壁立 meaning in English
1.(耸立如壁) stand like a wall; stand bolt upright; rise steeply [perpendicularly]: 壁立的山峰 a sheer cliff; 壁立千尺 a sheer rise of a thousand feet
2.(指家境贫困) poverty-striken 短语和例子
Examples
- She came downstairs , down the steep , narrow wooden stairs
她向那壁立而狭小的楼梯下去。 - Forts . the wall rises and falls with the precipitous mountain ridge , while
城墙顺着壁立的山脊起伏伸延，敌楼高耸于群峰之上。 - The sheetlet design depicts the roaring tide and the natural scenery of qiantang jiang
小型张刻划了潮头壁立的奇观，以及钱塘江的自然景色。 - Iews it from a distance . it seems to stand like a jade column soaring info the sky in a dazzling cold lustre
临山仰望，似玉柱壁立，直插苍穹，寒光耀眼，巍峨秀丽。 - With vertical cliffs of some thousand meters high as its two flanks , the qutang gorge is only a few dozens of meters wide just like a narrow gateway
两岸断崖壁立，高数百丈，峡宽不及百尺，如狭窄门户。