We also believe that the visible chasm in the adyton may have been a gaping fissure that extended into the layer of clay above the faulted bedrock.

我们也相信，在阿底顿里看见的裂沟，可能是基岩的裂口延伸到上方的黏土层。

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When the terrifying noise stopped, and the dust cleared and Gyges had picked himself up, he found that a gaping chasm had open before him.

当响声停下，灰尘散落，古阿斯从地上站起，看到面前居然打开了一个多孔的大裂缝。

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But these elections exposed a gaping chasm between the pro-mayor rhetoric, and the reality of an electorate deeply suspicious of the idea of yet more elected politicians.

BBC: Vote 2012: The end of the elected mayor dream?