Lava
['lɑːvə] or ['lɑvə]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanos; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface.
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解釋/意思:
(n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The bridges are of a single span--a single arch--of cut stone, without a support, and paved on top with flags of lava and ornamental pebblework. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The walls of the ditch were brilliant with yellow banks of sulphur and with lava and pumice-stone of many colors. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- And every road is fenced in by tall, solid lava walls, which will last a thousand years in this land where frost is unknown. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Seen near, it was a chaos--hollowhalf-consumed: an orb perished or perishing--half lava, half glow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Hall next experimented with lava f rom Vesuvius, Etna, Iceland, and elsewhere, and found that it behaved like whinstone. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- These hundreds of green squares, marked by their black lava walls, make the hills look like vast checkerboards. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The old man listened in astonishment to this lava-torrent of words which swept everything before it. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It rested on volcanic rocks and was itself covered with basalt, that is, lava which had crystallized under the sea. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The red lava of deep revolutionary fires oozed up through many glowing cracks in the political crust, and all the social strata were shaken. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Drift, sand, rubble, boulders, come next; and finally volcanic products, like lava, ashes, pumice. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- These first rocks must have solidified as a cake over glowing liquid material beneath, much as cooling lava does. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- He was afterwards killed in the lava beds of Southern Oregon, while in pursuit of the hostile Modoc Indians. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Why do basalts, whin stones, and other supposedly volcanic rocks differ so much in structure from lava? 李貝. 西洋科學史.
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