fathoms

fathoms

美 [ˈfæðəm] 　英 ['fæðəm]

• v.推测；测(水)深；测深；进行探索
• n.英寻(测量水深用的长度单位,合6英尺,或1.829米)
• 网络噚；海底潜航；浔

词形变化

复数：fathoms  现在分词：fathoming  过去式：fathomed  

同义词

英汉解释

n.	1. 英寻(测量水深用的长度单位,合6英尺,或1.829米) 2. 〈英〉剖面为一平方英寻的(木材)量
v.	1. 推测,领会,看穿 2. 测(水)深 3. 测深;进行探索

英英解释

n.	1. a unit for measuring the depth of water, equal to 1.8 meters or 6 feet
v.	1. to understand something complicated or mysterious

例句

During most raging storms, the water a hundred fathoms (600 feet) beneath the surface is just as calm as on a day without a breath of wind.

在多数发怒的风暴期间，水一一百英寻（600英尺）在表面之下是正安静象在一天没有微风。

Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the clouds, it is sixty fathoms long, and its diameter at its base is three feet.

从它那深入坞底的根算起，直达那伸在云中的尖端，它有六十脱阿斯长，底的直径也有三尺。

Once we came across a school of hippopotami, which rose, and bellowed dreadfully at us within ten or a dozen fathoms of the boat.

有一次我们遇到一群河马，离我们的船有十至十二码的样子，正一沉一浮地怪叫着朝我们游来，样子十分可怕。

There's five fathoms out there, he said. It'll be swept up that way when the tide comes in about one.

“那一带有五深，”他说，一点钟左右涨潮，它就会朝那边浮去了。

It seemed an endless cavern, and might be about fifty fathoms deep.

这个似乎是没有底的洞，至少有三百英尺深。

The pyramid was situated 22 fathoms down, stood 120 feet high, with only 90 feet projecting out of the sea floor shifting sands.

金字塔是位于22英寸厚沙子下，有120英尺高的，且只有90尺突出的海床改变原有沙子。

Down in the blue water at one hundred and one hundred and twenty-five fathoms.

百啊及一百二十五啊深蓝色的海水中。

The currents also seldom involve more than the upper several hundred fathoms despite their impressive sweep.

虽然有着横扫一切的气势，洋流也很少影响到数百英寻下的水面。

Toward noon a marlin started nibbling at the bait which was one hundred fathoms down.

快到中午时，一条马林鱼开始啃起一百英寻深处的那块鱼饵来了。

Ten minutes afterwards, the sails were furled, and they cast anchor about a hundred fathoms from the little harbor.

十分钟以后，水手收起帆，在离小港口外五百尺的地方抛下锚。

And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.

就探深浅，探得有十二丈，稍往前行，又探深浅，探得有九丈。

Came to the end of the 40 fathoms just snapped it like a string. . .

到了最后这个40噚的锚链就像一根绳正好猛地咬住船…

Nautical A length of chain equal to 15 fathoms (90 feet) in the United States and 12 fathoms (75 feet) in Great Britain.

一个锚链的长度，在美国合15英寸（90英尺），在英国合12.5英寸。

I love thee beyond the fathoms I knew my soul could reach. . .

我爱你之深，竟越过自己所知我的灵魂所能触及的尽头…

I will have lost two hundred fathoms of good Catalan carden and the hooks and leaders.

这样我将会损失两百啊上好的卡特兰线和钩子，还有导管。

Sailors measure the depth of the water in fathoms .

水手用英寻来测量水深。

The river shoals suddenly here from eight to two fathoms .

在这个地方河面一下子从八降到两英寸。

I would like to fly very slowly at two hundred fathoms high and see the fish from above.

我希望在两百英寻的高度飞得极慢极慢，从空中看鱼。

and in the course of a few hundred miles reaches the true ocean floor at 2, 500-3, 500 fathoms.

一直延伸到几百英里远深达2,500至3,500的地方，那里才是真正的海底。

By the mark--four fathoms.

水深—四英寻。

Sir James Clark Ross had obtained a sounding of over 2, 400 fathoms in 1839,

1839年，詹姆斯.克拉克.罗斯爵士曾测得海水深度超过2,400英寻；