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An escarpment is a long, high, steep face on the land — a cliff or a very sharp slope — where the ground drops from one fairly flat level to another. Picture a table of high country, then a sudden wall of rock or earth, then the lower land at the bottom. Water, weather, and the slow push of the earth can all cut that step. Walkers, map-makers, and people who study land use the word; it is not a street word. A hill can rise gently all the way; an escarpment is the sharp step, not the whole mountain.
陡崖；崖壁
組成Borrowed from French escarpement. By the look of the English word, escarp (a steep bank) + -ment (the thing or result).
同家族的字
- escarpthe same steep-bank idea; a rarer verb or noun from the same French word
原始詞典資料1 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。
escarpmentnoun/ɪˈskɑːp.mənt/
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A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
- After the canyons, the most remarkable features of the country are the long lines of cliffs. These are bold escarpments scores or hundreds of miles in length,—great geographic steps, often hundreds or thousands of feet in altitude, presenting steep faces of rock, often vertical.
- The railway winds down the face of the escarpment on a steady grade of 1.05 per cent, which is considerably better than the old route, up which trains took 2 hr. to struggle 15 miles, with two stops.
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。