- 1巨石、大圓石
A very large stone, usually roundish or worn smooth, big enough that you could not pick it up — often as tall as a person, or bigger. Rain, rivers, and time knock the sharp corners off, so a boulder looks different from a freshly broken chunk of cliff. You find them in rivers, on beaches, on . People also climb on them; that close-to-the-ground climbing took the name bouldering from this stone. A city in the United States is called Boulder after rocks like these. Everyday English uses boulder loosely for ‘huge rock’. Scientists draw stricter size lines (a boulder is larger than a cobble), but a only needs ‘a big, heavy, often rounded rock’.
組成From late Middle English bulder, shortened from bulder ston, ‘a stone worn into a round shape’. Two stories are told, and neither is certain: it may come from a Swedish-type ‘rumble-stone’ (a big stone in a stream that makes the water roar), or the first part may be related to a round drinking bowl, and so to English bowl. Treat both as ‘possibly’.
同家族的字
- boulderingthe sport of climbing on large stones, close to the ground, without a rope
原始詞典資料12 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。
Bouldername
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A town in Western Australia, merged with Kalgoorlie in 1989 as the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
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A home rule municipality, the county seat of Boulder County, Colorado, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Clinton County, Illinois, United States.
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A town, the county seat of Jefferson County, Montana, United States.
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A small town in Garfield County, Utah, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States.
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A census-designated place in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States.
bouldernoun/ˈbəʊl.də(ɹ)/
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A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land.
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geographygeologynatural-sciencesA particle greater than 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
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A large marble, in children's games.
- There were four sizes of marbles and we called them boulders, biggies, regulars, and teenies.
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climbinghobbieslifestyleA session of bouldering; involvement in bouldering.
boulderverb/ˈbəʊl.də(ɹ)/
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climbinghobbieslifestyleTo engage in bouldering.
- He bouldered a route in the same area with ease. Mitchell, 11, was hanging with the older kids in an area where bouldering nearly upside down seemed to be....
- As the week unfolded, we were taught about the equipment we needed, how to tie a rope and what to wear. We learnt to balance on our feet rather than cling on with our arms and to trust our rock shoes, the moulded rubber slippers that can grip the smoothest of surfaces. We abseiled, bouldered and belayed.
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