| 单词 | rockslide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrockslide rockslide n. originally U.S. a rapid movement of rock or other stony material down a hill or mountain; (also) a mass of material thus deposited; also figurative and in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > of rocks or detritus shot-heuch1574 slide1664 scree1813 shot-brae1822 earthslide1829 talus1830 slip1838 rockslide1845 earthslip1859 landslip1872 spout1883 shingle-slip1900 slump1905 stone stripe1934 shingle slide1944 1845 North Amer. & Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia) 23 Jan. 1/5 During this past year I have removed from the main line 96 bars, which were bent in unloading heavy materials for the second track, by rock slides, &c. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lvi. 299 Some mossy rock-slide from the Patagonian cliffs. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 Mar. 13/5 Owing to a big rockslide west of Terrace, B.C., the G.T.P. passenger train from Prince Rupert is now twenty-four hours late. 1959 R. E. Campbell I would do it Again xviii. 127 We took saddle horses across the flat as far as the mountain slope, which was covered by a rockslide. 1970 R. Lowell Notebk. 203 Is it my imagination or..Pound's Cantos lost in the rockslide of history? 1992 P. Theroux Happy Isles Oceania ii. 28 We walked across the sluices of long-ago rockslides and through a forest of whitened trunks of trees killed by a recent fire. 2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Oct. viii. 1/2 The woes that have tumbled like a rock slide onto the [Miami] Dolphins. < as lemmas |
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