这组词都有“洞”“孔”“穴”的意思。它们的区别在于:hole指任何物体中的开口、穿孔或洞穴; cave指山洞、洞穴或地窖; cavity是科技术语或专门用语,只指坚硬物体上的洞穴,通常表面有开口可见。例如:
The men have dug a hole in the road.那些人在路上挖了一个洞。
The cliff dwellers found that natural caves gave them warmth and protection during the Ice Age.悬岩洞人发现在冰河时代天然的洞穴不仅温暖,还能借以自卫。
The pleural cavity is a body where the lungs are situated.胸膜腔是人体内肺脏所在的地方。
这两个词都可作“洞穴”解。它们的区别在于:cave表示天然的或人为的“洞穴,山洞,窑洞”; cavern则指地下的巨穴或大的钟乳石岩洞,尤指巨大而昏暗的深穴。
这两个词并非同义词。cave的意思是“挖洞,塌陷”,常用作不及物动词; 而cavern作“将…置入洞中,将…挖掘出来”解,用作及物动词。
词源记忆法
来自PIE*keue,膨胀,拱,堆积,词源同accumulate,cumulative.即拱起来的小空间,后指洞穴。
重要短语
cave in塌落;认输
karst cave岩溶洞
cave dwelling窑洞
limestone cave灰岩洞,石灰岩洞
Both boats purred out of the cave mouth and into open water.
两艘船隆隆地从洞口开出,进入了开阔的水域。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》Heedless of time or any other consideration, they began to search the underwater cave.
他们顾不上考虑时间或任何其他因素就开始寻找水下洞穴。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》Armed with the new machine, a search party went into the cave hoping to find buried treasure.
一个探测队以这台新的探宝器为装备, 进了山洞,以期找到掩藏的财宝.
来源:《用法词典》The pirates would often bury gold in the cave and then failed to collect it.
海盗常把金子埋藏在山洞里,而后来又没能取走.
来源:《用法词典》If you go into the cave without waiting for the guide, you do it at your own risk.
如果你不等导游带领而进入山洞, 你就得自担风险.
来源:互联网The limestone is sufficiently fissured for tree roots to have breached the roof of the cave.
石灰岩上有许多缝隙,故而树根能从岩洞顶部长出来。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》在进入一个很深的岩洞之前,光是装配绳梯和建立供应基地就需要八天之久. (makeadescent下降)
来源:《用法词典》But in some respects cave dwellers were far cleverer than us.
但是在某些方面穴居人要比我们聪明得多。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》I had a nervous breakdown, everything just seemed to cave in on top of me.
我曾经有过一次精神崩溃,好像天塌了一样。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
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