landslide
landslide 英 [ˈlændslaɪd] 美 [ˈlændˌslaɪd]
n. [地质] 山崩；大胜利 vi. 发生山崩；以压倒优势获胜
名词复数:landslides
- When dirt and rock from a mountainside coming sliding down, call it a landslide. Another kind of landslide takes place when one candidate soundly defeats another in an election. With either type of landslide, it's probably safest to stay out of the way!
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- n. [地质] 山崩；大胜利
- vi. 发生山崩；以压倒优势获胜
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1. Just what would a landslide on Mars sound like, in the planet's atmosphere, 100 times thinner than Earth's?
火星的大气比地球大气稀薄100倍，那么这次山崩听上去还是那么震耳欲聋吗？
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2. If there is any unexpected change in those surroundings – a landslide, for example – it will not be able to respond.
如果发生一些意想不到的情况——例如山崩——探测器将不会有任何反应。
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3. One such volcano-induced landslide occurred thousands of years ago in the Greek islands, causing the Minoan civilization to be wiped from the map.
数千年前在希腊岛屿就发生了这样的一场引发火山的山崩，导致古希腊克里特文明从此消失。
- landslide (n.) also land-slide, 1841, "fall or down-slide of a mass of rock, earth, etc. from a slope or mountain," American English, from land (n.) + slide (n.). Earlier was landslip (1670s), which is preferred in Britain. Old English used eorðgebyrst in this sense; literally "earth-burst." Landslide in the political sense "lopsided electoral victory" is attested from 1888.
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