Tunnel
['tʌnl]
解释:
(noun.) a passageway through or under something, usually underground (especially one for trains or cars); 'the tunnel reduced congestion at that intersection'.
(verb.) force a way through.
录入:里基--From WordNet
解释:
(n. .) A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a funnel.
(n. .) The opening of a chimney for the passage of smoke; a flue; a funnel.
(n. .) An artificial passage or archway for conducting canals or railroads under elevated ground, for the formation of roads under rivers or canals, and the construction of sewers, drains, and the like.
(n. .) A level passage driven across the measures, or at right angles to veins which it is desired to reach; -- distinguished from the drift, or gangway, which is led along the vein when reached by the tunnel.
(v. t.) To form into a tunnel, or funnel, or to form like a tunnel; as, to tunnel fibrous plants into nests.
(v. t.) To catch in a tunnel net.
(v. t.) To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river.
比利编辑
同义词及近义词：
n. Funnel.
克里斯整理
解释:
n. an arched passage cut through a hill or under a river &c.: the long underground burrow of certain animals as the mole: any mine-level open at one end: (Spens.) a flue chimney.—v.t. to make a passage through: to hollow out:—pr.p. tunn′elling; pa.t. and pa.p. tunn′elled.—n. Tunn′el-net a net wide at the mouth and narrow at the other end.
欧文整理
娱乐性解释：
To dream of going through a tunnel is bad for those in business and in love. To see a train coming towards you while in a tunnel, foretells ill health and change in occupation. To pass through a tunnel in a car, denotes unsatisfactory business, and much unpleasant and expensive travel. To see a tunnel caving in, portends failure and malignant enemies. To look into one, denotes that you will soon be compelled to face a desperate issue.
奥古斯都手打
例句:
- We drove slowly in this matting-covered tunnel and came out onto a bare cleared space where the railway station had been. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The trees and vines stretch across these narrow roadways sometimes and so shut out the sun that you seem to be riding through a tunnel. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- As is quite generally known, air pressure and tunnel shields were used in all of the under-water work. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Are the lights at the tunnel and the western pass in order, Alexandros? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Some fell dead, many wounded, and the yells of the discomfited assailants vibrated under the vaulted roof of the tunnel, as they retired in disorder. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- This tunnel is large enough to permit the easy passage of a touring car. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In the meantime, he placed a strong guard at the gate of the tunnel and in the western pass, so as to prevent the island being taken by surprise. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- The method of construction used in the Hudson River tunnels has been designated the shield method. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- We had plenty of chilly tunnels wherein to check our perspiration, though. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- If a waterfall is convenient, air is compressed by the body of descending water, and used to ventilate tunnels, and deep shafts and mines, or drive the drills or other tools. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- If I remember rightly, we passed high above wagon roads or through tunnels under them, but never crossed them on their own level. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The Story of the Tunnels Under the Hudson River[58] 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The making of roads, railroads, canals and tunnels has called forth thousands of ingenious mechanisms for their accomplishment. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Beginning life as a stone mason, he rose by his own industry to be a master among architects and a prince among builders of iron bridges, aqueducts, canals, tunnels, harbours and docks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- As the rock drill made a revolution in blasting and tunnelling, so the Blake crusher revolutionised the art of road making. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
整理:桑娅