cave
cave 英 [keɪv] 美 [kev]
n. 洞穴，窑洞
进行时:caving 过去式:caved 过去分词:caved 第三人称单数:caves 名词复数:caves
- A cave is hollow space underground that's big enough for a person to walk or crawl into. People who explore caves often wear battery-powered headlamps.
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- n. 洞穴，窑洞
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1. the mouth of the cave
洞口
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2. I live with my family in this cave.
我们一家住在这个洞穴里。
- cave (n.) "a hollow place in the earth, a natural cavity of considerable size and extending more or less horizontally," early 13c., from Old French cave "a cave, vault, cellar" (12c.), from Latin cavea "hollow" (place), noun use of neuter plural of adjective cavus "hollow," from PIE root *keue- "to swell," also "vault, hole." Replaced Old English eorðscrafu.
- cave (v.) early 15c., caven, "to hollow something out," from cave (n.). Modern sense "to collapse in or down" is 1707, American English, presumably from East Anglian dialectal calve "collapse, fall in and leave a hollow," which is perhaps from Flemish and subsequently was influenced by cave (n.). Transitive sense by 1762. Related: Caved; caving. Figurative sense of "yield to pressure" is from 1837.
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