| 单词 | canyon |
| 释义 | canyon noun[C] uk/ˈkæn.jən/us/ˈkæn.jən/alargevalleywith verysteepsidesand usually ariverflowingalong thebottom 峡谷Compare abyss(HOLE)literary chasm cleft craternoun crevasse defilenounliterary gorgenoun(VALLEY) gulf(AREA)formal gully(CHANNEL) ravine rift sinkholenoun(HOLE)  Jeff Greenough/Blend Images/GettyImages Geography: valleys
canyon| American Dictionarycanyon noun[C] us/ˈkæn·jən/adeepvalleywithsteepsidesand usually ariverflowingalong thebottom Examplesofcanyoncanyon Their echo and reverb is not accompanied by descriptions of sublime western canyons, tropical beaches or steaming jungles. From theCambridge English Corpus The hermit thrush uses a pentatonic scale, thecanyonwren all twelve semitones. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, were the canyons at an angle of repose of 30x, they would be y200 m deep. From theCambridge English Corpus Once inside the visitor sees all over the walls of the canyons real cactus sage brush and other vegetations transplanted from their natural clime. From theCambridge English Corpus This is his yin-yang talisman of figure-ground polarities: one half built with intermittentcanyonstreets, the other half open with intermittent obj ect buildings. From theCambridge English Corpus Also, several bright sinuous features, grading into fans, may be interpreted as gulleys or canyons. From theCambridge English Corpus Each bend rewarded me with verdant hillsides, wildflowers, and canyons. From theCambridge English Corpus Finally, the uppermost area of the painting contains tall, monumental building andcanyon-like streets. From theCambridge English Corpus Birds of prey nest on rock scarps and in canyons that are difficult to access. From theCambridge English Corpus The equatorialcanyonsystems are the only regions in the southern hemisphere where the stability increases. From theCambridge English Corpus The continuous line and open squares represents the site at thecanyonfloor. From theCambridge English Corpus In the story, a young girl was collecting firewood and, against her maternal grandmother's admonitions, took a short-cut home through a rockycanyon. From theCambridge English Corpus Interactions of such waves with obstacles (such as canyons) may cause local blocking events, and it is thought that the periodic quasi-linear theory can be modified to study such phenomena. From theCambridge English Corpus It's like walking through acanyon. From theCambridge English Corpus Site types that could be particularly suitable to this survey include desert surfaces, duricrusts, pavements, ice surfaces, and large flat-bottomed canyons. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. CollocationswithcanyoncanyonThese are words often used in combination withcanyon. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. canyon floor The continuous line and open squares represents the site at thecanyonfloor. From theCambridge English Corpus canyon wall The trail down is located on the left side (looking downstream), up against thecanyonwall. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.deep canyon After dropping over the falls, the creek enters adeepcanyon, which extends almost all the way to its mouth. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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