| 单词 | ravine |
| 释义 | ravine (once / 576 pages) n In a Western, outlaws will lie in wait at the top of a ravine, or narrow valley, until they see a traveler entering at the bottom. Then, the outlaws will come pounding down the ravine's steep sides. Ravines can be lonely and violent places averse to settlement as nothing can be built along their steep sides. The word ravine itself derives from the archaic rapin, which is a violent seizure of property. During times of heavy rains and snow melt, a ravine may be filled with violent, rushing water. WORD FAMILYravine: ravines USAGE EXAMPLESImagine, if you will, in place of Seneca, a ravine. Seattle Times(Dec 22, 2016) The burning vehicle was found in a ravine in northern Franklin County. Washington Times(Dec 01, 2016) More than 60 years later, in 2007, an independent investigator discovered aircraft wreckage in a deep ravine in India. Washington Times(Nov 25, 2016) n a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water) Exp|Hypo|Hyper Cataract Canyon a tributary of the Grand Canyon Grand Canyonthe enormous gorge of the Colorado River in northern Arizona Olduvai Gorgea gorge in northeastern Tanzania where anthropologists have found some of the earliest human remains canon, canyon a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall gorgea deep ravine (usually with a river running through it) flume, gulcha narrow gorge with a stream running through it vale, valley a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river |
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