chasm
chasm 英 [ˈkæzəm] 美 [ˈkæzəm]
n. 峡谷；裂口；分歧；深坑
名词复数:chasms
- A chasm is a deep divide, either literal or figurative, such as a giant chasm in an ice cap or the growing chasm between two friends who haven't spoken in a long time.
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- n. 峡谷；裂口；分歧；深坑
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1. The tourists luxuriated in the beauties of the chasm.
游客们尽情地享受这个峡谷的美景。
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2. The answer is thatpotential cures, or at least treatments, are stuck in the chasm between ascientific discovery and the doctor's office: what's been called the valley ofdeath.
答案是潜在的治愈方法或者至少是治疗方法都被困在一个科学发现与医生办公室之间的峡谷中，这被称作死亡之谷。
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3. Luckily she had brought a rope with her, and making a noose at one end, she flung it across the chasm with all her might.
幸运的是，她带了一根绳子。 在绳子一端做了一个套索，她使出吃奶的劲儿将套索扔向峡谷对面。
- chasm (n.) 1590s, "deep crack in the earth," from Latin chasma, from Greek khasma "yawning hollow, gulf," related to khaskein "to yawn," and thus to chaos. In English in 17c. often spelled chasma. Figurative use, of a great interruption or wide breach of any kind, is from 1640s. Related: Chasmy (1786); chasmal (1842, Poe); chasmic (1885). The bloody chasm (1868) was an old rhetorical phrase for the American Civil War.
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