| 词汇 | cliff |
| 释义 | cliff noun[ C ] uk /klɪf/ us /klɪf/ B1 a high area of rock with a very steep side, often on a coast: （常指海岸的）悬崖，峭壁 Keep away from the edge of the cliff - you might fall.离悬崖边远一点——会掉下去的。 the cliff edge峭壁边缘 Ben Pruchnie /Getty Images News/GettyImages They built a house at the foot of a cliff.他们在悬崖脚下建了一所房子。 The car skidded and plunged headlong over the cliff.汽车一打滑，从悬崖上冲了下去。 Sand carried by the wind has hollowed out the base of the cliff.风挟带的沙子将悬崖的底部掏空了。 Come away from that cliff edge! You're giving me the jitters!别站在悬崖边上！你把我吓坏了！ Harold jumped out of the car just before it went over the cliff.就在汽车从悬崖边翻落下去之前，哈罗德从车里跳了出来。 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 Idiomfall off a cliff cliff | American Dictionarycliff noun[ C ] us/klɪf/ a high area of rock with a steep side, often on a coast Examples of cliffcliff The lithostratigraphy of the cores has been precisely correlated with the nearby cliff section, which has also been examined and re-described. Distinct layers of firn were observed to the south, where the ice cap ends in a small cliff of 19 m in height. This may be why many of them have taken to nesting on more or less sheer cliffs, which the bears cannot climb up. These hedge in the entire sea, so that no opening can be seen anywhere; they are higher than lofty mountains and resemble steep, overhanging cliffs. A fitness cliff model could potentially explain the core dilemma of psychiatric genetics. The limestone bands weather proud in cliff exposures. It is worth noting that the appearance of an overhanging cliff is easily achieved by only a small change in the second temperature profile. His wife brought his body halfway up a cliff. I'd rather keep running to the end and then jump off the cliff. The deer runs towards a cliff, stops, tips his head and the boy falls into a pond. Along the cliff tops, the main vegetation type is grassland. While they were sleeping, after the lamps were extinguished, the raven started dancing and jumping on the iglus and on the cliff. The ice cliff itself nowhere showed any stepped formation. The location was spectacular, with the performers on top of, or half-way up, a cliff which drops to a lagoon. The performance took place along a cliff top which dropped to a lagoon protected from the ocean by a thick sand dune. 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. Collocations withcliffcliffThese are words often used in combination with cliff. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. chalk cliff A chalk cliff face at the back of the cove slows further erosion. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. cliff dwellings Moving in from dispersed farmsteads into community centers at pueblos canyon heads or cliff dwellings on canyon shelves. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. cliff face Several mosaics were acquired of the cliffface from a distance of about 300 m, and the computer automatically determined the three most interesting points in each mosaic. 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. See all collocations with cliff |
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