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单词 knee-deep
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Definition of knee-deep in English:

knee-deep

adverb & adjective niːˈdiːp
  • 1Of or at a depth or height to reach the knees.

    齐膝深的,没膝的

    as adjective the snow was almost knee-deep

    雪几乎齐膝深。

    as adverb his leg plunged knee-deep into the water

    他把腿踩入水中没过膝盖。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • With countless roots and fallen logs hidden under the brown, knee-deep water, each step is a calculated risk.
    • Nichola Richards was forced to shut the premises on Friday and Saturday, due to the store being knee-deep in water.
    • Eistaucher took a step towards me and stumbled; abruptly he was knee-deep in water.
    • Ethan was standing in knee-deep water, looking back the way they'd come.
    • Finally, with knee-deep water in the cabin 200 miles from Bermuda, he issued a Mayday call.
    • Teachers managed to save children's work at St Nicholas Primary School, but the building was knee-deep in water and remained closed last night.
    • Living in knee-deep coastal waters, this small creature buries itself in the sand during the day and comes out to hunt after dark.
    • Forty minutes of heavy rains turned Pattaya into a water world on Monday, with floodwaters knee-deep in places and cars breaking down in the waterlogged roads, causing traffic chaos.
    • She was standing in the restaurant when the second wave burst in, leaving her knee-deep in swirling, sandy water - but uninjured.
    • She's still homeless - three months after she was left knee-deep in water by a freak flood at her terraced house.
    • A burst water main caused chaos in a busy York shopping street today, flooding a supermarket and leaving a café knee-deep in water.
    • Climbing out of the glen was desperately hard work - knee-deep snow was the norm and occasionally I'd sink into drifts up to my thighs.
    • Another Campbell Street resident said his garage was knee-deep in water and his family was waiting for the fire brigade to pump water out of the garden, which was entirely submerged.
    • He and his family were awoken at about midnight to find themselves knee-deep in water after the storm drains overflowed.
    • The huge yard, on the outskirts of Lahore, was knee-deep in mud.
    • As the water on the road was knee-deep, engines of several light vehicles conked out and commuters were stranded, blocking the movement of heavy vehicles.
    • Eventually he wandered down to the river, where he found Jim standing knee-deep in the water.
    • When we left our home the water was only knee-deep.
    • Onlookers said the water was only knee-deep in the part of the lagoon where he fell in.
    • The snow covering the mountain pass is knee-deep and hard going.
    Synonyms
    full of, crowded with, overrun by, overflowing with, swarming with, teeming with, alive with, crawling with, hopping with, bristling with, thronged with, packed with, rife with, well supplied with, awash with, abounding in, abundant in, knee-deep in, rolling in
    1. 1.1as adjective Having more than one needs or wants of something.
      过多的
      we shall soon be knee-deep in conflicting legal views

      我们将很快就会有过多的在法律上相互抵触的观点。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He has spent much of his career knee-deep in immigration data, figuring out ways to measure the population, crunching the numbers and analyzing their policy implications.
      • In early 2000, I was knee-deep in business books, white papers, technology mags, and Harvard Business Reviews since I worked as an editorial consultant to high-tech and internet folks.
      • We are knee-deep in financial trouble and have no idea how we are going to get out of it.

Definition of knee-deep in US English:

knee-deep

adjective & adverbˈˌnē ˈˌdēpˈˌni ˈˌdip
  • 1So deep as to reach the knees.

    齐膝深的,没膝的

    the water was knee-deep on Main Street
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Finally, with knee-deep water in the cabin 200 miles from Bermuda, he issued a Mayday call.
    • Eventually he wandered down to the river, where he found Jim standing knee-deep in the water.
    • With countless roots and fallen logs hidden under the brown, knee-deep water, each step is a calculated risk.
    • Another Campbell Street resident said his garage was knee-deep in water and his family was waiting for the fire brigade to pump water out of the garden, which was entirely submerged.
    • When we left our home the water was only knee-deep.
    • He and his family were awoken at about midnight to find themselves knee-deep in water after the storm drains overflowed.
    • She was standing in the restaurant when the second wave burst in, leaving her knee-deep in swirling, sandy water - but uninjured.
    • She's still homeless - three months after she was left knee-deep in water by a freak flood at her terraced house.
    • Ethan was standing in knee-deep water, looking back the way they'd come.
    • Forty minutes of heavy rains turned Pattaya into a water world on Monday, with floodwaters knee-deep in places and cars breaking down in the waterlogged roads, causing traffic chaos.
    • Teachers managed to save children's work at St Nicholas Primary School, but the building was knee-deep in water and remained closed last night.
    • The huge yard, on the outskirts of Lahore, was knee-deep in mud.
    • Eistaucher took a step towards me and stumbled; abruptly he was knee-deep in water.
    • Climbing out of the glen was desperately hard work - knee-deep snow was the norm and occasionally I'd sink into drifts up to my thighs.
    • A burst water main caused chaos in a busy York shopping street today, flooding a supermarket and leaving a café knee-deep in water.
    • Living in knee-deep coastal waters, this small creature buries itself in the sand during the day and comes out to hunt after dark.
    • As the water on the road was knee-deep, engines of several light vehicles conked out and commuters were stranded, blocking the movement of heavy vehicles.
    • The snow covering the mountain pass is knee-deep and hard going.
    • Onlookers said the water was only knee-deep in the part of the lagoon where he fell in.
    • Nichola Richards was forced to shut the premises on Friday and Saturday, due to the store being knee-deep in water.
    Synonyms
    full of, crowded with, overrun by, overflowing with, swarming with, teeming with, alive with, crawling with, hopping with, bristling with, thronged with, packed with, rife with, well supplied with, awash with, abounding in, abundant in, knee-deep in, rolling in
    1. 1.1 Immersed up to the knees.
      (水深等)及膝的,齐膝的
      we were knee-deep in snow
    2. 1.2 Having more than one needs or wants of something.
      过多的
      we shall soon be knee-deep in conflicting legal views

      我们将很快就会有过多的在法律上相互抵触的观点。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He has spent much of his career knee-deep in immigration data, figuring out ways to measure the population, crunching the numbers and analyzing their policy implications.
      • In early 2000, I was knee-deep in business books, white papers, technology mags, and Harvard Business Reviews since I worked as an editorial consultant to high-tech and internet folks.
      • We are knee-deep in financial trouble and have no idea how we are going to get out of it.
adverbˈˌnē ˈˌdēpˈˌni ˈˌdip
  • So as to be immersed up to the knees.

    (水深等)及膝的,齐膝的

    I plodded knee-deep through the mud
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