cliff 的定义
- a high steep face of a rock.
- a critical point or situation beyond which something bad or undesirable may occur: The committee is right up to the cliff with no deal in sight.
cliff 近义词
overhang on hill or mountain
更多cliff例句
- “People at my agency are hopeful, but are also on the edge of a cliff wondering whether or not leadership is going to take that leap into action,” said a senior planner at one of the larger media agency networks.
- In Vega Baja, January’s hurricane cleared the vegetation covering once unnavigable mountain cliffs, allowing the outfitter 21 Climb and Tour to open the Roca Norte Outdoor Climbing Gym.
- Amid the worst collapse in fossil fuel demand in a century, production has fallen off a cliff.
- These cycles have operated throughout time, yielding the alternating layers of sediment you see in cliffs and road cuts.
- Despite winning four Gold Glove awards, his defensive metrics were surprisingly poor — thus hurting his JAWS ranking — and his performance fell off a cliff quickly as he got older.
- This is where I think the argument against me falls off the cliff.
- Would I like to tell half the people I work with to go jump off a cliff?
- We first met Hajji Zalwar Khan over tea and lunch in the Pech Valley in a house clinging to a cliff high above the valley floor.
- The probe appears to be sitting at the bottom of a "cliff" on the comet, but beyond that it's hard to tell.
- The young goslings' first major life event is to cliff dive down to their parents, as was captured here by BBC cameras.
- Only the petrol tins they took for water right and left of their pathway up the cliff; huge diamonds in the evening sun.
- At dawn half a battalion of Turks tried to make the attack along the top of the cliff and were entirely wiped out.
- One morning Straightshaft climbed the cliff and looked far up and down the valley.
- Then everybody climbed up a hill or a high cliff and watched the coming of the bison.
- There was Cliff Manning, you turned the cold shoulder to him because he couldnt talk grammar.