fathom是什么意思

双语用例

• An attempt is being made to salvage the helicopter, which is lying in 26 fathoms.

• He could not have meant two fathoms of chain.

• In the first half of 1938 she sent us over 20,000 piled cubic fathoms.

• The average depth in the harbour is about eight fathoms, but the depth in the channel leading to it is slightly less.

• We can catch at 600 or 700 fathoms.

• I am within 300 yards of a pit which is 200 fathoms deep.

• The depth at which it can be used is, however, limited to 35 fathoms.

• The figures for 1947, 1948 and 1949 were about 644,000, 544,000 and 559,000 piled cubic fathoms respectively.