Its sheer rock sides sweep up from a broad base until they cut off abruptly at the flat summit.

它陡峭的岩石边从一个宽阔的基地上拔地而起，直到在平坦的山顶下突然被切断。

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He had given up attending lectures out of sheer boredom.

他已经不再去听讲座了，纯粹出于厌倦。

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Getting up at four o'clock every morning is sheer purgatory.

每天早上四点起床简直是活受罪。

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"The sheer pent-up demand ... is about to take hold, " President Charles Evans of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago was quoted as saying in a speech Tuesday.

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He looked like he was keeping his head up by sheer force of will, and had no energy left for shaving or other trivialities.

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But it's the little white plastic dongle that's the star of this show, through the power of sheer ubiquity, popping up in coffee shops and taxicabs everywhere.

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