音标:[pri'sipitәs] ; 柯林斯词典等级:1 级;
a. 陡峭的, 轻率的
s done with very great haste and without due deliberation
s extremely steep

考试类型:[托福]
词性分布:
形容词100%

precipitous的用法和样例:

例句

用作形容词(adj.)
  1. We have a precipitous climb to the peak.我们向着陡峭山顶攀登。
  2. Over the past 18 months,there has been a precipitous fall in car sales.在过去的18个月里,汽车销量急转直下。
  3. They have made a precipitous decision.他们做出了一个急促的决定。

词汇搭配

  • precipitous sea怒涛

经典引文

  • The sweep Of some precipitous rivulet to the wave.

    出自:Tennyson
  • Anxiety..in murder cases..led to precipitous conclusions.

    出自:A. Cross
【近义词】
学英语单词
acute cardiac tamponade
anamorphic processes
antitussive agents
applied microchemistry
Atari
baby one more time
barcoders
Bendix-Weiss universal joint
Bermuda Rise
bilge and ballast system
blood picture
body hardware
by pass vavle escape pipe
calcaneovalgus
case irreducibility
cavilon
cell dimensions
change-wheel
Chavagnes
clinging to
core end
courbed
crab out of
crawling hum
cubic closed packed structure
D wave
Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank Limited
damaras
data-logging equipment
delirium post-traumaticum
dexiocardia
Dihidral
Eero Saarinen
ellipsoideus yeast
enolate ion
Eosat
epistolize
equiponderance, equiponderancy
Eugenia operculata
export sequence sheet
farm loan bond
flaggable
flow-induced
food-storage
give me some skin
glycerosone
half select current
header statement
homeotype
iber
Indiana limestone
intelligent cable interface
Jacqueville
katagenesis catagenesis
least squared error fitting
libertarianism
limacidaes
Little Waltham
live-streams
lock type base
manual perforated card
meter-correction factor
mineralization period
minit
multizone distance relaying device
neo
oleary
optical injector
Orquisteron-P
overall generator efficiency
pendulous heart
photochemical additoin
processional march
psychoanalytic school
pulsed plate column
quota agreement
rack your brain
Republicunts
resealed
riccardia angustata
rocketeer
rubber-heel
scotch scotch whisk(e)y
screen undersize
screening cage
security firm
shaanxis
sit light on
smylie
sorokin
standing sale
Sumburgh Head
summer-heat being likely to disturb heart
superacid
Table, Pte.de la
three equidistant supports
tunnel-fiber
Vatneyri
wattenberg
weather-watchers
welding symbol
West Germans