crevice

英 ['krev?s] 美['kr?v?s]

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復(fù)數(shù):?crevices;

1. 諧音“殼裂紋撕”。

crevice 裂縫

來(lái)自詞根crep, 嘎吱作響，詞源同decrepit, discrepancy.詞義由嘎吱作響引申為裂縫。

crevice: crevice: [14] Rather like crack, the word crevice began with the notion of the sharp noise of breaking and gradually developed to denote the fissure caused by such a break. It comes ultimately from the Latin verb crepāre ‘creak, rattle, crack’ (source of English crepitation [17] and decrepit, and probably also of craven), which passed into Old French as crever ‘burst, split’. From this was derived the noun crevace, borrowed into Middle English as crevace or crevisse. In modern French it developed into crevasse, which English reborrowed in the 19th century.
=> craven, crepitation, crevasse, decrepit
crevice (n.): mid-14c., from Old French crevace (12c., Modern French crevasse) "gap, rift, crack" (also, vulgarly, "the female pudenda"), from Vulgar Latin *crepacia, from Latin crepare "to crack, creak" (see raven); meaning shifted from the sound of breaking to the resulting fissure.

3. I saw a plant growing out of a crevice in the wall.: 我看到墻縫里長(zhǎng)出一棵草來(lái).

4. Striving for life in crevice is the realistic circumstances of centual China.: 在西部和東部經(jīng)濟(jì)闊步前進(jìn)的同時(shí),“夾縫之中求生存”才是中部經(jīng)濟(jì)的真實(shí)境遇.

5. This paper deals with the crevice structure in boride layer.: 對(duì)滲硼層中的夾縫組織進(jìn)行了分析研究.