| 单词 | abseil |
| 释义 | abseil (once / 909178 pages) nv WORD FAMILY abseil USAGE EXAMPLESThis can involve clearing snakes, or testing the stability of rocks to abseil down. The Guardian(Feb 15, 2016) Declan Lawn learned how to abseil, break locks and drill through concrete in an effort to retrace their steps. BBC(Apr 25, 2015) Once every five years the clock-face is cleaned from the outside, by a team who abseil down it to do their maintenance work. BBC(Jan 29, 2015) 1n (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body Syn|Hyper rappel descent the act of changing your location in a downward direction 2v lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing Syn|Hyper rappel, rope down come down, descend, fall, go down move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way |
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