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plunge

/plʌnd͡ʒ/ 名词 C1

中文: 跳水、暴跌、猛冲

  1. The act of plunging or submerging.
  2. A dive, leap, rush, or pitch into (into water). · to take the water with a plunge· A plunge into the sea
  3. A swimming pool. (dated)
  4. The act of pitching or throwing oneself headlong or violently forward, like an unruly horse. (figuratively)
  5. Heavy and reckless betting in horse racing; hazardous speculation. (slang)

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Roll and plunge!
《The Jungle Book》,第54页 · B2
“I’ll plunge into the matter without further preamble.
《The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes》,第61页 · B2
The magistrate laid emphasis on these words, as if he wished to apply them to the owner himself, while his eyes seemed to plunge into the heart of one who, interceding for another, had himself need of indulgence.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第59页 · C1
To undermine the ground for fifty feet—to devote three years to a labor which, if successful, would conduct you to a precipice overhanging the sea—to plunge into the waves from the height of fifty, sixty, perhaps a hundred feet, at the risk of being dashed to pieces against the rocks, should you have been fortunate enough to have escaped the fire of the sentinels; and even, supposing all these perils past, then to have to swim for your life a distance of at least three miles ere you could reach the shore—were difficulties so startling and formidable that Dantès had never even dreamed of such a scheme, resigning himself rather to death.
《The Count of Monte Cristo》,第147页 · C1

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