Precipitous
[prɪ'sɪpɪtəs]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain.
(a.) Headlong; as, precipitous fall.
(a.) Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts.
校對:雷明顿
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Steep, abrupt.[2]. Hasty, rash, heady, headlong, precipitate, reckless, indiscreet.
編輯:西娅
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Steep, headlong, abrupt, sheer, perpendicular, beetling, rash, dangerous
ANT:Shallow, graduated, inclined, undulating
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例句/造句/用法:
- One of his favourite amusements, we are told, was the expensive one of rolling elephants down precipitous places in order to watch their sufferings. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was fortified both on the top and on the rocky and precipitous sides. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Beyond that the hills become precipitous. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Still he went on, for his mind was as utterly narrowed into that precipitous crevice of play as if he had been the most ignorant lounger there. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I gave it her; and she regarded the now visible, but precipitous steps, as if calculating her capacity to descend. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- The arid island of Malta came in sight, and they saw its precipitous shores rising sternly from the tideless waters. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Captain Lennox and another lately married officer shared a villa, high up on the beautiful precipitous rocks overhanging the sea. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- On the east side of the ridge, which is quite precipitous, is a ravine running first north, then westerly, terminating at Baker's Creek. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipt, and she fell into the rapid stream. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
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