英汉词典

escarpment 基本解释

n.

悬崖；断崖；绝壁；陡斜坡

变形

复数：escarpments

英英释义

escarpment[ i'skɑ:pmənt ]

n.a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion

同义词：scarp

a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification

同义词：escarpscarpprotective embankment

escarpment 相关例句

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. Warm tip: Watch out for escarpment.
   温馨敬告：坡陡，注意安全。
2. The fox went to ground under a rocky escarpment.
   狐狸钻进了石崖下面的洞里。
3. There was an escarpment about 150 meters to our right.
   在我们右侧大约150米的地方是一处悬崖。

权威例句

Soil production on a retreating escarpment in southeastern Australia
Biological communities at the Florida escarpment resemble hydrothermal vent taxa
Malta Escarpment fault zone offshore eastern Sicily: Pliocene㏎uaternary tectonic evolution based on new multichannel seismic data
Escarpment evolution on high‐elevation rifted margins: Insights derived from a surface processes model that combines diffusion, adv...
Slow rates of rock surface erosion and sediment production across the Namib Desert and Escarpment, Southern Africa
Denudational history along a transect across the Drakensberg Escarpment of southern Africa derived from apatite fission track thermo...
Indicators of Methane-Derived Carbonates and Chemosynthetic Organic Carbon Deposits: Examples from the Florida Escarpment
Phylogenetic relationships of toads in the Bufo bufo species group from the eastern escarpment of the Tibetan Plateau: a case of vic...
A wind-tunnel investigation of the wind speed and turbulence characteristics close to the ground over various escarpment shapes
Landslide susceptibility assessment using “weights-of-evidence” applied to a study area at the Jurassic escarpment (SW-Germany)