cavern
/ˈkævən/ (bre, ipa) · [kˈævɚn] /ˈkævərn/ (ame, ipa) · [kˈævɚn] /ˈka-vərn How to pronounce cavern (audio) also -vrən/ (ame, mw)
cavern — 名詞
1. a large natural underground space, often found inside hills or mountains, usuall
大洞穴
比一般洞穴更大的天然地下空間
a large natural underground space, often found inside hills or mountains, usually formed by water dissolving rock over a very long time
Ananya crawled through a narrow tunnel into a vast cavern lit by glow-worms.
Ananya 爬過一條狹窄的隧道，進入了一個被螢火蟲照亮的巨大洞穴。
collocation: vast cavern
The river carved a deep cavern beneath the limestone cliff over thousands of years.
這條河流經過數千年，在石灰岩懸崖下方沖刷出一個大洞穴。
Keiko pointed her torch at the cavern ceiling, where bats hung in tight clusters.
Keiko 將手電筒照向洞穴頂部，那裡蝙蝠密密麻麻地倒掛著。
Imani stepped inside a cavern whose ceiling rose higher than any cathedral she had ever seen.
Imani 走進一個洞穴，其頂部比她見過的任何大教堂都還要高。
Fatima's voice echoed through the cavern, bouncing off every rocky wall.
Fatima 的聲音在洞穴中迴盪，從每一面岩壁反彈回來。
用法筆記
More formal and descriptive than the everyday word "cave." Use "cavern" when emphasising that the space is impressively large.
常見錯誤
cavern — 動詞
- cavernpresent simple I / you / we / they
- caverns3rd person singular
- caverning-ing form
- cavernedpast simple
1. to put someone or something into a large cave, or to shut them away as if inside
置於洞中
將人或物放入或如同放入大洞穴中
to put someone or something into a large cave, or to shut them away as if inside one
The cavers were caverned underground when a sudden rockfall sealed the only way out.
探洞者被關在洞穴深處，突如其來的落石封住了唯一的出路。
Three miners were caverned by the tunnel collapse and waited twelve hours for rescue.
三名礦工因隧道坍塌被封在洞穴中，等待救援長達十二小時。
Two hikers had been caverned inside a narrow gorge by a sudden cliff fall.
兩名登山者被突如其來的懸崖崩塌困在狹窄的峽谷洞穴裡。
After three days underground, two hikers who had been caverned by a sudden landslide were finally found alive.
在地下三天後，兩名因突然山崩而被關在洞穴中的登山者終於獲救生還。
文法句型
cavern + [someone/something]
用法筆記
Rare, literary verb. Most commonly appears in the passive voice ("were caverned," "had been caverned") to describe people trapped underground by a natural event.
2. to wear away or dig out rock and earth over time to form a large cave
掏空成洞
使岩石或土地形成大洞穴的過程
to wear away or dig out rock and earth over time to form a large cave
Over millennia, the river beneath the Yucatán Peninsula caverned the limestone into chambers the size of cathedrals.
數千年來，Yucatán 半島地下的河流將石灰岩掏空成如大教堂般寬闊的洞室。
collocation: caverned into
The Colorado River had slowly caverned the canyon wall from within over centuries, carving deep alcoves along the waterline.
Colorado 河經過數百年從內部慢慢掏空峽谷岩壁，沿水線鑿出深深的凹洞。
Relentless desert winds caverned the sandstone cliffs of Wadi Rum into chambers tall enough to stand inside.
無情的沙漠風將 Wadi Rum 的砂岩峭壁掏空成足以讓人站立其中的洞室。
In the late 1800s, prospectors caverned the slopes of Bisbee, Arizona, chasing a rich vein of copper ore.
十九世紀末，探礦者在 Arizona 的 Bisbee 山坡上掏挖礦石，追尋一條富銅礦脈。
文法句型
cavern + [rock/earth]
用法筆記
Rare verb. The subject is usually a natural force (water, wind) or a mining operation; the object is the rock or earth being hollowed out.