precipice

音标发音

• 英式音标 ['presipis'presɪpɪs]
• 美式音标 [ˈpres.ə.pɪs]
• 国际音标 ['presipis]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.断崖；绝壁；险境

词根记忆

• pre(前面) + cip(落下) + ice→小龙女当着杨过的面落下了断肠崖→悬崖

同根派生

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英汉例句

• They were perilously close to the edge of the precipice.
  他们离悬崖边很近,十分危险.
• A slight carelessness on this precipice could cost a man his life.
  在这悬崖上稍一疏忽,就会使人丧生.
• 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.
• 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。
• The hut hung half over the edge of the precipice.
  那间小屋有一半悬在峭壁边上.

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词组短语

短语

• soil precipice 土崖
• Precipice piece 的石头
• Abyssal Precipice 深渊绝壁
• A Precipice 到悬崖边
• Great Precipice 大峭壁

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英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a very steep side of a cliff or a mountain

柯林斯英英字典

• A precipice is a very steep cliff on a mountain.
• 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.

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• precipice柯林斯字典

专业释义

地球科学

• 悬崖