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vt. 看穿；彻底了解；测量…的深度
n. 英寻（测量水深的长度单位）
n.
英寻；
vt.
理解…的真意；推测，领会；测深；
变形
复数：fathomsfathom过去式：fathomed过去分词：fathomed现在分词：fathoming第三人称单数：fathoms
英英释义
fathom[ 'fæðəm ]
n.
a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth
同义词：fthm
(mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore
同义词：fthm
v.
come to understand
同义词：penetratebottom
measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line
同义词：sound
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
The ship sank in four fathoms.
这条船沉下四英寻。
用作不及物动词(vi.)
This kind of love is difficult to fathom, but it's fundamentally reliable.
虽然很难去测量这种爱有多深，但是它却完全可以信赖。
用作及物动词(vt.)
I cannot fathom his meaning.
我不能彻底了解他的意思。
He dipped the stick into the water to fathom its depth.
他把棍条浸入水中，试探水的深度。
权威例句
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The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom:
Spring-Summer Diet of Lake Trout on Six Fathom Bank and Yankee Reef in Lake Huron
Status of Lake Trout Rehabilitation on Six Fathom Bank and Yankee Reef in Lake Huron
The thermal variability of the waters of Fathom Five National Marine Park, Lake Huron.
Lake Trout Spawning Habitat in the Six Fathom Bank-Yankee Reef Lake Trout Sanctuary, Lake Huron
On the Fauna and Bottom-Deposits near the Thirty-Fathom Line from the Eddystone Grounds to Start Point
Decapod crustacean fauna of Seven and One-Half Fathom Reef, Texas: Species composition, abundance, and species diversity
fathom
fathom: [OE] The underlying etymological meaning of fathom appears to be ‘stretching out, spreading’. It probably comes ultimately from the Indo-European base *pot-, *pet-, which also produced Latin patēre ‘be open’ (source of English patent) and Greek pétalos ‘outspread’ (source of English petal). Its Germanic descendant was *fath-, which produced the noun *fathmaz, direct ancestor of Old English fæthm.Here, the notion of ‘stretching out’ seems to have spread via ‘stretching out the arms’ to, on the one hand ‘embrace’ (and one meaning of Old English fæthm was ‘embrace, bosom’), and on the other ‘length spanned by outstretched arms’ – about six feet.=> patent, petal
fathom (n.)
Old English fæðm "length of the outstretched arm" (a measure of about six feet), also "arms, grasp, embrace," and, figuratively "power," from Proto-Germanic *fathmaz "embrace" (cognates: Old Norse faðmr "embrace, bosom," Old Saxon fathmos "the outstretched arms," Dutch vadem "a measure of six feet"), from PIE *pot(ə)-mo-, from root *petə- "to spread, stretch out" (see pace (n.)). It has apparent cognates in Old Frisian fethem, German faden "thread," which OED explains by reference to "spreading out." As a unit of measure, in an early gloss it appears for Latin passus, which was about 5 feet.
fathom (v.)
Old English fæðmian "to embrace, surround, envelop," from a Proto-Germanic verb derived from the source of fathom (n.); cognates: Old High German fademon, Old Norse faþma. The meaning "take soundings" is from c. 1600; its figurative sense of "get to the bottom of, penetrate with the mind, understand" is from 1620s. Related: Fathomed; fathoming.
1. A sea kayaker navigates the rocks around Flowerpot Island in Ontario's Fathom Five National Marine Park.
在安大略省的五英寻国家海洋公园里，一名海上皮划艇运动员在花盆岛周围的岩石间穿行。
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2. We're trying to fathom out what's going on.
我们正在努力弄清楚发生了什么事。
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3. He couldn't fathom out what the man could possibly mean.
他弄不清这个男人的意思。
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4. I really couldn't fathom what Steiner was talking about.
我真的不明白斯坦纳在说什么。
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5. It is hard to fathom the pain felt at the death of a child.
丧子之痛是难以体会的。
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6. Dear Humans can you fathom this?
亲爱的人类，你们能真正明白这点吗？
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7. This success is not hard to fathom.
这次胜利很难说清有多大。
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8. Recording reflections you could not fathom.
记录下你无法理解的映像。
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9. Years... I did not begin to fathom what they truly.
我一开始并没苦思冥想其真正表达的。
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10. Rio Tinto's relations with China are hard to fathom.
力拓公司与中国的关系真是难以琢磨。
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11. One lifetime and a camera is not enough to fathom it.
人的一生和一台照相机不足以完全了解它。
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12. In other respects their relationship is harder to fathom.
而在其他方面，双方的关系却很难摸清。
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13. Eg1. He dipped the stick into the water to fathom its depth.
他把棍条浸入水中，试探水的深度。
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14. They have been here far before I could fathom an Afghanistan.
他们在我彻底看清阿富汗人的之前更久就已经居住在这儿了。
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15. Should the price of rice spike, it's hard to fathom why they wouldn't.
理应根据水稻穗的价格，无法猜测他们为什么不卖给更高的出价者。
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16. Thus, the deep-six is the deepest fathom, the final 6 feet at the bottom of the ocean.
因此，“deep - six”指的就是最深最长的英寻，也就是距海底最近的6英尺。
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17. Thus, the deep six is the deepest fathom... the final six feet at the bottom of the ocean.
因此，deepsix是指最深的英寻，也就是说海洋底部最后6英尺。
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18. Now, it's all about penetrating these weird markets that we can't even fully fathom yet.
现在，我们关心的全部是这些怪诞的市场，对它，我们甚至还不能完全搞清楚。
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19. With 6.8 billion people alive today, it's hard to fathom that humans were ever imperiled.
今天地球上生活着68亿人，所以你可能很难想象人类竟然差点儿灭绝。
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20. None of us will fully fathom the great truths of life until we finally unite with eternity at death.
我们当中也没人能洞悉生命的伟大真理，除非我们最终在死后与永恒相联合。
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21. T's hard to fathom just how badly these signature features of the American brand have been discredited.
很难去探究美国品牌的自身特色遭到了多么严重的损害。
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22. As a career-oriented new-millennium woman, I could not fathom my housewife mother-in-law when we first met.
作为一个新世纪的职业女性，我不可能一眼看穿我的家庭主妇岳母。
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23. As a career-oriented new-millennium woman, I could not fathom my housewife mother-in-law when we first met.
作为一个新世纪的职业女性，我不可能一眼看穿我的家庭主妇岳母。
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