gap/breach/break/chink/cleft.导航词义：裂缝

1. gap:n. 裂缝；差距.指同一物体的两部分或两者之间的空间、差别、差距等。

There is a gap in the wall.

墙上有道裂缝。

He pushed through a gap which the man was repairing.

他冲过那个人正在修补的一个缺口。

The gap between the two parties has narrowed considerably.

双方的隔阂已大大缩小。

2. breach:n. 裂口，缺口.指防护墙、堤坝等上的缺口。

There is a breach in the castle wall.

城堡墙壁上有个缺口。

The waves made a breach in the sea wall.

海浪将防波堤冲开了一个缺口。

3. break:n. 裂口，裂缝.普通用词，可指各种事物的裂隙、缺口等。

There is a break in the water pipe.

水管上有个裂口。

The moon shone through a break in the clouds.

月光透过云层的缝隙照射下来。

4. chink:n. 裂缝，裂隙.指墙上、窗帘接合部之间等可透过风、光线的小裂缝。

Wind came through a chink in the wall.

风从墙上的裂缝中透了进来。

Through a chink in the wall she could see a bit of the blue sky.

透过墙上的缝隙她可以看到一线蓝天。

5. cleft:n. 裂缝，裂口.尤指岩石等表面自然的裂缝。

He was stuck in a cleft of the rocks.

他被卡在一个岩石缝里。

He hid the message in a cleft of the stone.

他把情报藏在石头的裂缝里。

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1·His death left an enormous gap in my life.

他去世给我的生活留下巨大的空白。《牛津词典》

2·The product has filled a gap in the market.

这个产品填补了市场的空白。《牛津词典》

3·By 1973, this gap had narrowed almost to vanishing point.

到1973年，这一差距已缩小到几乎为零。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

4·The gap between the two top teams is closing all the time.

两支顶尖队的差距一直在缩小。《牛津词典》

5·The gap between the two teams has narrowed to three points.

两队之间的差距缩小到三分了。《牛津词典》

6·These measures are aimed at closing the gap between rich and poor.

这些措施旨在缩小贫富差距。《牛津词典》

7·The gap between the best and poorest childcare provision has widened.

儿童保育供给的最佳和最低水准之间加大了差距。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

8·She brought him a sense of fun, of gaiety that filled a gap in his life.

她带给他一种快乐、欢愉的感觉，填补了他生命中的空白。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

9·A cheaper range of products was introduced to plug the gap at the lower end of the market.

推出相对廉价的一系列产品，是为了填补较低档市场的缺口。《牛津词典》

10·Clearly, a stress gap exists.

显然，压力差距是存在的。

差距

1·The gap between the best and poorest childcare provision has widened.

儿童保育供给的最佳和最低水准之间加大了差距。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Clearly, a stress gap exists.

显然，压力差距是存在的。

3·There is no narrowing of the gap in sight.

差距在短期内不会缩小。

4·There are other reasons why the pay gap remains so persistent.

工资差距保持如此之大还有其他原因。

5·There are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.

最近有迹象表明，这一差距可能开始缩小。

间隙

1·What if there is a long time gap between the authorization and the capture?

如果在授权和捕获之间有一个长的时间间隙，那会怎么样呢？

2·Silence may be viewed by some cultural groups as extremely uncomfortable; therefore attempts may be made to fill every gap with conversation.

一些文化群体可能对沉默感到极度不舒服，因此试图用对话填补每个间隙。

3·In vertebrates, gap junction hemichannels are primarily homo- or hetero-hexamers of connexin proteins.

在脊椎动物中，间隙连接的半通道主要是连接蛋白的同型或异型六聚体。

4·Experimental rats were intrathecally injected with carbenoxolone, a special gap junction blocker, and the control rats with the saline.

给实验大鼠鞘内注射羧苄索龙（一种特殊的间隙连接阻滞剂），向对照组大鼠注射生理盐水。

5·Whether Gadamer means that when he speaks of gap or whether he simply means an abyss or a distance to be crossed I couldn't say.

当葛达玛说到间隙时是那个意思,还是仅仅认为它是需要跨越的一个深渊或者一段距离,我不能确定。

缺口

1·A cheaper range of products was introduced to plug the gap at the lower end of the market.

推出相对廉价的一系列产品，是为了填补较低档市场的缺口。《牛津词典》

2·Their wings can bridge the gap between lines, resulting in electrocution if they touch two lines at once.

它们的翅膀可以连接两根线之间的缺口，如果同时接触两根线，就会触电。

3·There is a gap in working-class jobs, but the workers who need those jobs most aren't equipped to do them.

工薪阶层的工作岗位中存在一一个缺口，但是最需要这些工作的工人却不具备相应的工作技能。

4·Giving more children this training could increase the number of people interested in the field and help fill the jobs gap, Cortina said.

科尔蒂纳说，让更多的孩子接受这种培训，可以增加对这一领域感兴趣的人数，有助于填补就业缺口。

5·Simpson claims that traders were not simply dealing with the gap option.

辛普森声称交易员不是简单地处理缺口期权。

隙

1·Spark plugs only ignite the fuel mixture near the spark gap, reducing the combustion efficiency, and the metal that makes them up is slowly eroded as they age.

火花塞只点燃火花隙附近的燃料混合物，这就降低了燃烧效率，并且随着使用年限增加火花塞中的金属慢慢被侵蚀。

2·However, unlike the semiconductor silicon, graphene has no gap between its valence and conduction bands.

然而，与半导体硅不同，石墨烯的价带和导带之间没有带隙。

3·The installation of a Watts air gap with the drain line terminating above a floor drain will handle any normal discharge or nuisance spitting through the relief valve.

连接通向地漏的排泄管的美国瓦茨气隙的安装将有助于处理通过安全阀排出的任何正常排放或有害的泄漏。

4·Accurate matching with small gap, easy maintenance with no worries.

配合准隙小，维护方便，没有后顾之忧。

5·The cafe on the melodious sound of the piano, the warmth of the sun through micro gap atmosphere, if long, Shu, put everything full of emptiness.

咖啡馆里放着悠扬的钢琴声，温暖的阳光穿梭于微隙的气息，舒倘，漫长，把天地间一切空虚盈满。

空隙

1·Leave a gap at the top and bottom so air can circulate.

在顶部和底部各留一点空隙，这样空气就可以流通了。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·For instance, say your application requires a container that vertically stacks display objects but without any gap in between.

比方说，您的应用程序要求一个容器能够垂直堆叠显示对象而不在其间留空隙。

3·We know the water moves downwards when its left to itself as in rain, but you see if it moves downward on the right that would leave a gap, vacuum a hole in the pipe.

我们知道水都是往下运动的，就好比如同下雨一样，但是你会发现如果在右边的水也向下运动，就会产生一个空隙，在吸管里会有一段真空部分。

4·One of the house's four bedrooms is suspended above this room, but a gap between the walls allows natural light down from skylights above.

房子的四间睡房之一悬吊在这间房子上面，但是墙与墙之间留出了空隙，自然光可以同光上面天窗透射进来。

5·They carry a nerve impulse across the gap between nerve cells.

它们把神经冲动带到神经细胞之间的空隙中。

缝隙

1·As with the floor, I left a gap around the tree trunk to allow for growth, as well as movement in strong winds.

我在环绕树干的地板上留下一条缝隙，让树木能够生长，也能随着强风摇摆。

2·Who pens a few sheep in a gap of cloud.

在白云的缝隙当中关进了几只羊。

3·The history of the issue suggests that the enterprise architect will have other things to worry about (like architecture issues), which may create a gap in responsibilities that is not easy to bridge.

问题的历史暗示，企业架构师有其他要担心的事情（像架构问题），这可能形成了很难逾越的职责缝隙。

4·The wiring diagram for the gap junctions is quite different from that of the synapses.

缝隙连接的接线图和突触的接线图非常不同。

5·That leaves a gap for extremists on the left and right, peddling dead-end solutions.

但这恰好为两翼的极端分子留有一个缝隙，以宣扬兜售一些毫无意义的解决方案。

分歧

1·Most recent opinion polls suggest that the gap between the two main parties has narrowed.

最近的民意调查表明，两个主要政党之间的分歧已经缩小。《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·A more pessimistic view is that today's impasse is not tactical, but the consequence of a widening gap between America and others over what the Doha round should achieve.

一个非常悲观的观点认为，今天的僵局并不是策略上的，而是美国和其他地区非常大分歧的结果，不是多哈回合谈判能够达成的。

3·The gap between the Fed and the rest is having its plainest effects in the currency markets.

美联储与世界其他国家的中央银行之间的分歧对货币市场的影响清晰可见。

4·The wide gap between the two sides is dampening optimism that the Istanbul talks will make substantial progress in resolving Iran's nuclear stance.

双方的分歧巨大，这给有关伊斯坦布尔会谈将在解决伊朗核立场问题上取得实质性进展的乐观情绪泼上了冷水。

5·Such modest steps may not fully close the perception gap, but there are few realistic alternatives.

此类温和措施可能不会彻底消除认知分歧，但除此之外没有什么现实的选择。

间距

1·NASA is hoping to start flying as soon as possible to close the gap in the U.S. manned space program.

美国宇航局希望尽快开始飞行，以尽可能结束美国载人航天计划的时间间距。

2·NASA is hoping to start flying as soon as possible to close the gap in the U. S. manned space program.

美国宇航局希望尽快开始飞行，以尽可能结束美国载人航天计划的时间间距。

3·However, fluctuating gap values cannot be efficiently compressed by some well-known prefix-free codes.

然而，剧烈变化的间距值并不能被著名的前缀自由代码有效编码压缩。

4·Moreover, the communication gap is a simple and convenient criterion to the effect of communication.

而传达间距是传达效果的一个简便的衡量标准。

5·The influence of dimension of magnetoresistive (MR) elements, the gap between magnetic drum and MR elements on the properties of the device is also discussed.

讨论了MR条的几何尺寸、磁鼓与MR器件间的间距对器件性能的影响。

裂口

1·At the time of the floods, the river and lake were at the same level and connected through a gap in the hills near the modern villages of el-Lahun and Hawara.

洪水来临时，湖和河在同一水平面上，并且通过艾尔拉罕和哈瓦拉现代村庄附近山脉的一个裂口连接起来。

2·After careful analysis they found the clear signature of an object located within the gap in the dust disc, about one billion kilometers from the star.

在仔细分析后他们发现了明显的迹象，表明在尘埃盘的裂口处有一个物体，距离恒星大约十亿千米。

3·They then found a small object in the disc which may be the cause of the gap.

然后他们在盘上发现了一个小物体，可能是造成裂口的原因。

4·I ejaculated, pushing through a gap which the man was repairing, and making straight to the high road.

我突然喊叫起来，冲过那个人正在修补的一个裂口，直往大路跑去。

5·Astronomers studying t Chamaeleontis (t Cha), a faint star 350 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Chamaeleon, detected a large gap in a disc of material around the star.

研究“t蜒”(T Cha)这颗在南天的蜒座中距地球350光年的黯淡恒星的天文学家们观测到在恒星周围的盘状物质中出现了一个大裂口。

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