cleaves是什么意思？

cleaves

• v. 劈开，剁开，割开( cleave的第三人称单数 )；

例句

• The water cleaves the banks away like a knife. 河水象一把刀似的,把两岸削掉.
• This wood cleaves easily. 这木材好劈.
• My voice cleaves to my throat, and sob chokes my utterance. 我的噪子哽咽, 泣不成声.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  劈开;砍开
  To cleave something means to split or divide it into two separate parts, often violently.
  例句
  They just cleave the stone along the cracks. 他们就是顺着裂缝把石头劈开。
• VERB
  坚守;信守;忠于
  If someone cleaves to something or to someone else, they begin or continue to have strong feelings of loyalty towards them.
  例句
  She has cleaved to these principles all her life... 她这一辈子都恪守这些原则。 He still clove to this ideal. 他仍然坚守着这个理想。