"pile of debris at the base of a cliff," 1781, back-formation from screes (plural) "pebbles, small stones," from Old Norse skriða "landslide," from skriða "to creep, crawl;" of a ship, "to sail, glide," also "to slide" (on snow-shoes), from Proto-Germanic *skrithanan (cognates: Old English scriþan "to go, glide," Old Saxon skridan, Dutch schrijden, Old High German scritan, German schreiten "to stride").
实用例句
1. Occasionally scree fell in a shower of dust and noise.
偶尔会有碎石滚下，扬起大团尘土，噼啪作响。来自柯林斯例句
2. He scrambled sideways down the scree slope.
他沿着碎石坡的一侧爬了下来。来自柯林斯例句
3. Scree and grit was under my feet, and made some sounds.
卵石和砂砾在我脚下咯咯作响.来自互联网
4. A farmer comes turn up the soil, scree is thrown a driveway.
一个农民来翻地, 小石子被扔回马路.来自互联网
5. Black ice: Old ice that was exposed to extremely cold temperatures, scree, and snowfall.
