参考词典中excavate的常规释义:
基本释义
- vt.
vi. 挖,挖开,凿通
词形变化
- 时 态:ex·ca·vat·ed, ex·ca·vat·ing, ex·ca·vates
参考例句
- The workmen excavated dirt and rocks with a steam shovel.
工人以蒸汽铲掘土和石头。 - A tool or machine used for digging or excavating.
用于挖掘或采掘的工具或机器. - They excavated a lot of valuable ancient relics.
他们挖掘出许多珍贵的古物。 - The archaeologists excavated a buried city.
考古学家发掘出一个埋在地下的城市。 - I let him excavate around the mine..
我准许他在金矿周围挖掘..
- The workmen excavated dirt and rocks with a steam shovel.
英英解释
4个动词解释
- lay bare through digging
[同] excavate, unearth
[例]- Schliemann excavated Troy
- find by digging in the ground
[同] dig up, excavate, turn up
[例]- I dug up an old box in the garden
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- form by hollowing
[例]- Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team
- excavate a cavity
- remove the inner part or the core of
[同] dig, excavate, hollow
[例]- the mining company wants to excavate the hillside
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