fathoms

英 [ˈfæðəmz] 美 [ˈfæðəmz]

v.  理解; 彻底了解; 弄清真相
n.  英寻(测量水深单位，合6英尺或1.8米)
fathom的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

  1. N-COUNT 英寻(度量单位，等于 1.8 米或 6 英尺，用于指水深)
    A fathom is a measurement of 1.8 metres or 6 feet, used when referring to the depth of water.
    1. We sailed into the bay and dropped anchor in five fathoms of water.
      我们驶进海湾，将锚抛进 5 英寻深的水里。
  2. VERB 透彻理解;深入了解;弄清…的真相
    If you cannot fathom something, you are unable to understand it, although you think carefully about it.
    1. I really couldn't fathom what Steiner was talking about...
      我真搞不懂斯坦纳在说些什么。
    2. Jeremy's passive attitude was hard to fathom.
      杰里米的消极态度令人费解。
    3. Fathom out means the same as fathom .
      fathom out 同 fathom
    4. We're trying to fathom out what's going on...
      我们在尽力搞清楚发生了什么事情。
    5. I'm having difficulty using my video editing equipment and can't fathom out the various connections.
      我不会使用视频编辑设备，而且搞不清各种各样的连接。
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双语例句

  1. And now something most wonderful, fortunately in full sunlight-or as full as it can be when it falls through fathoms of water-flashed into sight.
    眼下，幸亏阳光充足阳光照进深深的海底能有多亮就有多亮有样最奇妙的东西闪现在眼前。
  2. Ten minutes afterwards, the sails were furled, and they cast anchor about a hundred fathoms from the little harbor. We went with Peter, whose car broke down before we were halfway there.
    十分钟以后，水手收起帆，在离小港口外五百尺的地方抛下锚。我们和彼得一起去的，他的车子在半路上就抛锚了。
  3. It seemed an endless cavern, and might be about fifty fathoms deep.
    这个似乎是没有底的洞，至少有三百英尺深。
  4. The second was at seventy-five and the third and fourth were down in the blue water at one hundred and one hundred and twenty-five fathoms.
    第二个在七十五英寻的深处，第三个和第四个分别在蓝色海水中一百英寻和一百二十五英寻的深处。
  5. The bar silver is in the north cache; you can find it by the trend of the east hummock, ten fathoms south of the black crag with the face on it.
    银条在北面秘窖，可顺着东边圆丘的斜坡，在黑岩石以南十寻处找到。
  6. Came to the end of the40 fathoms just snapped it like a string
    到了最后这个40噚的锚链就像一根绳正好猛地咬住船
  7. The channel into the harbour is twenty fathoms.
    进港航道深度为20英碍。
  8. I would like to fly very slowly at two hundred fathoms high and see the fish from above.
    我希望在两百英寻的高度飞得极慢极慢，从空中看鱼。
  9. This article fathoms the characteristic of information spread and how to control information flow effectively.
    本文对复杂网络上信息传播的特点以及如何有效控制信息传播进行了探索。
  10. Nature and the green leaves are a million fathoms deep, and it is their eyes that are superficial.
    自然界以及绿叶是极度深刻的，肤浅的知识人们的眼睛。
  11. Sailors measure the depth of the water in fathoms.
    海员测量海水的深度用“英寻”表示。
  12. There's five fathoms out there, he said. It'll be swept up that way when the tide comes in about one.
    “那一带有五深，”他说，一点钟左右涨潮，它就会朝那边浮去了。
  13. Tonight the haddock were shoaling massively in three hundred fathoms.
    今晚鳕鱼将要大量群集在距岸三百浔的地方。
  14. Now, I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue, in mysterious fathoms below, there is a beautiful little mermaid.
    在湛蓝的海底，住着美丽的小美人鱼。有一天，小美人鱼见到了人类的王子。
  15. Others let them drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred.
    别的渔夫让钓索随着海流漂去，有时候钓索在六十英寻的深处，他们却自以为在一百英寻的深处呢。
  16. I will have lost two hundred fathoms of good Catalan cardel and the hooks and leaders.
    我将丢掉两百英寻出色的卡塔卢尼亚钓索，还有钓钩和导线。
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