cave-in

基本解釋

You could've got caught in a cave-in, or bit by rattlers.
你有可能被困到某個洞穴里，或者是被這里的老鼠咬傷。
All are tricky in a mine rendered unstable by the cave-in, and, in the best of cases, will take several months.
對于一個剛發(fā)生塌方仍處于不穩(wěn)定狀態(tài)的礦井來說，實施這兩種方案都很棘手，而且，最快也需要幾個月的時間。
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.
最后他設法找到了最初發(fā)現(xiàn)這戀人雕塑的那個人。那人把他帶到了當初雕塑出土的那個洞穴，位于伯利恒不遠的朱迪亞沙漠。

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《仙后》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.
當洞內(nèi)出水較多時,為防止拱腳巖層的軟化造成拱架坍塌事故,必要時應在導坑內(nèi)加設橫向支撐。
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