Gulf
[gʌlf] or [ɡʌlf]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); 'he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends'; 'there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy'.
(noun.) a deep wide chasm.
(noun.) an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay.
丹整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,
(n.) That which swallows; the gullet.
(n.) That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.
(n.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.
(n.) A large deposit of ore in a lode.
編輯:沃尔夫冈
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Large bay.[2]. Abyss.
贝妮塔整理
同義詞及反義詞：
[See ABYSS]
桃瑞丝整理
解釋/意思:
n. a hollow or indentation in the sea-coast: a deep place in the earth: an abyss: a whirlpool: anything insatiable: in Oxford and Cambridge examinations the place of those next to the pass but not bad enough to fail.—v.t. to engulf.—n. Gulf′-weed a large olive-brown sea-weed with stalked air-bladders.—adj. Gulf′y full of gulfs or whirlpools.—Gulf Stream a great current of warm water flowing out of the Gulf of Mexico through the Strait of Florida along the eastern coast of the United States of America then deflected near the banks of Newfoundland diagonally across the Atlantic.
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例句/造句/用法:
- They had no sense of the other possibility, the gulf of the republican extremists, that yawned at their feet. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- She falls from the lowermost stair, and is swallowed up in the gulf. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The Gulf Stream illustrates the transference of heat by convection. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- On the 6th Sherman arrived at Grand Gulf and crossed his command that night and the next day. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The fleet followed him by sea, and rejoined him at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Accordingly the troops were set in motion for Hard Times, twenty-two miles farther down the river and nearly opposite Grand Gulf. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She felt as if a great gulf lay between her caste and his, and that to cross it or meet him half-way would be to degrade herself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The enemy had taken a strong natural position with most of the Grand Gulf garrison, numbering about seven or eight thousand men, under General Bowen. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Grand Gulf was accordingly given up as a base and the authorities at Washington were notified. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- From the Gulf of Finland to the Eastern Ocean, Russia now assumes the form of a powerful and civilized empire. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was evident that the enemy was covering a retreat from Grand Gulf to Vicksburg. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- This more than doubled the distance from Grand Gulf to the high land back of Bruinsburg. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- To resume: Canby is ordered to operate to the interior from the Gulf. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- At moments she was a Calvinist, and, sinking into the gulf of religious despair, she saw darkening over her the doom of reprobation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- They _are_ shaped like sharks, Robert Jordan thought, the wide-finned, sharp-nosed sharks of the Gulf Stream. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
整理:胡安妮塔