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fathom

英 /ˈfæðəm/美 /ˈfæðəm/
  • n.
    英寻（测量水深单位，合6英尺或1.8米）
  • v.
    深刻理解，彻底弄清（难题或神秘的人）；测量（水）的深度
复数fathoms
第三人称单数fathoms
现在分词fathoming
过去式fathomed
过去分词fathomed
GRE

词语例句

  1. 英寻（测量水深单位，合6英尺或1.8米）cn.

    • We sailed into the bay and dropped anchor in five fathoms of water.

      我们航行进入海湾，在水深5英寻处抛锚。

  2. 深刻理解，彻底弄清（难题或神秘的人）vt.

    • We're trying to fathom out what's going on.

      我们正在努力弄清楚发生了什么事。

  3. 测量（水）的深度vt.

    • The team is trying to fathom the ocean.

      这个团队正在尝试测量海洋深度。

  1. A sea kayaker navigates the rocks around Flowerpot Island in Ontario's Fathom Five National Marine Park.
    在安大略省的五英寻国家海洋公园里，一名海上皮划艇运动员在花盆岛周围的岩石间穿行。
  2. We're trying to fathom out what's going on.
    我们正在努力弄清楚发生了什么事。
    来自《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
  3. He couldn't fathom out what the man could possibly mean.
    他弄不清这个男人的意思。
    来自《牛津词典》

网络短语

  • fathom line
    等深线；测量索；测量线；等〕㖊线
  • Fathom-Lord Karathress
    深水领主卡拉塞斯；深水领主卡拉瑟雷斯；径深领主卡拉瑟斯；深渊之王卡拉萨瑞斯
  • Death's Fathom
    死亡深度
  • Fathom Studios
    作为测深工作室；作为测深事情室
  • Full Fathom Five
    海神的召唤

词语扩展

vt.
see throughlook through
看穿；彻底了解；测量…的深度
adj.
fathomable看得透的；可测明深度的；可了解的

词义分布

彻底了解
50%
英寻
50%

英英释义

  • n.a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth
  • n.(mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore
  • v.come to understand
  • v.measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line

词源

  • fathom法寻，彻底了解
    来自PIE*pet, 展开，伸展，词源同feather, compete. 用作长度单位法寻，约略等于成人双臂展开长度。引申词义探索，彻底了解。
  • fathom
    From Middle English fathome, fadome, from Old English fæþm, fæþme ‎(“outstretched or encircling arms, embrace, grasp, protection, interior, bosom, lap, breast, womb, fathom, cubit, power, expanse, surface”), from Proto-Germanic *faþmaz ‎(“embrace”), from Proto-Indo-European *pet- ‎(“to spread out, extend”). Cognate with Low German fadem, faem ‎(“a cubit, thread”), Dutch vadem, vaam ‎(“fathom”), German Faden ‎(“thread, filament, fathom”), Danish favn ‎(“embrace, fathom”), Swedish famn ‎(“the arms, bosom, embrace”), Icelandic faðmur ‎(“embrace”), Latin pateō, Ancient Greek πετάννυμι ‎(petánnumi).