chasm

柯林斯詞典

1. N-COUNT A chasm is a very deep crack in rock, earth, or ice. (巖石、地面或冰上的) 大裂口
...a yawning fourteen-foot-deep chasm which inexplicably had opened up in the riverbed. …河床上莫名其妙地開了一個14英尺深的敞開的大裂口。
2. N-COUNT If you say that there is a chasm between two things or between two groups of people, you mean that there is a very large difference between them. 鴻溝; 巨大分歧
...the chasm that divides the worlds of university and industry. …隔開大學(xué)與產(chǎn)業(yè)之間的的鴻溝。