escarpment
n. 悬崖；绝壁；陡坡
n.
悬崖；断崖；绝壁；陡斜坡
变形
复数：escarpments
英英释义
escarpment[ i'skɑ:pmənt ]
n.
a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion
同义词：scarp
a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification
同义词：escarpscarpprotective embankment
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
Warm tip: Watch out for escarpment.
温馨敬告：坡陡，注意安全。
The fox went to ground under a rocky escarpment.
狐狸钻进了石崖下面的洞里。
There was an escarpment about 150 meters to our right.
在我们右侧大约150米的地方是一处悬崖。
权威例句
Soil production on a retreating escarpment in southeastern AustraliaBiological communities at the Florida escarpment resemble hydrothermal vent taxa
Malta Escarpment fault zone offshore eastern Sicily: Pliocene㏎uaternary tectonic evolution based on new multichannel seismic data
Escarpment evolution on high‐elevation rifted margins: Insights derived from a surface processes model that combines diffusion, adv...
Slow rates of rock surface erosion and sediment production across the Namib Desert and Escarpment, Southern Africa
Denudational history along a transect across the Drakensberg Escarpment of southern Africa derived from apatite fission track thermo...
Indicators of Methane-Derived Carbonates and Chemosynthetic Organic Carbon Deposits: Examples from the Florida Escarpment
Phylogenetic relationships of toads in the Bufo bufo species group from the eastern escarpment of the Tibetan Plateau: a case of vic...
A wind-tunnel investigation of the wind speed and turbulence characteristics close to the ground over various escarpment shapes
Landslide susceptibility assessment using “weights-of-evidence” applied to a study area at the Jurassic escarpment (SW-Germany)
escarpment (n.)
1802, from French escarpment, from escarper "make into a steep slope," from escarpe "slope," from Italian scarpa (see scarp). Earlier in same sense was escarp.
1. The fox went to ground under a rocky escarpment.
狐狸钻进了悬崖下面的洞里。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
2. continental escarpment
陆崖
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
3. marginal escarpment
陆缘陡坡
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
4. erosional escarpment
侵蚀陡崖
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
5. a perpendicular escarpment;
垂直的峭壁;
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译样例
6. Niagara Escarpment
尼加拉陡崖
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
7. A thin, resistant limestone escarpment is present just basinward.
薄层状的坚硬的石灰岩山崖正好位于靠盆地一侧。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
8. Great Escarpment
大陡崖
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]
9. By coincidence or other wise, the largest channel is exposed in the Beaver Divide escarpment.
由于巧合或其他原因，最大通道在比佛迪维特陡壁区出露的位置。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
10. A steep slope or cliff;an escarpment.
急坡，峭壁急斜坡或陡坡；悬崖峭壁
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
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