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cliff

/klif/US // klɪf //UK // (klɪf) //

悬崖,峭壁,悬崖峭壁,崖壁

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • “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.