crevice: [14] Rather like crack, the word crevice began with the notion of the sharp noise of breaking and gradually developed to denote the fissure caused by such a break. It comes ultimately from the Latin verb crepāre ‘creak, rattle, crack’ (source of English crepitation [17] and decrepit, and probably also of craven), which passed into Old French as crever ‘burst, split’. From this was derived the noun crevace, borrowed into Middle English as crevace or crevisse. In modern French it developed into crevasse, which English reborrowed in the 19th century. => craven, crepitation, crevasse, decrepit
crevice (n.)
mid-14c., from Old French crevace (12c., Modern French crevasse) "gap, rift, crack" (also, vulgarly, "the female pudenda"), from Vulgar Latin *crepacia, from Latin crepare "to crack, creak" (see raven); meaning shifted from the sound of breaking to the resulting fissure.
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1. He edged the tool into the crevice.
他把刀具**裂缝里.
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2. And a roach spans a crevice in the floor.
一只蟑螂爬过了地板的裂缝.
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3. I saw a plant growing out of a crevice in the wall.
我看到墙缝里长出一棵草来.
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4. Striving for life in crevice is the realistic circumstances of centual China.
在西部和东部经济阔步前进的同时,“夹缝之中求生存”才是中部经济的真实境遇.
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5. This paper deals with the crevice structure in boride layer.
