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单词 cave
释义
cave
noun[C]
uk
/keɪv/us
/keɪv/
B1
alargeholein thesideof ahill,cliff, ormountain, or one that isunderground
洞穴；山洞；地洞
picture of cave
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Examples
  • Theechoesof hisscreamsoundedin the cave for severalseconds.
  • She wascrushedin afreakaccidentin a cave in France.
  • She took me by thehandandledme into the cave.
  • Anarrowtrailofbloodleddirectlyinto the cave.
  • They weretrappedin the cave for 19hours.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Geography: caves, cracks & crevices
  • bergschrund
  • cavern
  • chimney
  • crack
  • crater
  • cratered
  • crevice
  • fissure
  • furrow
  • gouge
  • gulf
  • hole
  • pit
  • pothole
  • relocation
  • rut
  • speleologist
  • stalactite
  • stalagmite
  • the San Andreas Fault
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cave
verb[I]
uk
/keɪv/us
/keɪv/
informal
(alsocave in)
toagreeto something that you would notagreeto before, after someone haspersuadedyou orthreatenedyou:
让步；屈服；妥协
Afterprotestsfromcustomers, thecompanycaved andremovedtheitemfromitsstores.在顾客们进行抗议后，公司妥协了，从货架上拿下了这件商品。
Iknewhe'd cave if theyofferedhim moremoney.我就知道如果他们给他更多钱，他会妥协的。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Changing your mind
  • 180
  • about-face
  • about-turn
  • back away
  • back out
  • cave in
  • cold
  • come round
  • have another think comingidiom
  • move
  • oscillate
  • oscillation
  • pendulum
  • pull
  • pull out
  • think againidiom
  • think better ofsomethingidiom
  • time-server
  • time-serving
  • volte-face
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Accepting & agreeing reluctantly

Phrasal verb

cave in
(Definition ofcavefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

cave| American Dictionary

cave
noun[C]
us
/keɪv/
alargeholein thesideof ahill,cliff, ormountain, orunderground:
It was verydarkandcoldinside the cave.
(Definition ofcavefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcave

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French business groups reliant on colonial trade showed no sign of caving in to the arguments of the progressive bureaucrats willing to diversify colonial economies.
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The blockages, themselves, could provide evidence of the cave's original contents.
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The crevices between the loose rock in the caves were often found partly filled with soil rich in organic remains.
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The association of cenotes and caves is impor tant here.
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As physical access points to supernatural beings, physical characteristics of caves were probably thought to be as mysterious as the beings that dwelled there.
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Instead of offering a solution to the problem, this principle caves into its pressure.
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Whole villages of people disappeared into forests or hid in caves in the mountainous regions.
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Nonnidiculous ticks occupy open habitats whereas nidiculous ticks live in caves, burrows or nests of their hosts.
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There are far too many omissions for it to be an all-encompassing encyclopedia of caves.
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The serious problem of radon in caves gets only passing mention.
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She also looks at the artefactual evidence in rock shelters and caves for fleece processing and use in the past.
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Speleothems : a wide diversity of primitive life colonizes subsurface void spaces (' caves '), a potential environment that offers protection from harmful radiation on the surface.
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There are indeed lakes beneath the ice sheet, but they do not occur in caves.
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The cave's roof dripped and their clothing was soon soaked.
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The subconscious social grouping, the instinctive transformation from isolated self to group, needs caves where they might settle.
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Collocationswithcave

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artificial cave
To that end the rock crevice below the summit plateau was widened into anartificialcave, used as a guardhouse.
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cave dweller
The south branch cave beetle is another endangeredcavedweller.
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cave exploration
This tour sites have been surveyed and included in local travel agents besides cave exploration tour.
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