单词 | danger line |
释义 | > as lemmasdanger line danger line n. a line, real or imaginary, representing the division between safety and danger. ΚΠ 1890 Congress. Rec. 5 June 5654/2 I believe the good sense of our law-makers will still hold us inside the danger line of peril. 1892 Notes on Navigation H.M. Ships (ed. 3) 8 The five-fathom line on most Admiralty charts is to be considered as a caution or danger line. 1902 Monthly Weather Rev. (U.S.) 30 3/1 The December floods of the Tennessee..continued considerably above the danger lines for the first few days. 1953 L. P. Hartley Go-between xiv. 167 Again I was lucky with the Psalms; the Sunday before there had been forty-four verses; this Sunday there were forty-three, seven below the danger line. < as lemmas |
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