cleft

noun

/kleft/

a natural opening or line, for example in the ground or in rock, or in a person’s chin (= part of the face below the mouth)（自然的）裂口，裂缝
- a cleft in the rocks岩石的裂缝
- They walked up a cleft in the hills.他们爬上了山上的一个裂缝。
- the cleft in his chin他下巴上的凹陷
词源noun Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to cleave ‘to split something in two’. The form of the word was altered in the 16th cent. by association with cleft, the past participle of ‘cleave’.

verb

/kleft/

past tense, past participle of cleave
词源noun Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to cleave ‘to split something in two’. The form of the word was altered in the 16th cent. by association with cleft, the past participle of ‘cleave’.

adjective

/kleft/

Idioms

be (caught) in a cleft stick

to be in a difficult situation when any action you take will have bad results进退维谷；陷入困境

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词汇	cleft
释义	cleft noun /kleft/ /kleft/ a natural opening or line, for example in the ground or in rock, or in a person’s chin (= part of the face below the mouth)（自然的）裂口，裂缝 a cleft in the rocks岩石的裂缝 They walked up a cleft in the hills.他们爬上了山上的一个裂缝。 the cleft in his chin他下巴上的凹陷词源noun Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to cleave ‘to split something in two’. The form of the word was altered in the 16th cent. by association with cleft, the past participle of ‘cleave’. cleft verb /kleft/ /kleft/ past tense, past participle of cleave 词源noun Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to cleave ‘to split something in two’. The form of the word was altered in the 16th cent. by association with cleft, the past participle of ‘cleave’. cleft adjective /kleft/ /kleft/ Idioms Idioms be (caught) in a cleft stick to be in a difficult situation when any action you take will have bad results进退维谷；陷入困境
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