Gulf

(noun.) an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); 'he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends'; 'there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy'.

(noun.) a deep wide chasm.

(noun.) an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay.

丹整理

• They had no sense of the other possibility, the gulf of the republican extremists, that yawned at their feet. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• She falls from the lowermost stair, and is swallowed up in the gulf. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The Gulf Stream illustrates the transference of heat by convection. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• On the 6th Sherman arrived at Grand Gulf and crossed his command that night and the next day. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The fleet followed him by sea, and rejoined him at the entrance to the Persian Gulf. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Accordingly the troops were set in motion for Hard Times, twenty-two miles farther down the river and nearly opposite Grand Gulf. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She felt as if a great gulf lay between her caste and his, and that to cross it or meet him half-way would be to degrade herself. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The enemy had taken a strong natural position with most of the Grand Gulf garrison, numbering about seven or eight thousand men, under General Bowen. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Grand Gulf was accordingly given up as a base and the authorities at Washington were notified. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• From the Gulf of Finland to the Eastern Ocean, Russia now assumes the form of a powerful and civilized empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was evident that the enemy was covering a retreat from Grand Gulf to Vicksburg. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This more than doubled the distance from Grand Gulf to the high land back of Bruinsburg. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• To resume: Canby is ordered to operate to the interior from the Gulf. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• At moments she was a Calvinist, and, sinking into the gulf of religious despair, she saw darkening over her the doom of reprobation. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• They _are_ shaped like sharks, Robert Jordan thought, the wide-finned, sharp-nosed sharks of the Gulf Stream. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But I beneath a rougher sea, And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

整理:胡安妮塔