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If a room, space, or hole is cavernous, it is very large and deep, like a big cave. The word is about the feeling of empty volume: a high ceiling, a lot of air, often an echo, sometimes a little dark. People say a cavernous hall, a cavernous warehouse, a cavernous mouth. It does not have to be underground. It is a descriptive, slightly formal word, more at home in writing and careful speech than in quick chat. When it describes eyes or cheeks, it usually means deep-set or hollow-looking, not literally a cave.
（空間）空曠巨大的、深邃如洞穴的
組成cavern + -ous (full of / like). From Latin cavernōsus (full of hollows), from caverna + -ōsus.
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- cavernthe noun this adjective is built from
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
cavernousadj/ˈkav.ən.əs/
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Resembling a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere.
- The last stop on the West Coast Main Line before you cross the border into Scotland, the strategically placed Carlisle Citadel is a station steeped in history. Opened on September 1 1847, the cavernous station was once home to seven railway companies in the pre-Grouping years.
- At 8:34 p.m. Saturday night, in the cavernous ballroom at the Washington Hilton, I heard a loud crashing noise, like a big tray of dinner plates hitting the floor.
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Resembling a cavern in size, shape, or atmosphere.
- cavernous eyes
- While the filmmakers behind Dear Evan Hansen have maintained that their biggest motivation for adapting the popular Broadway musical was to immortalize Platt’s Tony-winning titular performance, what they’ve actually done by having the 27-year-old play a high school senior is highlight the stage show’s cavernous weaknesses while failing to transport just about any of its strengths to the new medium.
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anatomybiologymedicineHaving many caverns.
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dentistrymedicinesciencesHaving many caverns.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。