rift

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 rĭft

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A chasm or fissure.
    — The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
  2. A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance. figuratively
    — My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
  3. A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
    — I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
  4. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
动词 v.
  1. To form a rift; to split open. intransitive
  2. To belch.
  3. past participle of rive form-of,obsolete,participle,past
    — The mightie trunck halfe rent, with ragged rift Doth roll adowne the rocks, and fall with fearefull drift.
  4. To cleave; to rive; to split. transitive
    — to rift an oak

词形变化

rifts plural rifts present,singular,third-person rifting participle,present rifted participle,past rifted past rifts present,singular,third-person rifting participle,present rifted participle,past rifted past

词汇关系

衍生词
palaeorift paleorift riftless rift saw riftsawn rift valley rifty rift zone

词源

词源 1
From Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.
词源 2
From Old Norse rypta.
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