【scarp】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

词源(Etymology)

Aphetic form of escarp.

发音(Pronunciation)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /skɑːp/

  • Audio (UK)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /skɑɹp/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(r)p

名词(Noun)

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scarp

Wikipedia

scarp (plural scarps)

1. the steep artificial slope below a fort's parapet
2. (geology) a cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge caused by erosion or faulting; the steeper side of an escarpment
   • 2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)[1]

     Sweating under the sun, we scale the barren eastern scarp of the Great Rift Valley (Area B), edging carefully around controversial, razor-wired Israeli settlements (Area C).

翻译(Translations)

动词(Verb)

scarp (third-person singular simple present scarps, present participle scarping, simple past and past participle scarped)

1. (earth science, geography, transitive) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment

   to scarp the face of a ditch or a rock

   • 1849, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon,[…], published 1850, OCLC 3968433, (please specify |part=prologue or epilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):

     From scarped cliff and quarried stone

   • (Can we date this quote by Emerson and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Sweep ruins from the scarped mountain

变位词(Anagrams)

• APCRs, Carps, RSPCA, carps, craps, parcs, pracs, scrap