Excavate
['ekskəveɪt] or ['ɛkskə'vet]
解释:
(verb.) remove the inner part or the core of; 'the mining company wants to excavate the hillside'.
(verb.) form by hollowing; 'Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team'; 'excavate a cavity'.
(verb.) find by digging in the ground; 'I dug up an old box in the garden'.
(verb.) recover through digging; 'Schliemann excavated Troy'; 'excavate gold'.
克林顿编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To hollow out; to form cavity or hole in; to make hollow by cutting, scooping, or digging; as, to excavate a ball; to excavate the earth.
(v. t.) To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.
(v. t.) To dig out and remove, as earth.
编辑:卢克
同义词及近义词：
v. a. Hollow, hollow out, scoop out, dig out, cut out.
整理:彼得
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Dig, hollow, trench, discover, deserter
ANT:Bury, fill_level, conceal, inter, inhume
艾弗里校对
解释:
v.t. to hollow or scoop out: to dig out.—ns. Excavā′tion act of excavating: a hollow or cavity made by excavating; Ex′cavator one who excavates: a machine used for excavating.
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例句:
- When a large quantity of water is desired, strong machines drill into the ground and excavate an opening into which a wide pipe can be lowered. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- On May 4, 1904, when the United States took charge, it was estimated that there was left to excavate 150,000,000 cubic yards. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- An English Company is going to excavate Ephesus--and then! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In operation it is lowered with open jaws, and by its own weight digs into the ground that is to be excavated. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Yuan Chwang gives an interesting account of a great Buddhist university at Nalanda, where ruins have quite recently been discovered and excavated. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Excavated earth is removed in a similar manner. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- This ore could be excavated very cheaply by means of improved mining facilities, and transported at low cost to lake ports. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The pipe is lowered into contact with the bottom to be excavated and the material is pumped into hopper barges or into a hopper-well in the dredge itself. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- This figure would also rest on the basis of using in the mixture the gravel excavated on the site. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The material excavated consisted largely of rock and formed one of the hugest engineering problems in the world’s history. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- There have been about 1,000 patents granted for bridges, about 2,500 for excavating apparatus, and about 1,500 for hydraulic engineering. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- This dredge is the only one found satisfactory in excavating rock. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Great gangs of men were employed in excavating canals, in making railway cuttings and embankments, and the like. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It rows, it pumps, it excavates, it carries, it draws, it lifts, it hammers, it spins, it weaves, it prints. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
编辑:迈尔斯