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A long, narrow raised strip along the top of something - most often the top edge of a line of hills or mountains, where the land rises to a point and then drops on both sides. You can also talk about a ridge on a smaller object, like the ridge of your nose or a ridge pressed into cardboard.
山脊;(物體上)隆起的稜線
原始詞典資料15 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。
Ridgename
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A village in Hertsmere district, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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A toponymic surname from Middle English, named after the natural feature.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
ridgenoun/ɹɪd͡ʒ/
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anatomymedicinesciencesThe back of any animal; especially the upper or projecting part of the back of a quadruped.
- He thought it was no time to ſtay, / And let the Night too ſteal away, / But in a trice advanced the Knight, / Upon the Bare Ridge, Bolt upright, / And groping out for Ralpho’s Jade, / He found the Saddle too was ſtraid[…]
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Any extended protuberance; a projecting line or strip.
- The plough threw up ridges of earth between the furrows.
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The line along which two sloping surfaces meet which diverge towards the ground.
- mountain ridge
- It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick.
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The highest point on a roof, represented by a horizontal line where two roof areas intersect, running the length of the area.
- Among the domestic animals which may generally be seen in native houses, are gaudy parrots, green, red, and blue, a few domestic fowls, which have baskets hung for them to lay in under the eaves, and who sleep on the ridge, and several half-starved wolfish-looking dogs.
- Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.
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fortificationsgovernmentmilitaryThe highest portion of the glacis proceeding from the salient angle of the covered way.
- the British Guards lie down behind a ridge to avoid the shot and shell from the opposite heights
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A chain of mountains.
- […]Which to maintaine, I would allow him oddes, / And meete him, were I tide to runne afoote, / Euen to the frozen ridges of the Alpes, / Or any other ground inhabitable, / Where euer Engliſhman durſt ſet his foote.
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A chain of hills.
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geographynatural-sciencesoceanographyA long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesAn elongated region of high atmospheric pressure.
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A long tentpole that holds up the ceiling of a tent and is in turn held up by uprights.
- Coordinate term: upright
ridgeverb/ɹɪd͡ʒ/
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To form into a ridge.
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To extend in ridges.
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。