- 1及腰深的；深及腰部
Deep enough to come up to your waist — used about water, snow, mud, long grass, anything you can stand in. 'We waist-deep into the river' means the water reached our middles. It works as an adjective before a noun ('waist-deep snow') and as an adverb after the verb ('he stood waist-deep in the sea'). English has a whole family built the same way: ankle-deep, knee-deep, chest-deep, waist-deep. People also use it for a feeling — 'waist-deep in paperwork' means buried in it, though 'knee-deep' and 'neck-deep' are more common for that. Whose waist? The speaker's, or whoever is standing there — so it is a rough measure, not a number, and that is exactly why people like it: you feel the depth instead of counting it.
組成waist (the middle of your body) + deep. A compound of the pattern body-part + deep, written with a hyphen.
同家族的字
- knee-deepsame body-part + deep pattern
- waist-highsame waist- + measure pattern
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
waist-deepadj
- 1
As deep as would reach to the waist (of a standing person).
- Near-synonym: waist-high
- When the river broke through defenses near the city of Wuhan in Hopeh^([sic – meaning Hupeh]) Province, Peking Radio reported that 10,000 peasants with straw mats on their backs stood waist-deep in the water to form a human dike until their places could be filled with sandbags.
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