• n. 火山口；彈坑
• vt. 在…上形成坑；取消；毀壞
• vi. 形成坑；消亡

來自PIE*sker, 轉(zhuǎn)，彎，攪拌，詞源同cradle, crib. 原義為攪拌東西的大海碗，后指碗狀的火山口。

crater

crater: [17] Greek kratér meant ‘bowl’, or more specifically ‘mixing bowl’: it was a derivative of the base *kerā, which also produced the verb kerannúnai ‘mix’. (Crater or krater is still used in English as a technical term for the bowl or jar used by the ancient Greeks for mixing wine and water in.) Borrowed into Latin as crātēr, it came to be used metaphorically for the bowl-shaped depression at the mouth of a volcano. Its acquisition by English is first recorded in Samuel Purchas’s Pilgrimage 1619.

crater (n.)

1610s, from Latin crater, from Greek krater "bowl for mixing wine with water," from kera- "to mix," from PIE root *kere- "to mix, confuse; cook" (see rare (adj.2)). Used in Latin for bowl-shaped mouth of a volcano. Applied to features of the Moon since 1831 (they originally were thought to be volcanic). As a verb, from 1830 in poetry, 1872 in science. Related: Cratered; cratering.

1. A huge crater marks the spot where the explosion happened.

巨大的彈坑標(biāo)明了爆炸發(fā)生的地點。

來自柯林斯例句

2. When a large object impacts the Earth, it makes a crater.

當(dāng)巨大物體撞擊地球時，就會產(chǎn)生凹坑。

來自柯林斯例句

3. With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve - suvius.

用望遠(yuǎn)鏡你能看到巨大的維蘇威火山口.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. They came to the lip of a dead crater.

他們來到了一個 火山口.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. The crater was two miles across and roughly circular.

這個火山口2英里寬,差不多是一個圓形.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》