cleave
cleave 英 [kli:v] 美 [kliv]
vi. 裂开；披荆斩棘地前进；粘住；坚持 vt. 砍开；使分开；打通
进行时:cleaving 过去式:cleaved 过去分词:cleaved 第三人称单数:cleaves 名词复数:cleaves
- Cleave, a verb, has two very different meanings. It can describe cutting or splitting something apart with a sharp instrument, or — oddly enough — it can describe sticking to something like glue.
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- vi. 裂开；披荆斩棘地前进；粘住；坚持
- vt. 砍开；使分开；打通
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1. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
（细拉）你以江河分开大地。
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2. Would I cleave tightly to my rational principles and fillet your tiny mind of any belief in an omniscient deity, benevolent or otherwise, from the very start?
我会坚持自己理性的原则，从一开始就用全知的慈善的神来束缚你小小的头脑吗？
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3. He could sense the right place to hit so that the rock crust would cleave and reveal the coal, in the same way that a sculptor can sense exactly where to hammer a chisel into a stone.
他可以感觉到正确的敲击位置，这样岩石的外壳就会裂开显出煤矿，正如雕塑家可以精确知道在石头的什么位置而用凿子敲击一样。
- cleave (v.1) "to split, part or divide by force," Old English cleofan, cleven, cliven "to split, separate" (class II strong verb, past tense cleaf, past participle clofen), from Proto-Germanic *kleuban (source also of Old Saxon klioban, Old Norse kljufa, Danish klöve, Dutch kloven, Old High German klioban, German klieben "to cleave, split"), from PIE root *gleubh- "to tear apart, cleave."
- cleave (v.2) "to adhere, cling," Middle English cleven, clevien, cliven, from Old English clifian, cleofian "to stick fast, adhere," also figurative, from West Germanic *klibajan (source also of Old Saxon klibon, Old High German kliban, Dutch kleven, Old High German kleben, German kleben "to stick, cling, adhere"), from PIE *gloi- "to stick" (see clay).
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