| 英语单词 | cavity |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['kævəti] 美 ['kævəti] |
| 中文释义 | n.洞;空穴;腔;蛀洞 |
| 英语例句 | (1) I have a toothache because there is a cavity in one of my teeth. (2) The peritoneal cavity is a closed sac. (3) The tumor growing in the enteric cavity blocked excretion of food. (4) The dentist carefully located the filling in the cavity. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 我牙疼,因为我的一颗牙齿上有个洞。 (2) 腹膜腔是一个封闭的囊腔。 (3) 肿瘤在肠腔里生长阻碍了食物排泄。 (4) 牙医小心地把填塞的东西放入牙洞里。 |
| vocabulary简明 | A cavity is a carved-out space inside something solid like a wall or a tooth. If you have a cavity, you have a hole in your tooth, and it’s time to go to the dentist for a filling. Lucky you. |
| vocabulary扩展 | Doctors sometimes refer to various internal body parts as cavities, such as the "abdominal cavity," which includes the stomach and other hollow parts of the abdomen. You are more likely to hear the word at the dentist’s office, when she finds a cavity, which is a space in your tooth that's been eaten away by decay. Fun! (Not.) Cavity shares the Latin root cavus, "hollow," with the word cave. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]洞;孔;腔 A cavity is a space or hole in something such as a solid object or a person's body. [FORMAL 正式] 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词](牙科)龋洞,蛀牙洞 In dentistry, a cavity is a hole in a tooth, caused by decay. [TECHNICAL 术语] |
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