cleft
cleft 英 [kleft] 美 [klɛft]
adj. 分裂的；劈开的 n. 裂缝；龟裂 v. 劈开；分开（cleave的过去式和过去分词）
名词复数:clefts
- If you're looking for an indentation or opening in something, you're looking for a cleft (noun). A person with a cleft (adjective) chin has a little dent in the middle of their chin. Most superheroes have one.
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- adj. 分裂的；劈开的
- n. 裂缝；龟裂
- v. 劈开；分开（cleave的过去式和过去分词）
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1. We suspect he also had a partially cleft palate, another congenital defect.
我们怀疑他还有部分腭裂，这也是一种先天性缺陷。
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2. They provide cleft lip and heart surgeries to orphans in China so they can be adopted.
他们为中国的唇裂及心脏病孤儿提供手术，以便他们能够被收养。
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3. His features also began to be altered by plastic surgery. His nose slimmed down, a cleft appeared in his chin, his eyelids reputedly were lifted and his lips thinned.
他的容貌特征似乎也受到了整容手术的影响，鼻子变小，下巴出现一道缝，人们普遍觉得他的眼睑被上拉，而嘴唇变薄了。
- cleft (adj.) "split, cloven," late 14c., past-participle adjective from cleave (v.1)). Cleft palate attested from 1828.
- cleft (n.) 1570s, alteration (by influence of cleft, new weak past participle of cleave (v.1)), of Middle English clift "fissure, rift, space or opening made by cleaving" (early 14c.), from Old English geclyft (adj.) "split, cloven," from Proto-Germanic *kluftis (compare Old High German chluft, German Kluft, Danish kløft "cleft, fissure, gap"), from PIE root *gleubh- "to tear apart, cleave." In Middle English anatomy, it meant "the parting of the thighs" (early 14c.).
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