precipices是什么意思？

precipices

• n. 悬崖，峭壁( precipice的名词复数 )；

例句

• High places have their precipices. 位高则临险.
• Few people can climb up to the sheer precipices and overhanging rocks. 悬崖绝壁很少有人能登上去.
• Sheer above us rose the Spy - glass, here dotted with single pines, there black with precipices. 我们的头顶上方耸立着陡峭的望远镜山, 上面长着几棵孤零零的松树, 其他地方则是黑黝黝的悬崖绝壁.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  悬崖；峭壁
  A precipice is a very steep cliff on a mountain.
• N-COUNT
  险境；危局；绝境
  If you say that someone is on the edge of a precipice, you mean that they are in a dangerous situation in which they are extremely close to disaster or failure.
  例句
  I was beginning to admit to myself that our marriage was rolling toward the edge of a precipice... 我内心开始承认我们的婚姻正走向危险的边缘。 The King now stands on the brink of a political precipice. 国王现在处于政治上岌岌可危的境地。