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单词 underground
释义
underground1 adjectiveunderground2 adverbunderground3 noun
undergroundun‧der‧ground1 /ˈʌndəɡraʊnd $ -ər-/ ●●○ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • underground nuclear testing
  • an underground newspaper
  • The office's parking garage is underground.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A private consortium has financial backing for a scheme to build an entire underground toll-road system.
  • Also, underground conditions were significantly different from what was anticipated.
  • Amplification of this energy promotes fertilization of the surrounding area via underground water-courses.
  • But instead he returned to Hue as an organizer for an underground movement.
  • If it is chosen, the underground site could start receiving canisters of waste in 2010, Olds said.
  • Slowly an underground resistance movement grew, catering for discriminating customers.
  • The gas, which seeps out of the earth from underground uranium deposits, can collect in dangerous concentrations in some houses.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
known about by only a few people, who have agreed not to tell anyone else: · a secret meeting place· The details of the proposal must remain secret.
used about information, especially in business or government, that is secret and not intended to be shown or told to other people: · a highly confidential report· Employees’ personal details are treated as strictly confidential.
used about information that the government has ordered to be kept secret from most people: · He was accused of passing on classified information to the Russians in the 1950s.
used about information that is kept secret because there would be problems if the wrong people knew it: · A teenager managed to hack into sensitive US Air Force files.
[only before noun] used about things that are done secretly, especially by a government or official organization: · a CIA covert operation
[usually before noun] used about things that are done secretly by the police in order to catch criminals or find out information: · Detectives arrested the suspect after a five-day undercover operation.
an underground organization or newspaper is one that operates or is produced secretly and opposes the government: · Her father was a member of the underground resistance movement in France during World War II.
secret and often illegal or immoral: · clandestine meetings· his involvement in a clandestine operation to sell arms to Iran· a clandestine love affair
informal used about information or activities that are kept officially secret: · He was put in charge of some hush-hush military project.· I’ve no idea what he does – it’s all very hush-hush.
Longman Language Activatorsecret organizations and people who do secret work
: secret police/agent/society etc · She was kept under surveillance by the secret police for over three years.· The film tells the story of a Swiss secret agent who masquerades as a grocer in order to uncover a drugs ring.· a senior member of the secret service
: underground organization/newspaper/movement etc one that is secret and opposes the government, especially when it is too dangerous to do this publicly: · Slowly, the underground resistance movement grew.· Nearly 2,000 defeated fighters joined the underground Communist forces concealed in the Mekong delta.· He was suspended from his job for writing an editorial in an underground paper.go underground/be forced underground (=become an underground organization): · In 1795, the United Irish Society went underground as a revolutionary movement.
: clandestine organization/force/operation etc one that is secret, and usually illegal: · The doctor was arrested after she was named as a member of a clandestine socialist movement.· His clandestine meetings with PLO officials had been secretly recorded.
: undercover agent/police officer/investigator etc one who works secretly for the police or government in order to catch criminals: · He was arrested after trying to sell guns to an undercover FBI agent.· People dived aside as undercover cops ambushed a planned post office raid.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· The electricity will be transmitted by undersea cables.
· The air in these underground passages is cold and damp.
(=one that runs under London)· The condition of many tube trains is a disgrace.
· The prisoners escaped through an underground tunnel.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
· Rivers have been restored to healthy levels and, more importantly, this rain is at last reaching the water-permeable rocks deep underground.· Nervous trembles ached in her legs and the floor was vibrating fractionally with the movement of some train deep underground.· After 50 years the waste will probably be buried deep underground.
NOUN
· Almost a third of the water feeding Los Angeles is now pumped from underground aquifers.
· Now it plans to use its underground cable network to offer customers a telephone service as well.
· I don't think he meant to yell, it was just that his voice echoed a lot in the underground car park.· The nearby Brancusi workshop will be entirely rebuilt and an underground car park constructed under the piazza to accommodate tourist coaches.· There is a large underground car park opposite the hotel.
· Squeeze along on your hands and knees, then wriggle flat on your stomach, and you may reach an underground cavern.· Two hundred code writers, broken down into teams, entered the project as if it were some underground cavern.· They would require extensive tunnelling through limestone under the Judean Hills where there was a danger of underground caverns or water.· Evidence showed that almost twice as much gas had been loaded into the underground cavern, resulting in the blast.· These are great vaulted underground caverns, the roof supported by columns which display a wide variety of capital design.
· Fenn stood and, hands on hips, scanned the underground chamber once more.· Some accounts say the gallae stored them in underground chambers to be used in mystery rites.· He took her into an underground chamber which seemed to be a kind of store room.
· Individual workers similarly disappear into the underground economy where social charges and taxes are not paid.· They were significantly overrepresented in the underground economy, where they were prey to exploitation.
· They said little after that and Sorge was soon being escorted, with Nowak, down to the underground garage.· However, no one got out and the driver pulled into an underground garage and away from the people.· They drove directly into the underground garage off Hermann Goering Strasse.· He parked the car in an underground garage near the hotel.
· They contained fresh and astonishing details of underground movements and midnight rendezvous.· That is why Le Monde took the unusual step of acting as a mouthpiece for the representatives of underground movements.· But instead he returned to Hue as an organizer for an underground movement.· Although Patriots capture headlines and boast of a massive underground movement, they are so amorphous that counting them is guesswork.
· An underground network of activists has begun helping the new arrivals to elude police.· It presents the underground network as a geometric grid.· Training for ministry was only possible through an underground network of theological seminars with few Bibles, or other books.· There must be a vast underground network of spies.
· An exciting feature here is an underground passage leading to a cave deep beneath the ruins.· Will was impressed by the architecture of the Capitol, especially the underground passages.· The air in these underground passages was cold, chill as the water in a deep well.· Twelve people died after a bomb ripped through a busy underground passage at Moscow's Pushkin Square during the rush-hour last week.· Some of these riverbank cave entrances are submerged when the river is in spate making their underground passages subject to sudden flooding.· We found two underground passages, one to the sea and one to the landward side.· When at last they found the Canons among the underground passages, the two old men had begun to recover themselves a little.· It was one of those you entered by means of a short underground passage.
· The Glasgow underground railway system like the London underground counterpart has some very strange and totally unexplained events.· In its day it built the world's first by-pass and dug the world's first underground railway.· The London Underground map is really a diagram of underground railway lines.· At least 150 miles of new rapid transit and underground railways are envisaged in the next 20 to 30 years.
· She was handed a map and told to make her own way to the nearest underground station.· Now I suppose I shall have to tramp back to Moorgate underground station, before I can find a cab.· In 1971 the Pelham Street premises were threatened with demolition as London Transport wanted to re-develop the underground station.· It was swallowed up by London Transport, who owned the site, and became part of South Kensington underground station.· Closest underground stations, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square.· It will enable the promoters greatly to improve capacity and the safety of passenger flows at the London underground station.· Transport amenities are poor, with the nearest London underground station a twenty-minute bus ride away.
· The water is some 20 feet down: a pool fed by a diverted underground stream.· And I read that many cathedrals were built on ancient pagan sites, which in turn were built over underground streams.· The Forest of Dean is riddled with underground streams and springs.· Is the Black Virgin a symbol of the hidden Church and of the underground stream?· Erosion was caused by solution of the rocks and by the mud and pebbles moving in the underground stream.· We have seen how many of the Neolithic monuments, such as Silbury Hill, were built over underground streams.· Bless the underground stream that gave the town its water, and pray that it flows for ever and ever.
· They move along the underground systems to either emerge in due course or stay tight to rabbits they have encountered.· Now the whole complex underground system is interlocked and related, and meticulously mapped.
· Buses and underground trains were so expensive that it was no longer accurate to regard them as public transport.· Recent power surges disrupted underground train service between the terminal and concourses.· They were joined by underground train drivers in the capital.· Adtranz manufactures electric and diesel locomotives, high-speed trains, streetcars and underground trains, and signal and traffic-control systems.· We had seen the little underground train which congressmen rode and we had visited one of our senators in his office.· She was calling me from central London, having travelled there with her young son on the underground train.· There they transferred to the Métro, taking the rubber-wheeled underground train on the Neuilly line to the west of the city.· Yet Laura failed to conquer fully her fear of water or enclosed places and was never able to use underground trains.
· There's an underground tunnel that goes from here to an empty tomb in the churchyard.· It feels like an underground tunnel down there, the walls thick and heavy, the air damp and cool.· Tabitha found herself being diverted down a long underground tunnel to the civil concourse.· Gophers, which travel via underground tunnels, make a fan-shaped mound of dirt.· Earlier in the day passengers were forced to walk through an underground tunnel after a train partially derailed.· C., has an underground tunnel running from the government offices to the Capitol.
· Equally threatening are the dozens of federally subsidized cattle ranches that have depleted underground water sources used by antelope and bighorn sheep.· The chemical has filtered into underground water supplies.· The worrying fact is that serious over-use is drying up some of our rivers and natural underground water levels.· Traditional rural dowsers used wooden sticks to locate underground water.· Agriculture in the south will suffer as underground water is exhausted and already sparse summer rain disappears.· The dumps were generating explosive gases and leaching noxious chemicals that polluted underground water sources.· A layer of plastic provides the only protection from seepage into the soil and underground water.· A workman has died and another was seriously injured after an underground water pipe burst.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnoungroundundergroundgroundinggroundsadjectivegoundlessunderground ≠ overgroundgroundedverbgroundadverbunderground
1below the surface of the earth:  an underground passage The car park is underground.2[only before noun] an underground group, organization etc is secret and illegal:  an underground terrorist organization► see thesaurus at secret3[only before noun] underground literature, newspapers etc are read by a small number of people, and would seem slightly strange or shocking to most people:  the underground press
underground1 adjectiveunderground2 adverbunderground3 noun
undergroundun‧der‧ground2 /ˌʌndəˈɡraʊnd $ -ər-/ adverb Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • The insect spends most of its life underground, eating roots and stems.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Dining: Restaurants are open in the visitor center and underground, near the Big Room.
  • Of this amount, about 30 percent can be mined at the surface; the balance is underground.
  • Over the next few days, though, the signs of what was happening underground became more severe.
  • The industry is now investigating sites in which to dump nuclear waste underground.
  • There is now a through route underground between Gaping Gill and Ingleborough Cave but only for brave men.
  • Three of the stations are underground, and the last two at surface level.
  • When he was making an underground survey of the New Almaden mine he stayed underground for twenty hours at a stretch.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorunder the ground or under water
· It is one of the largest mountain ranges under the Pacific Ocean.· Several of the stolen items were found buried under Mackie's house.· When the project is finished, most of Boston's major roads will run under the city.
under - used in formal writing or in literature: · Far beneath the waters of the North Atlantic lies the wreck of the great liner, the Titanic.· Petroleum occurs in natural deposits beneath the surface of the earth.
under the ground: · The men work underground for 12 hours a day.· The explosives will be stored below ground in concrete bunkers.10 metres underground/two miles underground etc: · The nuclear waste is buried a half-mile underground.
below the ground: · A subterranean stream is believed to flow underneath the town.· a subterranean explosion· Electronic sensors have located a huge subterranean cavern in the Sierre Madre mountain range.
under the water: · I don't like opening my eyes underwater.· a camera specially designed for use under water· On land the seal is a clumsy creature, but underwater it moves with grace and agility.
just under the surface of the water: · The boat hit a submerged rock.· Sometimes at low tide you can just see the submerged wreck of a large ship.partially/partly submerged: · The flight recorder was found smashed and partially submerged in a creek nearby.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 nuclear waste buried deep underground
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· The electricity will be transmitted by undersea cables.
· The air in these underground passages is cold and damp.
(=one that runs under London)· The condition of many tube trains is a disgrace.
· The prisoners escaped through an underground tunnel.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
· Fresh air bases were set up in Bank Mine and a team of brave and dedicated doctors went underground to assist.· Instead of changing its policies, however, the government went underground.· But some of the activity has gone underground.· Like the Sleepers of Ephesus, ideas go underground for a few centuries to re-emerge when times are more propitious.· A few days later, Valenzuela went underground.· If company policies are too stringent or punitive, couples simply go underground.· Mina got the tip-off just in time and they became U-boats, went underground.· It is as if, in the face of attack, cockfighting already has gone underground.
· Red tape and bureaucracy are the most frequently given reasons for people working underground.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Denkins went underground to escape police.
  • A few days later, Valenzuela went underground.
  • But some of the activity has gone underground.
  • Delvalle went underground but continued to be recognized by the United States.
  • Fresh air bases were set up in Bank Mine and a team of brave and dedicated doctors went underground to assist.
  • If company policies are too stringent or punitive, couples simply go underground.
  • Instead of changing its policies, however, the government went underground.
  • Like the Sleepers of Ephesus, ideas go underground for a few centuries to re-emerge when times are more propitious.
  • The redevelopment proposals put forward for the site at first envisaged that all the shopping should go underground.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnoungroundundergroundgroundinggroundsadjectivegoundlessunderground ≠ overgroundgroundedverbgroundadverbunderground
1under the earth’s surface:  This animal spends most of its life underground. nuclear waste buried deep underground2go underground to start doing something secretly, or hide in a secret place:  The ANC was forced to go underground when its leaders were arrested.
underground1 adjectiveunderground2 adverbunderground3 noun
undergroundun‧der‧ground3 /ˈʌndəɡraʊnd $ -ər-/ noun Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A desire to remind Rome of its arrogance remained latent in the Celtic underground.
  • But out of necessity, the underground continued to flourish.
  • But the scale of recruitment to the revolutionary underground suggests that it can not be explained in terms of individual maladjustment.
  • His father, Wei Zilin, worked in the Communist underground in the 1930s.
  • I found that I was a natural boss of a prison underground.
  • No way do the charts tell the whole story - the new underground is of much more interest and relevance.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
· The electricity will be transmitted by undersea cables.
· The air in these underground passages is cold and damp.
(=one that runs under London)· The condition of many tube trains is a disgrace.
· The prisoners escaped through an underground tunnel.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Among snatches of conversation, both of us remember his referring to the underground as being rather like hell.
  • Did Hollywood and the underground film-makers, in particular, hold any responsibility for such behaviour?
  • If it is chosen, the underground site could start receiving canisters of waste in 2010, Olds said.
  • In 1971 the Pelham Street premises were threatened with demolition as London Transport wanted to re-develop the underground station.
  • Not that the early issues had learnt anything from the underground.
  • The environmental coalition also has proposed some type of barrier to prevent further expansion of the underground plume.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnoungroundundergroundgroundinggroundsadjectivegoundlessunderground ≠ overgroundgroundedverbgroundadverbunderground
 the Underground a)British English a railway system under the ground SYN subway American English b)an illegal group working in secret against the rulers of a country
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