Gap
[gæp] or [ɡæp]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a narrow opening; 'he opened the window a crack'.
(noun.) a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures; 'gap between income and outgo'; 'the spread between lending and borrowing costs'.
(noun.) a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations.
(verb.) make an opening or gap in.
卡里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
(v. t.) To notch, as a sword or knife.
(v. t.) To make an opening in; to breach.
編輯:朱利叶斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Cleft, crevice, opening, chink, cranny, crack, interstice, breach, rift, break, hiatus.
整理:纳特
解釋/意思:
n. an opening made by rupture or parting: a cleft: a passage: a deep ravine in a mountain-ridge: any breach of continuity.—v.t. to notch: to make a gap in.—adjs. Gap′py full of gaps; Gap-toothed lacking some of the teeth.—Stand in the gap to stand forward in active defence of something; Stop a gap to repair a defect close a breach.
錄入:厄普顿
例句/造句/用法:
- They were merry and social, but they each knew that a gap, never to be filled, had been made in their circle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Substances which, like an air gap, interfere with the flow of electricity are called non-conductors, or, more commonly, insulators. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Get thee down, Robert Jordan whispered to Agustín, and he turned his head and flicked his hand _Down, Down_, to Anselmo who was coming through the gap with a pine tree, carrying it over his shoulder like a Christmas tree. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- If you hear firing bring them up to the woods behind the gap. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- At that moment, the carriage appeared in the distance, through the gap, on its way to the lodge-gate. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- McPherson was therefore sent around by the right, to come out by the way of Snake Creek Gap into the rear of the enemy. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This organization of murder as a sport and show serves to measure the great gap in moral standards between the Roman community and our own. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Then hunger closed the gap between them, and the son of an English lord and an English lady nursed at the breast of Kala, the great ape. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He left a sad gap behind him, when he left my lady's house. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- His animals, too, had been starved, and their carcasses lined the road from Cumberland Gap, and far back towards Lexington, Ky. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- After advancing a few hundred yards, Ezra Jennings stopped at a gap in the rough stone wall which shut off the moor from the road, at this part of it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- The sick man seemed to fall into a gap of death, at her contradiction. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Down below the gaps in the ties the river ran muddy and fast. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Where are the doubts that should have honored these investigations, the frank statement of all the gaps in knowledge, and the obscurities in morals? 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The message necessarily left large gaps for conjecture; but all that he had recently heard and seen made these but too easy to fill in. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- There were great gaps in his consciousness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- They do not perceive the want of connexion in their own writings, or the gaps in their systems which are visible enough to those who come after them. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- There were gaps of silence in the talk, as the dinner got on, that made me feel personally uncomfortable. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- For light upon these extraordinary gaps in his teaching, each reader must go to his own religious guides. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Sheridan pursued him with great energy through Harrisonburg, Staunton, and the gaps of the Blue Ridge. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The gaps remain, and there are not unpopular lodgings among the rubbish. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
手打:洛伊斯