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noun keɪvkeɪv A natural underground chamber in a hillside or cliff. （尤指天然形成的）洞穴 the narrow gorge contains a series of prehistoric caves Example sentencesExamples - Steven Birch and a small team of archaeologists are excavating a remarkable cave on the Isle of Skye.
- Entry to the caves was through a passage which led to a large chamber filled with water.
- Karim, dive instructor and owner of Deep South Diving, leads me through a series of caves at the back of the reef.
- This produces stalactites and related deposits in underground caves.
- The coastline is varied, dramatic and rugged, cut with caves, gullies, canyons and sheer cliffs.
- The numerous caves and grottoes were long occupied by Palaeolithic peoples.
- Other parts of Rainbow River are better known for caves and grottos.
- The reef face is pockmarked by some fairly deep caves where only qualified cave divers should venture.
- Bats spend the summer living in trees and buildings, and retreat to caves and potholes in winter, to hibernate.
- The growth rate of stalactites and stalagmites in many caves today is of course quite slow.
- The cave has two main chambers, with a series of galleries and chambers leading off them.
- Many faults have karst features developed along them, with strings of caves visible along the faults.
- The Himalayan cave houses an icy stalagmite worshipped as an incarnation of the Hindu god Shiva.
- The cavern is a natural cave carved into the rock by the sea, and widened into an underground canal by human hands.
- If we all lived underground in caves there would be fewer skin cancers, and if we all moved to Brisbane there would be more.
- Local monks have also taken advantages of the natural caves and have made them part of their temples.
- It opens with an old woman relating a mythical tale of people trapped in an underground cave.
- The rock's many natural caves have been added to over the years by a series of remarkable tunnels.
- Plato was not describing a real place any more than his allegory of the cave describes a real cave.
- To the north lies Durness with the spectacular Smoo Cave, a limestone cave with a hole in the roof.
Synonyms cavern, grotto, hollow, cavity, pothole, underground chamber, gallery, tunnel, dugout
verb keɪvkeɪv [no object]1Explore caves as a sport. 洞穴探险 they say they cave for the adventure, challenge, and physical exercise Example sentencesExamples - Howard, Martin, Sweeny and Snablet caved back through Hang Ho into Pitch Cave to follow a lead there.
- I found the way out quite a struggle; having not caved for 2 months I was a little out of practice.
- Most of the Polish cavers we caved with were hard.
- Back when I was living out of a backpack I went caving in Budapest.
2US Capitulate or submit under pressure; cave in. 〈喻〉（在压力下）屈服，屈从 he caved because his position had become untenable she finally caved in the face of his persistence Example sentencesExamples - He caved, I assume to keep his job.
- Eventually I told him that I refused to pay full price and he caved.
- Finally, after a shopping expedition on Saturday, I caved.
- Actually, five minutes into ‘Die Hard’ he caved and let me watch my movie.
- In other news: tonight I caved and bought the expensive cat litter.
- Once again, we'd both wanted the same thing - and, as before, I caved and picked something else.
- The dean promptly caved and told us that our party was now being called the ‘Annual’ party
- Besides when it gets to Tuesday, I think someone will cave and pay our price.
- He will make his decision for football reasons - he won't cave.
- The studios and independents resisted at first on principle, then caved.
Synonyms collapse, fall in, give, give way, crumble, crumple, disintegrate, subside, fall down, sag, slump
Phrasal Verbs1(of a roof or similar structure) subside or collapse. （屋顶等）下陷，坍塌，倒塌；使下陷，使倒塌 the tunnel walls caved in Len's club would have caved his skull in 伦的棍子就可以把他脑袋打陷下去了。 Example sentencesExamples - The roof caved in and the windscreen was smashed.
- He was apparently writing a letter to his family and there is speculation that he may have saved the life of the boy next to him by shielding him when the roof caved in on them.
- More than 500 people were believed to be in the 110,000 sq ft exhibition hall when the roof caved in.
- We don't like to think about it, but what if you lose your job or the roof of your house caves in?
- The road has caved into the drains at several points.
- Her bathroom ceiling caved in last week after she had waited more than a month for repairs.
- Then the roof started caving in at that end of the station, everything seemed to happen in slow motion.
- Doors were rotting, roofs of buildings were caving in, streets were littered with rusting machine-like objects.
- In one tiny schoolhouse the roof caved in after a heavy rain and prickly pear quickly began to take root inside.
- The roof caved in during the fire at the Chalkwell Park Rooms, a popular function suite on the edge of Chalkwell Park, Westcliff.
- The roof had caved in and trees were growing through the gaping hole.
- The roof is caving in, and bats have taken over the empty structure.
- Now a corner, now a brick, the structure is caving in upon itself.
- The couple's hardwood floor was destroyed but that was not the end of their troubles, as the roof then began to cave in.
- As many as 30 miners were trapped underground on Tuesday after a tunnel caved in at the mine.
- A five-storey building under construction caved in on Saturday at the seaside town of Canacona, trapping workers on the site.
- Mr Grove's housemate said he heard glass smashing and saw flames leaping up the stairs of the house before the ceiling caved in.
- Police wearing breathing masks manned posts to divert traffic away from the industrial estate where workers were evacuated from the blazing warehouse just as the roof was caving in.
- A fire broke out after the tunnel caved in on Sunday, and a number of survivors fled to safety on foot.
- She felt as if at any moment the roof would cave in on her and bury her alive.
Synonyms collapse, fall in, give, give way, crumble, crumple, disintegrate, subside, fall down, sag, slump - 1.1Capitulate or submit under pressure.
〈喻〉（在压力下）屈服，屈从 the manager caved in to his demands 经理屈从了他的要求。 Example sentencesExamples - Other times he caved in to pressure, either from industry or pro-censorship forces.
- Critics have also slammed the government for caving in to the demands of the mining industry and leaving loopholes "large enough for mining trucks to drive through".
- She won't cave in to his demands that she admit the marriage was fraudulent.
- My parents finally caved in and got me a landline phone in my room for my 14th birthday.
- The top players will continue to demand more money and eventually the league will cave in to the pressure from the big clubs.
- After rolling my eyes many many times this week, I eventually caved in.
- Already the Danish government, which had announced plans to scale down ferry operations when the bridge opened, has caved in to public pressure to maintain the service.
- Numerous stations immediately caved in to the pressure.
- A number of the country's biggest publishers say the strategy amounts to blackmail and are refusing to cave in.
- She said the bus driver should never have let them get on if there was not enough room, and had caved in to pressure from other passengers.
- Ministers have caved in to pressure from the farming industry over one of the most controversial proposals to prevent a repeat of last year's epidemic.
- So instead, the government caved in to their pressure.
Synonyms yield, surrender, submit, succumb, back down, make concessions, capitulate, give in, give up, raise the white flag, show the white flag
the car smashed into the front door and almost caved in the porch Example sentencesExamples - Your homeowner's policy will cover you if a tree blows down and caves the roof in.
- Rodger also struck two bicyclists with his car, the second of whom caved in the car's windshield.
- A crane had run into the back of her car, crushing the roof and boot and caving in the rear windscreen.
- It took the fire service 30 minutes to contain and extinguish the fire, which had caved the roof in and destroyed a car.
- Problems apparently arose in February, when a heavy snowfall caved in the roof.
- Half of the three-story building was heavily damaged by the fire, which caved in the roof.
- After the quake shook the house, knocking it off its foundation and caving in the porch they loved, they said they don't know if they can afford to stay.
- One man had his skull caved in.
Derivativesadjective Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away from Capitol Hill, deep within the cave-like laboratories of the infamous research centre that gave birth to the A-bomb, scientists have begun work on a new, highly classified project. Example sentencesExamples - When you go into the halls of Gems and Minerals next door, you enter a cave-like kind of room, which is reminiscent of where those rocks come from.
- All three firms will consult with homeowners or their contractors as to how to create the cave-like conditions that are optimal for long-term wine storage.
- Eventually she took my hand and drew me through a small door into a cave-like room where I was introduced to her father.
- Fluorescent lighting illuminates the white underside of the outer shell generating a soft iridescence that evokes the mystery of a subterranean grotto, with the cave-like auditorium at its heart.
noun ˈkeɪvəˈkeɪvər What the group of relatively inexperienced cavers didn't know was that the heavy rain of the previous few days was seeping through the porous limestone rock and would quickly fill the cavern with freezing cold, rushing water. Example sentencesExamples - In high water conditions care is needed, but a trip through Manchester Hole, considered a classic river cave, can normally be accomplished by experienced cavers in about 30 minutes.
- Two cavers were saved last night after being trapped by flood water at Kingsdale master cave, near Ingleton, North Yorkshire.
- And, according to the cavers present, cave diving is not, yet, an activity which has attracted too many inexperienced thrill seekers.
- The injured man was with a group of cavers who were going through a system using ropes.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from Latin cava, from cavus 'hollow' (compare with cavern). The usage cave in may be from the synonymous dialect expression calve in, influenced by obsolete cave 'excavate, hollow out'. Latin cavus, ‘hollow’, is the origin of a number of English words, including cave, cavern (Late Middle English), cavity (mid 16th century), and excavate (late 16th century). Concave (Late Middle English) is from cavus preceded by con ‘with’, while convex (late 16th century) is from the Latin for ‘vaulted, arched’. In the days when more people knew Latin, there was a second English word spelled cave. This one, pronounced kah-vay, meant ‘beware!’, and was used from the mid 19th century by schoolchildren to warn their friends that a teacher was coming.
exclamation ˈkeɪviˈkeɪvi British dated, informal (among children) look out!
Phrasesdated, informal Act as lookout. 望风 Example sentencesExamples - I was the one who had the brains so I kept cave and I used to charge 'em all two apples so I never went to get the apples myself.
- We were in a ground floor ward, and at visiting time I kept cave outside the toilet whilst Jo went into the loo, stood on the toilet seat and opened the window.
- While Lloyd George was ‘robbing the hen roosts’, Churchill kept cave for him.
OriginLatin, imperative of cavere 'beware'. nounkeɪvkāv A large underground chamber, typically of natural origin, in a hillside or cliff. （尤指天然形成的）洞穴 Example sentencesExamples - If we all lived underground in caves there would be fewer skin cancers, and if we all moved to Brisbane there would be more.
- The rock's many natural caves have been added to over the years by a series of remarkable tunnels.
- Steven Birch and a small team of archaeologists are excavating a remarkable cave on the Isle of Skye.
- Bats spend the summer living in trees and buildings, and retreat to caves and potholes in winter, to hibernate.
- The cave has two main chambers, with a series of galleries and chambers leading off them.
- Karim, dive instructor and owner of Deep South Diving, leads me through a series of caves at the back of the reef.
- Local monks have also taken advantages of the natural caves and have made them part of their temples.
- It opens with an old woman relating a mythical tale of people trapped in an underground cave.
- Plato was not describing a real place any more than his allegory of the cave describes a real cave.
- The Himalayan cave houses an icy stalagmite worshipped as an incarnation of the Hindu god Shiva.
- The coastline is varied, dramatic and rugged, cut with caves, gullies, canyons and sheer cliffs.
- The growth rate of stalactites and stalagmites in many caves today is of course quite slow.
- This produces stalactites and related deposits in underground caves.
- The cavern is a natural cave carved into the rock by the sea, and widened into an underground canal by human hands.
- Entry to the caves was through a passage which led to a large chamber filled with water.
- Many faults have karst features developed along them, with strings of caves visible along the faults.
- Other parts of Rainbow River are better known for caves and grottos.
- The reef face is pockmarked by some fairly deep caves where only qualified cave divers should venture.
- To the north lies Durness with the spectacular Smoo Cave, a limestone cave with a hole in the roof.
- The numerous caves and grottoes were long occupied by Palaeolithic peoples.
Synonyms cavern, grotto, hollow, cavity, pothole, underground chamber, gallery, tunnel, dugout
verbkeɪvkāv [no object]1Explore caves as a sport. 洞穴探险 Example sentencesExamples - Howard, Martin, Sweeny and Snablet caved back through Hang Ho into Pitch Cave to follow a lead there.
- Back when I was living out of a backpack I went caving in Budapest.
- Most of the Polish cavers we caved with were hard.
- I found the way out quite a struggle; having not caved for 2 months I was a little out of practice.
2US Capitulate or submit under pressure; cave in. 〈喻〉（在压力下）屈服，屈从 he caved because his position had become untenable she finally caved in the face of his persistence Example sentencesExamples - Once again, we'd both wanted the same thing - and, as before, I caved and picked something else.
- In other news: tonight I caved and bought the expensive cat litter.
- The studios and independents resisted at first on principle, then caved.
- Eventually I told him that I refused to pay full price and he caved.
- The dean promptly caved and told us that our party was now being called the ‘Annual’ party
- He caved, I assume to keep his job.
- He will make his decision for football reasons - he won't cave.
- Actually, five minutes into ‘Die Hard’ he caved and let me watch my movie.
- Finally, after a shopping expedition on Saturday, I caved.
- Besides when it gets to Tuesday, I think someone will cave and pay our price.
Synonyms collapse, fall in, give, give way, crumble, crumple, disintegrate, subside, fall down, sag, slump
Phrasal Verbs1(of a roof or similar structure) subside or collapse. （屋顶等）下陷，坍塌，倒塌；使下陷，使倒塌 the tunnel walls caved in Example sentencesExamples - He was apparently writing a letter to his family and there is speculation that he may have saved the life of the boy next to him by shielding him when the roof caved in on them.
- In one tiny schoolhouse the roof caved in after a heavy rain and prickly pear quickly began to take root inside.
- The roof is caving in, and bats have taken over the empty structure.
- We don't like to think about it, but what if you lose your job or the roof of your house caves in?
- Doors were rotting, roofs of buildings were caving in, streets were littered with rusting machine-like objects.
- The roof caved in and the windscreen was smashed.
- She felt as if at any moment the roof would cave in on her and bury her alive.
- More than 500 people were believed to be in the 110,000 sq ft exhibition hall when the roof caved in.
- Her bathroom ceiling caved in last week after she had waited more than a month for repairs.
- Mr Grove's housemate said he heard glass smashing and saw flames leaping up the stairs of the house before the ceiling caved in.
- As many as 30 miners were trapped underground on Tuesday after a tunnel caved in at the mine.
- Police wearing breathing masks manned posts to divert traffic away from the industrial estate where workers were evacuated from the blazing warehouse just as the roof was caving in.
- A five-storey building under construction caved in on Saturday at the seaside town of Canacona, trapping workers on the site.
- The roof had caved in and trees were growing through the gaping hole.
- Now a corner, now a brick, the structure is caving in upon itself.
- The roof caved in during the fire at the Chalkwell Park Rooms, a popular function suite on the edge of Chalkwell Park, Westcliff.
- The road has caved into the drains at several points.
- A fire broke out after the tunnel caved in on Sunday, and a number of survivors fled to safety on foot.
- The couple's hardwood floor was destroyed but that was not the end of their troubles, as the roof then began to cave in.
- Then the roof started caving in at that end of the station, everything seemed to happen in slow motion.
Synonyms collapse, fall in, give, give way, crumble, crumple, disintegrate, subside, fall down, sag, slump - 1.1Capitulate or submit under pressure.
〈喻〉（在压力下）屈服，屈从 the manager caved in to his demands 经理屈从了他的要求。 Example sentencesExamples - Other times he caved in to pressure, either from industry or pro-censorship forces.
- Ministers have caved in to pressure from the farming industry over one of the most controversial proposals to prevent a repeat of last year's epidemic.
- After rolling my eyes many many times this week, I eventually caved in.
- A number of the country's biggest publishers say the strategy amounts to blackmail and are refusing to cave in.
- The top players will continue to demand more money and eventually the league will cave in to the pressure from the big clubs.
- Already the Danish government, which had announced plans to scale down ferry operations when the bridge opened, has caved in to public pressure to maintain the service.
- So instead, the government caved in to their pressure.
- My parents finally caved in and got me a landline phone in my room for my 14th birthday.
- Numerous stations immediately caved in to the pressure.
- She said the bus driver should never have let them get on if there was not enough room, and had caved in to pressure from other passengers.
- Critics have also slammed the government for caving in to the demands of the mining industry and leaving loopholes "large enough for mining trucks to drive through".
- She won't cave in to his demands that she admit the marriage was fraudulent.
Synonyms yield, surrender, submit, succumb, back down, make concessions, capitulate, give in, give up, raise the white flag, show the white flag
the car smashed into the front door and almost caved in the porch Example sentencesExamples - Rodger also struck two bicyclists with his car, the second of whom caved in the car's windshield.
- A crane had run into the back of her car, crushing the roof and boot and caving in the rear windscreen.
- After the quake shook the house, knocking it off its foundation and caving in the porch they loved, they said they don't know if they can afford to stay.
- Half of the three-story building was heavily damaged by the fire, which caved in the roof.
- One man had his skull caved in.
- It took the fire service 30 minutes to contain and extinguish the fire, which had caved the roof in and destroyed a car.
- Problems apparently arose in February, when a heavy snowfall caved in the roof.
- Your homeowner's policy will cover you if a tree blows down and caves the roof in.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, from Latin cava, from cavus ‘hollow’ (compare with cavern). The usage cave in may be from the synonymous dialect expression calve in, influenced by obsolete cave ‘excavate, hollow out’. exclamationˈkāvēˈkeɪvi British dated, informal (among children) look out!
Phrasesdated, informal Act as lookout. 望风 Example sentencesExamples - While Lloyd George was ‘robbing the hen roosts’, Churchill kept cave for him.
- I was the one who had the brains so I kept cave and I used to charge 'em all two apples so I never went to get the apples myself.
- We were in a ground floor ward, and at visiting time I kept cave outside the toilet whilst Jo went into the loo, stood on the toilet seat and opened the window.
OriginLatin, imperative of cavere ‘beware’. |