Gap

(noun.) a narrow opening; 'he opened the window a crack'.

(noun.) a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures; 'gap between income and outgo'; 'the spread between lending and borrowing costs'.

(noun.) a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations.

(verb.) make an opening or gap in.

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• They were merry and social, but they each knew that a gap, never to be filled, had been made in their circle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Substances which, like an air gap, interfere with the flow of electricity are called non-conductors, or, more commonly, insulators. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Get thee down, Robert Jordan whispered to Agustín, and he turned his head and flicked his hand _Down, Down_, to Anselmo who was coming through the gap with a pine tree, carrying it over his shoulder like a Christmas tree. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• I have not seen a man who, if he turns his talents that way, was more calculated to fill the gap left by the illustrious Moriarty. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• With the growth of civilization, the gap between the original capacities of the immature and the standards and customs of the elders increases. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• If you hear firing bring them up to the woods behind the gap. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• At that moment, the carriage appeared in the distance, through the gap, on its way to the lodge-gate. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• McPherson was therefore sent around by the right, to come out by the way of Snake Creek Gap into the rear of the enemy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• This organization of murder as a sport and show serves to measure the great gap in moral standards between the Roman community and our own. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Then hunger closed the gap between them, and the son of an English lord and an English lady nursed at the breast of Kala, the great ape. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• He left a sad gap behind him, when he left my lady's house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• His animals, too, had been starved, and their carcasses lined the road from Cumberland Gap, and far back towards Lexington, Ky. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• After advancing a few hundred yards, Ezra Jennings stopped at a gap in the rough stone wall which shut off the moor from the road, at this part of it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• The sick man seemed to fall into a gap of death, at her contradiction. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Down below the gaps in the ties the river ran muddy and fast. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Where are the doubts that should have honored these investigations, the frank statement of all the gaps in knowledge, and the obscurities in morals? 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The message necessarily left large gaps for conjecture; but all that he had recently heard and seen made these but too easy to fill in. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• There were great gaps in his consciousness. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• They do not perceive the want of connexion in their own writings, or the gaps in their systems which are visible enough to those who come after them. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• There were gaps of silence in the talk, as the dinner got on, that made me feel personally uncomfortable. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• For light upon these extraordinary gaps in his teaching, each reader must go to his own religious guides. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Sheridan pursued him with great energy through Harrisonburg, Staunton, and the gaps of the Blue Ridge. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The gaps remain, and there are not unpopular lodgings among the rubbish. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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