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chasm

/kaz-uhm/US // ˈkæz əm //UK // (ˈkæzəm) //

鸿沟,深渊,深谷,峡谷

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a yawning fissure or deep cleft in the earth's surface; gorge.
    • : a breach or wide fissure in a wall or other structure.
    • : a marked interruption of continuity; gap: a chasm in time.
    • : a sundering breach in relations, as a divergence of opinions, beliefs, etc., between persons or groups.

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Examples

  • The Wizards lost, 119-97, to the Hornets after falling into yet another first-half hole — they have felt more like chasms lately — this one a 21-point deficit.

  • The chasm in the party between its base and its elected leaders in Washington can be traced back to the cracks that emerged about a decade ago.

  • Some of them appear to have erupted from volcanic pits or chasms within the last few million years, perhaps even within the last few tens of thousands of years.

  • Allen and Cummings crossed lines that in America today increasingly resemble a chasm.

  • A chasm had opened between me and my skin, as though I were fumbling around in a too-big pair of gloves.

  • Over the next few years, a chasm would open up between the Party and the KGB, culminating with the failed coup in August 1991.

  • I was writing a cover story for ‬Newsweek‪ about the chasm between white and black understandings of the Martin case.

  • The result in all three cases is a chasm between image and performance that magnifies the narrative of dashed expectations.

  • Inching towards the opposing positions will never bridge the yawning chasm between them.

  • The vast chasm between these two groups and regular Republicans is something that Republican lawmakers can't easily bridge.

  • At a distance of four miles from the colony, a waterfall foams down a chasm which it has worn away for itself.

  • The procession, preceded by Bob on his feathered steed, passed through a chasm overgrown with brambles.

  • In most cases the roofs over these sea caves fall in, so that the structure is known as a chasm.

  • Two miles to the east the San Juan burst out of a defile of sandstone, and a mile to the west it disappeared in a similar chasm.

  • He was in a chasm, twenty-five hundred feet below the average surface of the earth, the floor of which was a swift river.