Depth

(noun.) degree of psychological or intellectual profundity.

(noun.) the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense; 'the depth of his breathing'; 'the depth of his sighs,' 'the depth of his emotion'.

(noun.) the extent downward or backward or inward; 'the depth of the water'; 'depth of a shelf'; 'depth of a closet'.

(noun.) (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part; 'from the depths of darkest Africa'; 'signals received from the depths of space'.

(noun.) (usually plural) a low moral state; 'he had sunk to the depths of addiction'.

海丝特编辑

• Animal and vegetable matter buried in the depth of the earth sometimes undergoes natural distillation, and as a result gas is formed. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• The horses' hoofs have bored holes in these rocks to the depth of six inches during the hundreds and hundreds of years that the castle was garrisoned. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They reveal a depth and range of meaning in experiences which otherwise might be mediocre and trivial. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• The length of time in boiling depends upon the depth of color desired. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• It is not sufficient that the bottom be strong; the sides likewise must support their strain, and hence must be increased in strength with depth. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Although we were anxious to leave England before the depth of winter, yet we were detained. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• First, the water might be run off by a descending pipe, if an offlet could be got at the depth of thirty-five or thirty-six feet, and any air might be extracted by a small pump. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I really think I saw tears rise to his eyes, from the depth of his own feeling of all this. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• During the experiment in Long Island Sound the pump was stopped for ten minutes, while the diver was at a depth of 100 feet. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The length of the Great Eastern was 692 feet, beam 83 feet, depth 57? feet, draft 25? feet, displacement 27,000 tons, and speed 12 knots. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A river's its natural depth, and he's his natural depth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• We also knew the width, length, and approximate depth of every one of these deposits, which were enormous. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The cut is nine miles long, 300 feet wide, 272 feet greatest depth and required the excavation of 100,000,000 cubic yards of material. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• One light glimmered in the depth. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The hull was 133 feet long, 18 feet beam, and 7 feet depth. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• If the central depths were untouched, hardly a pin-point of surface remained the same. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• It is necessary that this drawing be made in four operations; the first and second are particularly interesting, on account of their depths, which are 5-1/2 and 9-3/16 inches, respectively. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Half a dozen able-bodied men were standing in a line from the well-mouth, holding a rope which passed over the well-roller into the depths below. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• His honest eyes fire up, and sparkle, as if their depths were stirred by something bright. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He sowed different seeds from the same machine, and arranged that they might be covered at different depths. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The lightning is made his swift messenger, and thought flashes in submarine depths around the world. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The thought of Laura welled up like a spring in the depths of my heart, and filled it with waters of bitterness, never, never known to it before. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She realized the spell that had been upon her in the depths of that far-off jungle, but there was no spell of enchantment now in prosaic Wisconsin. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Whenever Mr. Snagsby and his conductors are stationary, the crowd flows round, and from its squalid depths obsequious advice heaves up to Mr. Bucket. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The azure of the sky penetrates the depths of the lake, and the waters are sweet and cool. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The low, bad, unimpressible face is coming up from the depths of the river, or what other depths, to the surface again. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Before I could overtake him he had sprung to the rail and hurled himself headforemost into the awful depths below. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• A device for continuously indicating on a galvanometer the depths of the ocean. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Don't use such dreadful expressions, replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• And then she was dragged out of my sight into the depths of the deserted edifice. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.

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