fathoms

英 [ˈfæðəmz]

美 [ˈfæðəmz]

v.  理解; 彻底了解; 弄清真相
n.  英寻(测量水深单位，合6英尺或1.8米)
fathom的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 英寻(度量单位，等于 1.8 米或 6 英尺，用于指水深)
  Afathomis a measurement of 1.8 metres or 6 feet, used when referring to the depth of water.
  1. We sailed into the bay and dropped anchor in five fathoms of water.
     我们驶进海湾，将锚抛进 5 英寻深的水里。
• VERB 透彻理解;深入了解;弄清…的真相
  If you cannotfathomsomething, you are unable to understand it, although you think carefully about it.
  1. I really couldn't fathom what Steiner was talking about...
     我真搞不懂斯坦纳在说些什么。
  2. Jeremy's passive attitude was hard to fathom.
     杰里米的消极态度令人费解。
  3. Fathom outmeans the same asfathom.
     fathom out 同 fathom
  4. We're trying to fathom out what's going on...
     我们在尽力搞清楚发生了什么事情。
  5. I'm having difficulty using my video editing equipment and can't fathom out the various connections.
     我不会使用视频编辑设备，而且搞不清各种各样的连接。

双语例句

• There's five fathoms out there, he said. It'll be swept up that way when the tide comes in about one.
  “那一带有五深，”他说，一点钟左右涨潮，它就会朝那边浮去了。
• I would like to fly very slowly at two hundred fathoms high and see the fish from above.
  我希望在两百英寻的高度飞得极慢极慢，从空中看鱼。
• The channel into the harbour is twenty fathoms.
  进港航道深度为20英碍。
• Sailors measure the depth of the water in fathoms.
  海员测量海水的深度用“英寻”表示。
• Others let them drift with the current and sometimes they were at sixty fathoms when the fishermen thought they were at a hundred.
  别的渔夫让钓索随着海流漂去，有时候钓索在六十英寻的深处，他们却自以为在一百英寻的深处呢。
• I will have lost two hundred fathoms of good Catalan cardel and the hooks and leaders.
  我将丢掉两百英寻出色的卡塔卢尼亚钓索，还有钓钩和导线。
• It seemed an endless cavern, and might be about fifty fathoms deep.
  这个似乎是没有底的洞，至少有三百英尺深。
• Now, I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue, in mysterious fathoms below, there is a beautiful little mermaid.
  在湛蓝的海底，住着美丽的小美人鱼。有一天，小美人鱼见到了人类的王子。
• Ten minutes afterwards, the sails were furled, and they cast anchor about a hundred fathoms from the little harbor. We went with Peter, whose car broke down before we were halfway there.
  十分钟以后，水手收起帆，在离小港口外五百尺的地方抛下锚。我们和彼得一起去的，他的车子在半路上就抛锚了。
• The bar silver is in the north cache; you can find it by the trend of the east hummock, ten fathoms south of the black crag with the face on it.
  银条在北面秘窖，可顺着东边圆丘的斜坡，在黑岩石以南十寻处找到。