Excavation
[ekskə'veɪʃ(ə)n] or [,ɛkskə'veʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of digging; 'there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton'.
(noun.) a hole in the ground made by excavating.
艾德琳校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting, scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.
(n.) A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping.
(n.) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from a covered cutting or tunnel.
(n.) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.
校對:塔玛拉
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Excavating.[2]. Cutting, cavity, hollow.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The one greatest undertaking of the whole excavation was the Gaillard Cut. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The cut is nine miles long, 300 feet wide, 272 feet greatest depth and required the excavation of 100,000,000 cubic yards of material. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- After a ring of iron lining has been erected within the tail of the shield, excavation is carried out ahead. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- They met in the little ditch encircling the tumulus--the original excavation from which it had been thrown up by the ancient British people. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The first scraps of this skull were found in an excavation for road gravel in Sussex. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Coming up again to the marsh level out of this excavation,--for the rude path lay through it,--I saw a light in the old sluice-house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The amphitheatre, like all I had ever seen upon Barsoom, was built in a large excavation. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- When sufficient excavation has been taken out, the jacks are again extended, thus pushing the shield ahead, and another ring of iron is erected as before. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Tarzan dropped to the ground and commenced to examine the earth about the excavation. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Nor do we find such excavations beside the barrows. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A private expedition to make excavations among the ruined cities of Central America is, it seems, about to sail from Liverpool. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Mo dern excavations have demonstrated that the sides or the corners of the temples and palaces of Assyria and Babylonia were directed to the four cardinal points of the compass. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- For surface excavations in solid earth the Lidgerwood Cableway is an important and labor saving device. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
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