flank
flank 英 [flæŋk] 美 [flæŋk]
n. 侧面；侧翼；侧腹 vt. 守侧面；位于…的侧面；攻击侧面 vi. 侧面与…相接
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- A flank is the side of something, whether of beef or a military formation.
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- n. 侧面；侧翼；侧腹
- vt. 守侧面；位于…的侧面；攻击侧面
- vi. 侧面与…相接
- adv. 在左右两边
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1. It seems to have lost an entire 40-kilometre-long flank in one catastrophic event, say the researchers.
研究人员说，它似乎在一次灾难性事件中已失去了长达40公里的整个侧翼。
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2. The most ominous sign that something big was brewing under the mountain developed on its north side. Within four weeks, this flank bulged out with hitherto unknown speed (see Figure 1).
最明显的征兆是山体下面的北侧在酝酿着某种活动，四个星期之内，这个侧翼以前所未有的速度膨胀出来(见图1)。
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3. Magma can erupt to the surface and form lava flows through the volcano’s summit (frequently forming a crater), but it can also erupt from lava domes and flank vents along the volcano’s sides.
岩浆能喷发出地表，并通过火山峰顶形成熔岩流（大多情况会形成火山口），但它也能通过火山山体侧面的火山岩圆顶和侧面出口喷发出来。
- flank (n.) late Old English flanc "flank, fleshy part of the side," from Old French flanc "hip, side," from Frankish or another Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *hlanca- (source also of Old High German (h)lanca, Middle High German lanke "hip joint," German lenken "to bend, turn aside;" Old English hlanc "loose and empty, slender, flaccid;" Old Norse hlykkr "a bend, noose, loop"), from PIE root *kleng- "to bend, turn" (see link (n.)). Showing characteristic change of Germanic hl- to Romanic fl-. The military sense is first attested 1540s. Meaning "side" of anything is by 1620s. As an adjective, "pertaining to the flank or side," 1660s. Related: Flanked; flanking.
- flank (v.) 1590s (military), "to guard the flank," also, "to menace the flank, fire sideways upon," from flank (n.). Meaning "stand or be placed at the side of" is from 1650s. Related: Flanked; flanking.
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