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/klɪf/
A large piece of rock, or the side of a mountain, that goes down almost straight instead of . Cliffs are often at the edge of the sea or a river.
懸崖；峭壁
複數 cliffs
核心畫面
Think of rock that has been cut away rather than : instead of the ground going down gently so you could walk it, the land simply stops and drops almost straight. Stand at the top and one more step is empty air. Cliffs usually stand where the sea or a river has eaten the land away.
可以想成一塊「被切掉」的岩石：地面不是慢慢斜下去讓你可以走，而是走著走著突然中斷，幾乎垂直往下掉。站在上面再往前一步…更多收起
可以想成一塊「被切掉」的岩石：地面不是慢慢斜下去讓你可以走，而是走著走著突然中斷，幾乎垂直往下掉。站在上面再往前一步就是空的。這個畫面的重點在那個「陡到近乎直」的角度——所以海邊被浪啃出來的岩壁、河谷兩側的石壁、山的那一面峭壁都算；一般可以慢慢爬上去的山坡就不算。原始詞典資料10 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。
Cliffname
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A diminutive of the male given name Clifford or Clifton.
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A surname.
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An unincorporated community and coal town in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States.
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A census-designated place in Grant County, New Mexico, United States.
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A hamlet in North Warwickshire district, Warwickshire, England (OS grid ref SP2198).
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A neighbourhood, The Cliff, in the Metropolitan Borough of Salford, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8201).
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A small settlement on the Isle of Lewis, Western Isles council area, Scotland, appearing on OS maps as Cliobh (OS grid ref NB0835).
cliffnoun詞源 1/klɪf/
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A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
- , scar
- 2
A point beyond which something abruptly fails or decreases in value, performance, etc.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。