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A rift is a big crack or split. It can be literal, like a rift in the earth's surface where the ground has pulled apart. More often, we use it for people: a rift is a serious disagreement that damages or breaks a relationship — 'a rift between old friends' means something happened and now there's real distance between them.
裂縫(地表)/(人際)裂痕、不合
原始詞典資料8 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。
riftnoun詞源 1/ɹɪft/
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A chasm or fissure.
- The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
- Where ashes are heaped in drifts / Over vineyard and field and town, / Whenever he starts and lifts / His head through the blackened rifts / Of the crags that keep him down
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A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance.
- My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
- Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, has opened a new rift with Donald Trump by denouncing the US president’s tax and spending bill as a “disgusting abomination”.
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A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
- I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
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A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
riftverb詞源 1/ɹɪft/
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To form a rift; to split open.
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To cleave; to rive; to split.
- to rift an oak
- to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt
riftverb詞源 2/ɹɪft/
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To belch.
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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。