| 词汇 | rock-face |
| 释义 | rock face noun[ C ] uk /ˈrɒk ˌfeɪs/ us /ˈrɑːk ˌfeɪs/ an area of vertical surface on a large rock or mountain: 垂直岩石表面;岩石纵截面 The path down to the beach was a precarious one, tiny steps hewn out of the sheer rock face.通往下面海滩的路非常危险，是一条在悬崖峭壁上凿出的窄窄的石阶路。 Geography: hills & mountains acclivity alpine tundra clifftop craggy esker highlands hillock Marilyn mesa mid-ocean ridge motte Mount Kilimanjaro pinnacle scarp slope spur steep the Adirondack Mountains the Alaska Range the Alps Examples of rock facerock face The rockface is up to 19m high. The flats could never have been a good place to live because the cruciform was too large, quartered the site and was oppressively close to the 19m high rockface. Indeed, a geological site which is simply a rockface may need no active management at all. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This information comes, as it were, from the rockface. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The circulation has been going on for some 7,000 hours and the temperature of the rockface, which is just short of 100 deg. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Instead of being able to climb the mountain of success, they will come across a rockface that they find hard to scale. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Upon closer inspection it can be seen that the rockface is quarried. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not surprising that, during these years, those involved at the rockface with urban deprivation became alienated towards the programme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will not make use of the tunnel, nor will they consider the question of making use of new tunnels in the rockface there. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have said before that parts of access land are intrinsically dangerous—a high rockface half-way up a fell, for example. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Every time one looks up at a rockface of, say, 300 or 500 feet one does not want to climb it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Within a minute of almost any part of the village is this great rockface. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But, like the strata of a rockface, the layers of government remain solid and immutable, save only to permit of their addition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the vicinity of the village there is a great rockface 80 to 100 feet high, and there is an old quarry which is now covered with grass. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is no reason why negotiations could not obtain opportunities for mountaineers to find the right rockface and to come to an agreement with the landowner. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of rock face These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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