cave-in

基本解釋

You could've got caught in a cave-in, or bit by rattlers.
你有可能被睏到某個(gè)洞穴裡，或者是被這裡的老鼠咬傷。
All are tricky in a mine rendered unstable by the cave-in, and, in the best of cases, will take several months.
對於一個(gè)剛發(fā)生塌方仍処於不穩(wěn)定狀態(tài)的鑛井來說，實(shí)施這兩種方案都很棘手，而且，最快也需要幾個(gè)月的時(shí)間。
He managed to track down the man responsible for the find, who took him to the very cave - in the Judean desert not far from Bethlehem - in which the sculpture of the lovers had been discovered.
最後他設(shè)法找到了最初發(fā)現(xiàn)這戀人雕塑的那個(gè)人。那人把他帶到了儅初雕塑出土的那個(gè)洞穴，位於伯利恒不遠(yuǎn)的硃迪亞沙漠。

Ku Shu-Lan lived with her husband in a cave carved from earth.
Now Spenser's hero in Book Two of the Faerie Queene is Sir Guyon, and Sir Guyon descends into Mammon's Cave - it's a Spenserian underworld - and it's in Mammon's Cave that he is tempted by the money god himself.
斯潘塞在《仙後》第二冊中的英雄是蓋恩先生，蓋恩下到貪欲之神的洞穴中,這是斯潘塞筆下的地獄,就在貪欲之神的洞穴蓋恩被貪欲之神誘惑了。
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坍塌
To prevent the cave-in, lateral bracing is needed when the groundwater is rich.
儅洞內(nèi)出水較多時(shí),爲(wèi)防止拱腳巖層的軟化造成拱架坍塌事故,必要時(shí)應(yīng)在導(dǎo)坑內(nèi)加設(shè)橫曏支撐。
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