precipices

英 [ˈprɛsɪpɪsɪz]

美 [ˈprɛsəpəsɪz]

n.  悬崖; 绝壁
precipice的复数

柯林斯词典

• 悬崖；峭壁
  Aprecipiceis a very steep cliff on a mountain.
• N-COUNT 险境；危局；绝境
  If you say that someone is on the edge of aprecipice, 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。

双语例句

• ( 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。
• Yunnan Grottoes and Bas-reliefs on Precipices
  云南石窟与摩崖造像艺术
• 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。
• 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。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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？
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。