| 单词 | knee-deep |
| 释义 | knee-deep (once / 5688 pages) adjadv WORD FAMILY knee-deep USAGE EXAMPLESWell, the election is over; now we’re knee-deep in postmortems. The Guardian(Nov 20, 2016) “I’ve had to wade home knee-deep from a block away; I didn’t want to bring my car into the saltwater.” New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) Outwardly, there was nothing salty about Mr. Kleeman, a tall, skinny mathematician, who worked for a climate forecasting start-up and spent workdays knee-deep in algorithms. New York Times(Nov 11, 2016) 1adj coming only to the ankle or knee Syn ankle-deep shallow lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center 2adv up to the knees we were standing knee-deep in the water Syn knee-high |
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