery.
克劳迪娅手打
例句/造句/用法:
- Animal and vegetable matter buried in the depth of the earth sometimes undergoes natural distillation, and as a result gas is formed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They reveal a depth and range of meaning in experiences which otherwise might be mediocre and trivial. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- The length of time in boiling depends upon the depth of color desired. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- It is not sufficient that the bottom be strong; the sides likewise must support their strain, and hence must be increased in strength with depth. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Although we were anxious to leave England before the depth of winter, yet we were detained. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of thirty-five or thirty-six feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I really think I saw tears rise to his eyes, from the depth of his own feeling of all this. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- During the experiment in Long Island Sound the pump was stopped for ten minutes, while the diver was at a depth of 100 feet. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The length of the Great Eastern was 692 feet, beam 83 feet, depth 57? feet, draft 25? feet, displacement 27,000 tons, and speed 12 knots. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- A river's its natural depth, and he's his natural depth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- We also knew the width, length, and approximate depth of every one of these deposits, which were enormous. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- The cut is nine miles long, 300 feet wide, 272 feet greatest depth and required the excavation of 100,000,000 cubic yards of material. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- One light glimmered in the depth. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The hull was 133 feet long, 18 feet beam, and 7 feet depth. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- If the central depths were untouched, hardly a pin-point of surface remained the same. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It is necessary that this drawing be made in four operations; the first and second are particularly interesting, on account of their depths, which are 5-1/2 and 9-3/16 inches, respectively. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Half a dozen able-bodied men were standing in a line from the well-mouth, holding a rope which passed over the well-roller into the depths below. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- His honest eyes fire up, and sparkle, as if their depths were stirred by something bright. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- He sowed different seeds from the same machine, and arranged that they might be covered at different depths. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The lightning is made his swift messenger, and thought flashes in submarine depths around the world. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The thought of Laura welled up like a spring in the depths of my heart, and filled it with waters of bitterness, never, never known to it before. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The azure of the sky penetrates the depths of the lake, and the waters are sweet and cool. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The low, bad, unimpressible face is coming up from the depths of the river, or what other depths, to the surface again. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Before I could overtake him he had sprung to the rail and hurled himself headforemost into the awful depths below. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- A device for continuously indicating on a galvanometer the depths of the ocean. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Don't use such dreadful expressions, replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- And then she was dragged out of my sight into the depths of the deserted edifice. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
整理:莫顿