(verb.) separate or cut with a tool, such as a sharp instrument; 'cleave the bone'.
(verb.) make by cutting into; 'The water is going to cleave a channel into the rock'.
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双语例句
But I hope you won't take it ill that I cleave to the child closer than words can tell, for he's the last living thing left me. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
There is but one alternative--to cleave to him as if I were a part of him, or to be sundered from him wide as the two poles of a sphere. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
The more Robert knows of Shirley the more his soul will cleave to her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
The ship's prow cleaved on, with a faint noise of cleavage, into the complete night, without knowing, without seeing, only surging on. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Like a child at the breast, he cleaved intensely to her, and she could not put him away. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
She cleaved to him, and he could feel his blood changing like quicksilver. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
He could not forget Gudrun's lifted, offered, cleaving, reckless, yet withal mocking weight. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Gerald was excited by the desperate cleaving of Gudrun to Naomi. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Vainly striving to utter a cry of terror, with his tongue cleaving to his mouth, he rushed madly forward. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
I could have pledged him with all my soul, said Athelstane, for my tongue cleaves to my palate. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.
I tried it on a Moslem, and clove him in twain like a doughnut. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
It fell straight, and true as a die; clove the water with a scarcely audible splash; and was gone. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
A solitary sea-gull winged its flight over our heads, to seek its nest in a cleft of the precipice. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Tis cleft-wood, that's what 'tis, said Timothy Fairway. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
The Austrian crown is a sort of cleft tiara, having in the middle a semicircle of gold supporting a mound and cross; the tiara rests on a circle with pendants like those of a miter. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Venn looked gloomy, threw--the die was seen to be lying in two pieces, the cleft sides uppermost. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
They are for the use of horses, but they are shaped below with a cloven foot of iron, so as to throw pursuers off the track. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
Have the cloven tongues come down again? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
This very sword has cloven hundreds of Saracen Knights from crown to chin in those old times when Godfrey wielded it. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.