参考词典中precipitous的常规释义:
基本释义
- a. 陡峭的,急躁的
词形变化
- 名 词:pre·cip'i·tous·ness副 词:pre·cip'i·tous·ly
参考例句
- a precipitous drop in commodity prices.
商品价格急剧下跌。 - We finally clambered up the precipitous cliff.
我们终于登上了险峻的峭壁。 - their precipitous decision to leave.
他们要离开的仓促决定。 - a precipitous bluff.
多悬崖的绝壁 - A precipitous path led down the cliff.
悬崖往下引入一条陡峭的山路。
- a precipitous drop in commodity prices.
英英解释
3个形容词解释
- done with very great haste and without due deliberation
[同] hasty, overhasty, precipitant, precipitate, precipitous
[例]- hasty marriage seldom proveth well
- hasty makeshifts take the place of planning
- rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion
- wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in de
- characterized by precipices
[例]- a precipitous bluff
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- extremely steep
[同] abrupt, precipitous, sharp
[例]- an abrupt canyon
- the precipitous rapids of the upper river
- the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings
- a sharp drop
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