precipices

英 [ˈprɛsɪpɪsɪz] 美 [ˈprɛsəpəsɪz]
precipices
n.  悬崖; 绝壁
precipice的复数

  1. 悬崖;峭壁
    A precipice is a very steep cliff on a mountain.
    1. N-COUNT 险境;危局;绝境
      If you say that someone is on the edge of a precipice, you mean that they are in a dangerous situation in which they are extremely close to disaster or failure.
      1. I was beginning to admit to myself that our marriage was rolling toward the edge of a precipice...
        我内心开始承认我们的婚姻正走向危险的边缘。
      2. The King now stands on the brink of a political precipice.
        国王现在处于政治上岌岌可危的境地。
    1. Among all the unfathomable precipices which surrounded him, which was his choice?
      处在四周被深不可测的悬崖围困之中,他的选择是什么?
    2. They were in fine spirits Friday as they left Aconcagua, whose sheer precipices and bitter cold have claimed more than 100 climbers 'lives.
      他们周五离开阿空加瓜山时,精神状态良好。据悉,该山峰的悬崖断壁和严寒已经造成100多人死亡。
    3. ( of a shore or shoreline) characterized by steep cliffs or precipices.
      (指海岸或者海岸线)以陡峭的悬崖绝壁为特点。
    4. Chen Zhongchun had walked for hours on this treacherous road, between precipices and unstable boulders.
      陈忠春在峭壁和砾石间危险的路上已经徒步数小时。
    5. Historically, many poets and senior monks wrote inscriptions on precipices to express their feelings when they visited famous mountains.
      中国历史上许多诗人和高僧在浪迹名山时皆撒墨于悬崖峭壁上,他们以此来抒发自己的感情。
    6. Two miles up the crumbling precipices seem devoid of life.
      向上两英里,这个满是碎岩的悬崖上看起来没有任何生命。
    7. If you would attain to the mountain-top you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
      若要到达山顶,你必须穿越山谷,爬上陡坡,毫不畏惧危险的悬崖。
    8. Every time that he sinks, he catches glimpses of precipices filled with night, frightful and unknown vegetations seize him, knot about his feet, draw him to them;
      他每次下沉,都隐约看见那黑暗的深渊,一些未曾见过的奇怪植物捉住他,缠着他的脚,把他拉向它们那里去;
    9. The deep blue source precipice that the eight strange precipices stones of world civilization portray is drawn;
      有文明世界八大奇崖石刻画之一的沧源崖画;
    10. Where the water cascaded off precipices in cataracts and crashed into the rock below, it scoured out vast pits several kilometres wide called plunge pools.
      当洪水形成的瀑布从悬崖上奔流直下,击打下面的岩石时,它冲出几公里宽的巨坑,称作瀑布潭。
    11. Yunnan Grottoes and Bas-reliefs on Precipices
      云南石窟与摩崖造像艺术
    12. Inscriptions on precipices means the ancients carved characters in the cliff to record events, which have very important historical material value.
      摩崖石刻是利用天然石壁以刻文纪事,具有重要的史料价值。