首页英语词典precipitousprecipitous英英释意

precipitous

英[prɪ'sɪpɪtəs] 美[prɪ'sɪpɪtəs]
  • adj. 险峻的;急躁的,鲁莽的

英英释意


1. done with very great haste and without due deliberation;
"hasty marriage seldom proveth well"- Shakespeare
"hasty makeshifts take the place of planning"- Arthur Geddes
"rejected what was regarded as an overhasty plan for reconversion"
"wondered whether they had been rather precipitate in deposing the king"
2. characterized by precipices;
"a precipitous bluff"
3. extremely steep;
"an abrupt canyon"
"the precipitous rapids of the upper river"
"the precipitous hills of Chinese paintings"
"a sharp drop"