chasm的意思|chasm的解释-里氏词典

chasm ['kæzәm]

n. 陷窟, 裂口

There is always a vast chasm between rich and poor.
贫富的鸿沟始终存在。
The chasm between you and he can not be solved by us.
你和他之间的裂痕不是我们能解决的。
A huge chasm gaped before them.
他们面前有个巨大的裂痕.

chasm

[ noun ]
a deep opening in the earth's surface
<noun.object>

Chasm \Chasm\, n. [L. chasma, Gr. ?, fr. ? to grape, to open
wide. See {Chaos}.]
1. A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the
earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure.

That deep, romantic chasm which slanted down the
green hill. --Coleridge.

2. A void space; a gap or break, as in ranks of men.

Memory . . . fills up the chasms of thought.
--Addison.

Unless effective action is agreed soon to combat irregular payments, what one observer calls the 'black hole' down which money is now disappearing could soon develop into a chasm.
Hundreds of thousands of seriously ill people fell into the chasm between state and federal programs.
But in the viewing it seems less like an advance, more like a walk off a tall cliff into a chasm of glib misanthropic and misogynistic generalities.
Just as you can't cross a chasm in two small steps, the people of Panama can't hope to make the leap to liberty and prosperity with only halfhearted support from her neighbors to the north," Bushs said.
Elise holds out empty arms, pleading with Andrew to fill them, but the chasm is too wide, the distance traveled in different directions too great.
The prime minister, who at the end of the summer was left hanging by his fingernails over a chasm, has begun a long climb towards safer ground.
The terror, of course, can occur at moments when, on climbs of even modest difficulty, a foothold crumbles or a chasm must be traversed.
But compared with the chasm in 1986, what divides the EC and US in agriculture today is a centimetre.
Labor Party outrage at the slashing of the top tax rate from 60 percent to 40 percent and Conservative government delight at producing the first budget surplus for nearly 20 years underlined the chasm between Britain's two major parties.

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