rift
rift 英 [rɪft] 美 [rɪft]
n. 裂缝；分歧
名词复数:rifts
- Rift sounds like rip, and it's helpful to think of it that way. When there is a rift in a political party over a particular policy, it is like a rip or tear in the fabric of the group.
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- n. 裂缝；分歧
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1. The rift within the party deepened.
党内的分歧加深了。
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2. Efforts to heal the rift between the two countries have failed.
弥合两国间分歧的各种努力都已失败。
- rift (n.) early 14c., "a split, act of splitting," from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish and Norwegian rift "a cleft," Old Icelandic ript (pronounced "rift") "breach;" related to Old Norse ripa "to break a contract" (see riven). Figurative use from 1620s. Geological sense from 1921. As a verb, c. 1300.
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