The yellow-throated vireo partakes of all the family characteristics, but, in addition to these, it eclipses all its relatives in the brilliancy of its coloring and in the art of nest-building, which it has brought to a state of hopeless perfection. No envious bird need try to excel the exquisite finish of its workmanship. Happily, it has wit enough to build its pensile nest high above the reach of small boys, usually suspending it from a branch overhanging running water that threatens too precipitous a bath to tempt the young climbers.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
They kept on their journey. Montana is a mountainous State, and they were now in the hilly regions. They kept on for perhaps half an hour, gradually getting upon higher ground, until they reached a precipitous hill composed largely of rock.英文原著 · 《Cast Upon the Breakers》
I had no means of guessing at what hour I was wakened, only the moon was down and the fire was low. My feet were now loosed, and I was carried through the ruins and down the cliff-side by a precipitous path to where I found a fisher's boat in a haven of the rocks. This I was had on board of, and we began to put forth from the shore in a fine starlight英文原著 · 《Catriona》
Freewill. FRIENDLY group recently elevated. Friendly archipelago. FRINGING-REEFS, absent where coast precipitous. Breached in front of streams. Described by MM. Quoy and Gaimard. Not closely attached to shelving coasts.英文原著 · 《Coral Reefs》
Higher and higher we climbed, and grander and grander towered the frowning moon-bathed mountains round us, and chillier and chillier grew the air. For most of the way we crawled along, the horses tugging us from side to side of the steep road; but, wherever our coachman could vary the monotony of the pace by a stretch-gallop-- as, for instance, down the precipitous descents that occasionally followed upon some extra long and toilsome ascent--he thoughtfully did so. At such times the drive became really quite exciting, and all our weariness was forgotten.英文原著 · 《Diary of a Pilgrimage》
In these lower levels there was more smoke, that smeared out and thickened the mist. Suddenly a breath of air parted the fog as if it were a torn curtain. Like a shot Bobby went down the crag, leaping from rock to rock, scrambling under thorns and hazel shrubs, dropping over precipitous ledges, until he looked down a sheer fall on which not even a knot of grass could find a foothold. He took the leap instantly, and his thick fleece saved him from broken bones; but when he tried to get up again his body was racked with pain and his hind legs refused to serve him.英文原著 · 《Greyfriars Bobby》
Big reforms which could lead to sweeping change in the embattled region, or a precipitous economic collapse.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
You know what, I got an essay to write, so if this isn't about the precipitous fall of the French ruling class-- But then I saw, the kid had a tell.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》