precipice如何读

英：[ˈpresəpɪs]

美：[ˈprɛsəpɪs]

precipice是什么意思

n. (名词)
  1. 绝壁
  2. 悬崖
  3. 断崖
  4. 危急的处境
  5. 灾难的边缘
  6. 峭壁
  7. 断崖边
  8. 危地
  9. 危机
  10. 岩
  11. 深渊
  12. 险境

precipice自然拼读

prec·i·pice

pre sih pihs

precipice变形

复数:precipices

precipice扩展

precipiced (adj.)

precipice英英释义

noun

a steep cliff.The climber made slow but steady progress up the precipice.

the verge of danger.

precipice词源中文解释

1630年代，“岩石的非常陡峭或垂直的面”，源自法语 précipice，源自拉丁语 praecipitium “陡峭的地方”，字面意思是“跌落或跳跃，跌落或头朝下”，源自 praeceps（属格 praecipitis）“陡峭的，头朝下的，头朝前的”，源自 prae “在前面，在前面”（见 pre-) + caput “头”（源自 PIE 词根 *kaput- “头”）。比喻地，“危险的位置”，在1650年代之前。在英语中，早期作为一个动词（1590年代）的意思是“跌落到很深的地方”。

precipice词源英文解释

French, from Middle French, from Latin praecipitium, from praecipit-, praeceps headlong, from prae- + caput head — more at head

The first known use of precipice was in 1613

precipice儿童词典英英释义

precipitousadjective

showing unwise and unnecessary haste : rash

a precipitous act

steep like a precipice

a precipitous slope

precipitousadjective

showing unwise and unnecessary haste : rash

a precipitous act

steep like a precipice

a precipitous slope

precipitate1 of 3verb

to throw violently : hurl

to fall headlong

to bring about suddenly

an event that precipitated war

to separate or cause to separate from solution or suspension

to change from a vapor to a liquid or solid and fall as rain or snow

precipitate2 of 3noun

a usually solid substance separated from a solution or suspension by chemical or physical change

precipitate3 of 3adjective

hasty sense 2

a precipitate attack

precipitationnoun

unwise haste

the process of precipitating or of forming a precipitate

water or the amount of water that falls to the earth as hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow

precipitate1 of 3verb

to throw violently : hurl

to fall headlong

to bring about suddenly

an event that precipitated war

to separate or cause to separate from solution or suspension

to change from a vapor to a liquid or solid and fall as rain or snow

precipitate2 of 3noun

a usually solid substance separated from a solution or suspension by chemical or physical change

precipitate3 of 3adjective

hasty sense 2

a precipitate attack

precipitate1 of 3verb

to throw violently : hurl

to fall headlong

to bring about suddenly

an event that precipitated war

to separate or cause to separate from solution or suspension

to change from a vapor to a liquid or solid and fall as rain or snow

precipitate2 of 3noun

a usually solid substance separated from a solution or suspension by chemical or physical change

precipitate3 of 3adjective

hasty sense 2

a precipitate attack

precipitate1 of 3verb

to throw violently : hurl

to fall headlong

to bring about suddenly

an event that precipitated war

to separate or cause to separate from solution or suspension

to change from a vapor to a liquid or solid and fall as rain or snow

precipitate2 of 3noun

a usually solid substance separated from a solution or suspension by chemical or physical change

precipitate3 of 3adjective

hasty sense 2

a precipitate attack

precipitate1 of 3verb

to throw violently : hurl

to fall headlong

to bring about suddenly

an event that precipitated war

to separate or cause to separate from solution or suspension

to change from a vapor to a liquid or solid and fall as rain or snow

precipitate2 of 3noun

a usually solid substance separated from a solution or suspension by chemical or physical change

precipitate3 of 3adjective

hasty sense 2

a precipitate attack

precipitate1 of 3verb

to throw violently : hurl

to fall headlong

to bring about suddenly

an event that precipitated war

to separate or cause to separate from solution or suspension

to change from a vapor to a liquid or solid and fall as rain or snow

precipitate2 of 3noun

a usually solid substance separated from a solution or suspension by chemical or physical change

precipitate3 of 3adjective

hasty sense 2

a precipitate attack

precipicenoun

a very steep and high face of a rock or mountain

precipice 例句

1 Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is hig: cool : [ b ] h .

不要因为峭壁是高的,便让你的爱情坐在 峭壁 上.

2 They have seen many sheer precipice and overhanging rocks in the Huangshan Mountains.

他们在黄山看见了许多悬崖峭壁.

3 Reynie had a panicky feeling in his belly, the kind he always got when he dreamed he’d fallen from a precipice.

4 “It’s that looking over the precipice and seeing nothing but sky, and hoping that when you jump off, you can fly.”

5 The country's economy was on the edge of the precipice.

该国的经济已处于崩溃的边缘.

6 Down the face of a precipice, sheer and almost smooth it seemed in the pale moonlight, a small black shape was moving with its thin limbs splayed out.

7 Think of the instant a piece of fruit is at peak ripeness, just before it teeters on the precipice of pruniness.

8 This latest tax increase may push many small companies over the financial precipice.

最近的这次增税可能会使许多小公司的财务堕入险境。

9 Do not seat you love upon a precipice because it is high.

不要因为峭壁高耸,就让你的爱情坐在那上头.

10 Don't venture too near the edge of the precipice.

不要冒险太接近悬崖的边缘.

11 And they went up by steep ways, until they came to a high field below the snows that clad the lofty peaks, and it looked down over the precipice that stood behind the City.

12 Poised on the precipice of a PR blitz, Garbage saw their album lost amidst the world's understandable grief.

13 Wild flowers and old pines the precipice, with birdsamong, form a beautiful scene and vitality.

这里山花古松遮掩着悬崖峭壁, 鸟语花香,生意昂然, 一派秀丽景色.

14 If Dano’s Wilson is the manic genius teetering on the precipice, Cusack’s performance presents an entirely different persona — one we meet many years later as he’s crawling out of the hole he has fallen into.

15 The path verges the edge of a precipice.

在断崖不明显的地方,两边的环境可能总是相同的.

16 “What I know is that you are the smell of frightened girlhood just as it teeters over the precipice of the change,” King writes.

17 I catch his tongue poised on the precipice between his front teeth.

18 “She made a bargain with me up there, on the side of the precipice,” he said.

19 (figurative)The country was now on the edge of a precipice (= very close to disaster) .

这个国家现在情势岌岌可危。

20 “Now, on the precipice of a new chapter, we are stronger and we are filled with gratitude for all that we learned and experienced together.”

precipice 同义词

1 危机

pass crisis clutch crunch juncture conjuncture climacteric razor-edge zero hour turning point breaking point great divide critical head moment push pinch exigence showdown critical moment crisic edge flap Dunkirk the change of tide

2 悬崖

cliff brow bluff rimrock clift linn khud crag cornice promontory scarp steep drop-off palisade escarpment krantz pali jump-up krans edge scar escarp heugh

3 险境

razor-edge jaw strait trouble

4 危险境地

jaw

5 绝境

extremity abyss cul-de-sac impasse

6 绝壁

bluff cliff barranco barranca steep palisade precipitous perpendicular linn khud krantz heugh

7 峭壁

cliff palisade crag steep scar bluff krantz jump-up rock krans linn edge Cliff escarpment brow perpendicular barranca

precipice 短语相关

on the edge of a precipice

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