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cavern

/kav-ern/US // ˈkæv ərn //UK // (ˈkævən) //

洞穴,岩洞,山洞,洞穴里

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cave, especially one that is large and mostly underground.
    • : Pathology. a cavity that is produced by disease, especially one produced in the lungs by tuberculosis.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to enclose in or as if in a cavern.
    • : to hollow out to form a cavern.

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Examples

  • According to the article’s authors, the US Geological Survey should be charged with scanning the country for underground caverns where large amounts of hydrogen could be stored.

  • It’s easy to become disoriented exploring the game’s numerous underwater caverns.

  • As these rocks dissolved, caves and caverns were carved out over an enormous length of time — measured not by the tick-tock of clocks but by the drip-drip of water — forming the Shenandoah Valley caverns we visit today.

  • Professional caving means entering a world more dangerous than any well-trod tourist cavern.

  • The presence of charcoal suggested fire, and the presence of fire deep in an icy cavern suggested human activity.

  • The Beatles Story Museum features a replica of the Cavern Club and a Fab 4D animated cinema show.

  • Next door to the museum is a clone of the Cavern Club, the Beatle Café and the Sala John Lennon stand-up comedy theatre.

  • Her body was covered with a blanket when it was found inside a cavern of the ancient walls, obscuring it from view.

  • Mr. Cunningham's description of the drawings of the natives in a cavern on Clack's Island.

  • It was something which announced itself; a chill breath that seemed to issue from some vast cavern wherein discords waited.

  • I have written at least a dozen about this cavern, and I've described it without even forgetting a single sprig of moss.

  • But at some distance from the cavern he dropped his pipe, and on stooping to pick it up he picked up instead a little satin shoe.

  • Lake Luna was a-glare from the mainland to Cavern Island, and the freight boats had given over running until the spring break-up.