名词

1. （从上到下的）深（度）
The depth of something such as a river or hole is the distance downwards from its top surface, or between its upper and lower surfaces.

2. （从前到后的）深（度）；纵深
The depth of something such as a cupboard or drawer is the distance between its front surface and its back.

3. (感情的)深厚，深切
If an emotion is very strongly or intensely felt, you can talk about its depth .

4. 严重性;严峻性
The depth of a situation is its extent and seriousness.

5. (知识等的)渊博
The depth of someone's knowledge is the great amount that they know.

6. (颜色的)浓度
The depth of a colour is its intensity and strength.

7. (照片、画作等的)景深
In photography and art, you say that a picture has depth or depth of field when you mean that it appears three-dimensional rather than flat.

8. 深刻;深奥
If you say that someone or something has depth, you mean that they have serious and interesting qualities which are not immediately obvious and which you have to think about carefully before you can fully understand them.

9. (海洋或陆地的)深处,深渊
The depths are places that are a long way below the surface of the sea or earth.

10. （某一区域的）深处，腹地
If you talk about the depths of an area, you mean the parts of it which are very far from the edge.

11. (某一不快感情的)极限
If you are in the depths of an unpleasant emotion, you feel that emotion very strongly.

12. …的中间部分;…最严重的时候;…最强烈的时候
If something happens in the depths of a difficult or unpleasant period of time, it happens in the middle and most severe or intense part of it.

13. 深入地;彻底地;全面地
If you deal with a subject in depth, you deal with it very thoroughly and consider all the aspects of it.

14. 应付不了;力所不及
If you say that someone is out of their depth, you mean that they are in a situation that is much too difficult for them to be able to cope with it.

15. 在水深没顶的地方
If you are out of your depth, you are in water that is deeper than you are tall, with the result that you cannot stand up with your head above water.

16. to plumb new depths - see plumb
to plumb the depths - see plumb

1. degree of psychological or intellectual profundity

2. the attribute or quality of being deep, strong, or intense

e.g. the depth of his breathing
the depth of his sighs,the depth of his emotion

3. the extent downward or backward or inward

e.g. the depth of the water
depth of a shelf
depth of a closet

Synonym: deepness

4. the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

Synonym: astutenessprofundityprofoundnessdeepness

5. (usually plural) the deepest and most remote part

e.g. from the depths of darkest Africa
signals received from the depths of space

6. (usually plural) a low moral state

e.g. he had sunk to the depths of addiction