precipice

英式音标：[ˈpresəpɪs]播放读音

美式音标：[ˈprɛsəpɪs]播放读音

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概况：

n. 悬崖；绝壁；险境

词义：

n.

悬崖，峭壁；

变形

复数：precipices

英英释义

precipice[ 'presipis ]

n.a very steep cliff

用法：

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

The path verges on the edge of a precipice.
这条小径濒临断崖的边缘。

权威例句

Precipice or Crossroads?

Land resources : on the edge of the Malthusian precipice?

A Robust Visual Odometry and Precipice Detection System Using Consumer-grade Monocular Vision

A Robust Visual Odometry and Precipice Detection System Using Consumer-grade Monocular Vision

Between Being and Nothingness: The "Astonishing Precipice"of Virginia Woolf's Night and Day

Changes In The Terms Of Trade For Agriculture: New Plateau Or New Precipice

CHANGES IN THE TERMS OF TRADE FOR AGRICULTURE: NEW PLATEAU OR NEW PRECIPICE

Effective process or dangerous precipice: qualitative comparative embedded case study with young people with epilepsy and their pare...

Introduction and conclusions for a Discussion entitled Land resources: on the edge of the Malthusian precipice?

Phreatic drainage conduits within quartz sandstone: Evidence from the Jurassic Precipice Sandstone, Carnarvon Range, Queensland, Aus...

同义词：rimrock,krantz,escarpment,clift,cliff,bluff

英语词源：

precipice

precipice: [16] The etymological notion underlying precipice is of falling ‘headlong’. It comes via French précipice from Latin praecipitium ‘headlong fall, steep place’. This was derived from praecipitāre ‘throw headlong’ (source of English precipitate [16] and precipitous [17]), a verb based on the adjective praeceps ‘headlong, steep’. This in turn was a compound formed from the prefix prae- ‘in front’ and caput ‘head’ (source of English capital, captain, etc).=> capital, captain, chief

precipice (n.)

"steep face of rock," 1630s, from Middle French précipice, from Latin praecipitium "a steep place," literally "a fall or leap," from praeceps (genitive praecipitis) "steep, headlong, headfirst," from prae "before, forth" (see pre-) + caput "head" (see head (n.)). Earlier in English as a verb (1590s) meaning "fall to great depth."

造句：

1. In the morning sunshine a precipice shone forth beyond the gulf.

晨曦中，一座悬崖在深渊的对岸闪耀着光辉。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. be [stand] on the edge [brink] of a precipice

濒临危机

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

3. Britain was speeding towards an economic precipice.

英国正快速走向一场经济灾难。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

4. I stood on the edge of a precipice.

我的处境是汲汲可危的。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

5. He nearly fell off the precipice.

他差一点从悬崖上掉下去。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

6. Both the upper and lower sandstone units of the precipice are oil-bearing.

普雷西皮斯的上部和下部砂岩单元都含油。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

7. Watching him climb up the precipice, everybody was breathless with anxiety.

看着他往悬崖上爬, 大家都捏一把汗。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

8. Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice.

他觉得时间在沉重地向前爬行，而他自己却在被一阵妖风刮向某一黑色断崖的锯齿形边缘上。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

9. The path verges on the edge of a precipice.

这条小径濒临断崖的边缘。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

10. She threw herself from the precipice.

她从岩上跳了下去。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句