喜樂美語
  1. 1洞窟、大洞穴（比口頭常說的 cave 更大、更深的那種）

    A cavern is a large cave: a big hollow space in rock, under the ground or inside a mountain. People use cave for almost any hole in rock that you can walk into. Cavern usually makes you picture something bigger and more impressive — a high ceiling, a wide floor, sometimes water or stone shapes inside. Writers also stretch it a little for any huge indoor space that feels dark and empty, like a cavern of a station. In careful English it sounds a bit more literary than cave; in everyday talk many people just say cave even when the space is huge.

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組成From Middle English caverne, from Old French caverne, from Latin caverna (a hollow, a cave), from cavus (hollow).

同家族的字

  • cavernousthe adjective: huge, deep, and hollow like a cavern
  • cavitysame Latin root cavus, meaning hollow
  • cavethe shorter everyday word for a hollow in rock

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

cavernnoun/ˈkav.ən/

  • 1

    A large cave.

  • 2

    An underground chamber.

    • In Xanadu did Kubla Khan / A stately pleasure-dome decree: / Where Alph, the sacred river, ran / Through caverns measureless to man / Down to a sunless sea.
  • 3

    A large, dark place or space.

    • a dark cavern of a shop

cavernverb/ˈkav.ən/

  • 1

    To form a cavern or deep depression in.

    • catacombs caverning the hillsides
  • 2

    To put into a cavern.

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