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fathom

/fath-uhm/US // ˈfæð əm //UK // (ˈfæðəm) //

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural fath·oms, fath·om.

    • : a unit of length equal to six feet: used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to measure the depth of by means of a sounding line; sound.
    • : to penetrate to the truth of; comprehend; understand: to fathom someone's motives.

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Examples

  • Perhaps, instead, they had reached a desperation we can't quite fathom.

  • The celebrity of Li is hard to fathom in terms that American fans—tennis savvy or not—can fully comprehend.

  • As a powerful woman she presents problems for men trying to fathom her.

  • Now, my daughter is older and I can barely fathom that she is a teenager.

  • Now another monologue, also spoken by a woman who has experienced more than most can fathom, has left me entranced and devastated.

  • There were to be many things yet which Felipe could not fathom in this lovely, sorrowing, sunny sister of his.

  • This is some passing whim of your wife, due to some cause or causes which you and I needn't try to fathom.

  • There is no protection there for the ships against submarines except Enos harbour and Enos is only one fathom deep.

  • From the portress Cibot to the Marquise d'Espard, not one of his women has an evil thought that he does not fathom.

  • Maud Barrington's eyes were grateful, but there was something that Winston could not fathom behind her smile.