dive
1.V-I If you dive into some water, you jump in head first with your arms held straight above your head. 跳水
例:He tried to escape by diving into a river.
他企图跳入河中逃走。
例:She was standing by a pool, about to dive in.
她正站在池边,准备跳进去。
2.N-COUNT Dive is also a noun. 跳水
例:Pat had earlier made a dive of 80 feet from the Chasm Bridge.
早些时,帕特曾从卡泽姆大桥进行过80英尺高的跳水。
3.V-I If you dive, you go under the surface of the sea or a lake, using special breathing equipment. 潜水
例:Bezanik is diving to collect marine organisms.
贝赞尼克正在潜水采集海洋生物。
4.N-COUNT Dive is also a noun. 潜水
例:This sighting occurred during my dive to a sunken wreck off Sardinia.
这次亲眼所见发生在我向撒丁岛外一艘沉船潜水的期间。
5.V-I When birds and animals dive, they go quickly downward, head first, through the air or through water. 俯冲
例:...a pelican which had just dived for a fish.
一只刚刚下潜捕鱼的鹈鹕。
6.V-I If you dive in a particular direction or into a particular place, you jump or move there quickly. 跃向; 冲向
例:They dived into a taxi.
他们冲进了出租车。
7.N-COUNT Dive is also a noun. 冲; 扑
例:He made a sudden dive for Uncle Jims legs to try to trip him up.
他猛地扑向吉姆大叔的双腿,试图绊倒他。
8.V-I If shares, profits, or figures dive, their value falls suddenly and by a large amount. 突然暴跌
例:They feared the stock could dive after its first day of trading.
他们担心这支股票在其第一个交易日后会暴跌。
例:Profits have dived from $7.7m to $7.1m.
利润从770万美元骤跌至710万美元。
9.N-COUNT Dive is also a noun. 骤降
例:Stock prices took a dive.
股票价格暴跌。
10.N-COUNT If you describe a bar or club as a dive, you mean it is dirty and dark, and not very respectable. 低级酒吧; 低级夜总会
例:Weve played in all the little clubs and dives around Philadelphia.
我们玩遍了费城所有的小酒吧和低级夜总会。
常见用法
用作名词
Our dive is a part of this expedition.
我们这次潜水活动就是属于这个远航的一部分。
What a beautiful dive!
多么优美的跳水!
用作不及物动词
He dived from the bridge and rescued the drowning child.
他从桥上跳入水中,救起溺水的孩子。
The eagle dived down on the rabbit.
那只鹰向兔子猛扑下来。
Children always dive to the bottom of a subject.
孩子们对问题总是追根究底的。
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