precipice
precipice 英 [ˈpresəpɪs] 美 [ˈprɛsəpɪs]
n. 悬崖；绝壁；险境
名词复数:precipices
- Cartoon characters often end up on a precipice, the edge of a steep cliff, where their chubby toes curl and cling as they totter and eventually fall, making a hole in the ground below and getting up again. Most real people avoid precipices.
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- n. 悬崖；绝壁；险境
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1. Watching him climb up the precipice, everybody was breathless with anxiety.
看着他往悬崖上爬， 大家都捏一把汗。
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2. We all know the classic scene from cartoons: the cat reaches a precipice but goes on walking; it starts to fall only when it looks down and notices the abyss.
我们都知道卡通片里的经典场景：一只猫到了悬崖边上，但它继续前进；只有当它往下看，并注意到深渊的时候，它才开始下坠。
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3. We all know the classic scenes from cartoons. The cart reaches a precipice. But it goes on walking. Ignoring the fact that there is nothing beneath.
我们都知道这麽一个经典的卡通场景：一只猫到了悬崖边，但却继续前进，忽略了脚下没有任何东西的这个事实。
- precipice (n.) "steep face of rock," 1630s, from Middle French précipice, from Latin praecipitium "a steep place," literally "a fall or leap," from praeceps (genitive praecipitis) "steep, headlong, headfirst," from prae "before, forth" (see pre-) + caput "head" (from PIE root *kaput- "head"). Earlier in English as a verb (1590s) meaning "fall to great depth."
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