escarpment

• n. 懸崖；絕壁；陡坡

e-, 緩音字母。scarp, 懸崖。

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 truck was trundling along the escarpment of the Zambesi valley.

卡車沿著讚比西山穀的絕壁緩緩行進。

來自柯林斯例句

2. A shelf of land extended from the escarpment.

懸崖上凸出一塊空地。

來自柯林斯例句

3. A thin, resistant limestone escarpment is present just basinward.

薄層狀的堅硬的石灰岩山崖正好位於靠盆地一側.

來自辭典例句

4. By coincidence or other wise, the largest channel is exposed in the Beaver Divide escarpment.

由於巧合或其他原因, 最大通道在比佛迪維特陡壁區出露的位置.

來自辭典例句

5. The fox went to ground under a rocky escarpment.

狐狸鑽進了懸崖下麵的洞裏.

來自互聯網