crevice

来自词根crep, 嘎吱作响，词源同decrepit, discrepancy.词义由嘎吱作响引申为裂缝。

crevice

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.

1. He edged the tool into the crevice.

他把刀具插进裂缝里.

2. And a roach spans a crevice in the floor.

一只蟑螂爬过了地板的裂缝.

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.

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.

5. This paper deals with the crevice structure in boride layer.

对渗硼层中的夹缝组织进行了分析研究.