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ravine [rә'vi:n]

n. 峡谷, 冲沟, 溪谷

ravine

[ noun ]
a deep narrow steep-sided valley (especially one formed by running water)
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Ravine \Ra*vine"\ (r[.a]*v[=e]n"), n. [F., a place excavated by
a torrent, a ravine, fr. ravir to snatch or tear away, L.
rapere; cf. L. rapina rapine. See {Ravish}, and cf. {Rapine},
{Raven} prey.]
1. A torrent of water. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.

2. A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or
torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.

Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Rav"ine\ (r[a^]v"'n), n. [See 2d
{Raven}.]
Food obtained by violence; plunder; prey; raven. ``Fowls of
ravyne.'' --Chaucer.

Though Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine, shrieked against his creed. --Tennyson.

Ravin \Rav"in\, Ravine \Rav"ine\, v. t. & i.
See {Raven}, v. t. & i.

Raven \Rav"en\ (r[a^]v"'n), n. [OF. ravine impetuosity,
violence, F. ravine ravine. See {Ravine}, {Rapine}.] [Written
also {ravin}, and {ravine}.]
1. Rapine; rapacity. --Ray.

2. Prey; plunder; food obtained by violence.

Raven \Rav"en\, v. i.
To prey with rapacity; to be greedy; to show rapacity.
[Written also {ravin}, and {ravine}.]

Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. --Gen. xlix.
27.

Three hours later, troops spotted the guerrillas in a ravine. "We fired, and they didn't have much choice but to die," 1st Lt.
They briefly took a hostage from among the nine people in the home, fired shots at a pursuing sheriff's deputy, and shot it out with Jacobson and a deputy when cornered in a ravine the evening of Jan. 12, Cottrell said.
The automobile failed to negotiate a hairpin turn and tumbled down a ravine.
The soldiers of the Atonal battalion proceeded to burn or throw down a ravine large quantities of beans, salt, tortillas, fresh meat and clothing left behind by rebels.
The truck crashed down a steep ravine along a road leading to Myawadi, near the Thai border, late Friday, said the official, who requested anonymity.
Robert Wiebe, 54, of British Columbia, died when his helicopter crashed into a ravine while he was dropping 200-gallon buckets of water on the arson fire last week.
The driver hit the brakes and the vehicle swerved off the road, plunging 371 feet into a ravine.
A crowded bus swerved to avoid hitting a goat and toppled into a ravine on Monday, killing at least 30 people, according to a news report.
Life was a crazy experience for him, and he had his foot to the floorboard." Young died of under unexplained circumstances three years ago at age 44. He was found in his car at the bottom of a ravine.
News photographers who flew over the scene said they could see passenger cars lying jumbled, some of them on their side, in the river at the bottom of a deep ravine.
The Israeli military said that last Wednesday, two Palestinian guerrillas from Lebanon crossed Israel's border and wounded a truck driver before they were trapped in a ravine and slain by an army patrol.
Here I don't have to go to bed at 9 o'clock like a little kid." The camp sits in a ravine at the end of an unused Conrail track. Planted squarely on the track is the Evons' house, a large plywood shack that Evon built with scrap supplies.
A passenger bus skidded into a ravine in central Portugal on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 37, traffic police said.
Workers were searching for the missing bodies in a ravine below a jagged cliff at the crash site west-southwest of the capital.
Also on Thursday, an ambulance carrying an injured firefighter, Sebastien Antraygues, slid off the road and into a ravine, killing him.
The bus skidded for about 30 feet after it overturned and came to a stop with the back of the bus in a shallow part of the ravine and the front jutting about 15 feet in the air.
A crowded bus plunged into a 500-foot ravine in the Hamalayan foothills Friday, killing at least 51 people and injuring 11, police said.
The crowded state-owned bus plunged Thursday into a 200-foot ravine and exploded in flames after the attacker, shouting "God is Great!" grabbed the steering wheel.
On July 6, a Palestinian seized the steering wheel of an Israeli commuter bus and forced it off the highway into a ravine, killing 16 Jews.
Another daughter, 2-year-old Carmina, survived after Salcido slit her throat and dumped her in a ravine with her sisters.
A bus skidded off an icy road and plunged into a ravine, killing five people and injuring 51 others, 21 of them seriously, the state news agency Tanjug reported Thursday.
The official, who requested anonymity, disputed another official's claim that the cars plunged into a ravine.
A helicopter used in filming a Chuck Norris action movie crashed into a ravine and exploded Tuesday, killing four people, two of them Americans, officials said.
A railway car carrying the couples careened off tracks in the Andes and tumbled down a ravine Thursday.
A bus plunged off a roadside cliff and down a steep ravine in the high Andes, killing 15 passengers and injuring four, police said Tuesday.
The ravine is about two-thirds of the way up the 6,288-foot peak, the tallest in the Northeast.
Two Canadian women were among 14 people killed when a Palestinian grabbed the wheel and forced a bus to plunge down a 200-foot ravine, police said Friday.
Sheriff's deputies found Nicolette Jean Frye's body Monday in a ravine in East San Diego County.
A rock climber hoping to land in the Blackwater Creek ravine after rappelling off a bridge instead landed in police custody.
A bus drove off a mountain road and plunged 500 feet into a ravine, killing 35 people, police said.

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