excavator

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Motor vehicles, Archaeologyexcavatorex‧ca‧va‧tor /ˈekskəveɪtə $ -ər/ noun [countable] 1 TTC British English a large machine that digs and moves earth and soil SYN steam shovel American English2 SXsomeone who digs to find things that have been buried under the ground for a long timeExamples from the Corpusexcavator• Many different excavators, when digging up the airport, have encountered this odor.• The early excavators of Knossos found the large Horns of Consecration lying precisely in front of this doorway.• The iron ore is easily extracted by quarrying with giant excavators.• As well as its own peat-cutting operations, the company is also encouraging local farmers to use mechanical excavators to exploit their own reserves.• In this case it is clear that the original excavators included only those coins which they deemed of sufficient importance for publication.• Now, with dynamite, the excavators were nibbling back each outcrop farther and farther away from the center.• The excavator also recovered a blue shawl of loosely spaced plain weave with red stripes.

单词	excavator
释义	excavator From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Motor vehicles, Archaeologyexcavatorex‧ca‧va‧tor /ˈekskəveɪtə $ -ər/ noun [countable] 1 TTC British English a large machine that digs and moves earth and soil SYN steam shovel American English2 SXsomeone who digs to find things that have been buried under the ground for a long timeExamples from the Corpusexcavator• Many different excavators, when digging up the airport, have encountered this odor.• The early excavators of Knossos found the large Horns of Consecration lying precisely in front of this doorway.• The iron ore is easily extracted by quarrying with giant excavators.• As well as its own peat-cutting operations, the company is also encouraging local farmers to use mechanical excavators to exploit their own reserves.• In this case it is clear that the original excavators included only those coins which they deemed of sufficient importance for publication.• Now, with dynamite, the excavators were nibbling back each outcrop farther and farther away from the center.• The excavator also recovered a blue shawl of loosely spaced plain weave with red stripes.
随便看	make a joke out of make a jump make a kick up a fuss make a kick up a fuss about make a killing make a left turn make a left/right turn make a living make a lot of noise about make a man (out) of somebody make a man of make a man out of make a mark etc make a meal (out) of something make a meal of make a meal out of make a mental note make a mess of make a mess of (doing) something make a mess of doing make a mockery of make a mockery of something incompetence incompetent incomplete