cave on• After a few hours, the cage starts to cave in on the divers.
cave to• We were afraid that Fifi was caving in to family pressure and regressing into some nice third-world girl.• They accused the government, which is led by Hindu nationalists, of caving in toforeign pressure.
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cave• Sixty foot drops are not really much to write home about when some one's been caving as long as he has.• Will Grijalva cave in and go with Postil?• In October, on 3 October 1985, I was feeling so depressed I thought the walls were caving in on me.• It is clear that the walls around the governor are caving in.• Newport looked poised to run away with it, but Bridgend refused to cave in.
Origincave1
(1200-1300)Old FrenchLatincava, from cavus“hollow”
cave2
(1700-1800) Probably from calve“to cave in”((18-19 centuries)), perhaps from Flemishinkalven; influenced by → CAVE1
ADJECTIVE | VERB + CAVE | CAVE + VERB | CAVE + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤deep, large深洞穴;大洞穴▸➤shallow, small淺洞穴;小洞穴▸➤dark黑暗的洞穴▸➤damp, dank潮濕的洞;陰冷潮濕的洞穴▸➤mountain, rocky, underground山洞;岩洞;地下洞穴◇We explored the rocky caves along the beach.我們沿着沙灘勘察岩洞。➤ice, limestone冰洞;石灰岩洞VERB + CAVE➤explore勘探洞穴CAVE + VERB➤collapse洞穴坍塌◇a collapsed limestone cave坍塌了的石灰岩洞CAVE + NOUN➤ceiling, entrance, floor, mouth, opening, roof, wall洞頂;洞口;洞底;洞壁▸➤complex, system洞穴群;洞穴系統▸➤art, drawing, painting洞穴藝術;洞穴繪畫▸➤dweller穴居人PREPOSITION➤in a/the cave在洞穴裏◇We took shelter in a dark cave.我們躲避在一個黑暗的洞穴裏。PHRASES➤the ceiling of a cave, the floor of a cave, the roof of a cave, the wall of a cave洞頂;洞底;洞壁▸➤the entrance to a cave, the mouth of a cave洞口