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kloof

/kloof/US // kluf //UK // (kluːf) //

差距,间隙,空隙,空白

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a deep glen; ravine.

Examples

  • The houses seemed to be tumbling over one another in a "kloof."

  • Nor was there any in the carrying it out; for, as with the camp in the kloof, all were now eager to move away from this one.

  • Most of the effects intended for removal had been got down on the second day, the waggons alone remaining in the kloof.

  • A dense cloud of dust is rolling down the kloof, and through it can be seen a forest of bristling horns, a sea of rolling eyes.

  • So they turned inland and rode towards that very kloof where years before Suzanne had discovered the shipwrecked boy.