| 单词 | delve |
| 释义 | delve (once / 3380 pages) v The verb delve means to dig into, loosen, or investigate. She delved into her family's history and discovered an inventor, a checkers champion, and a circus equestrian in her ancestry. Delve has a literal meaning of to dig into the earth ("to delve the soil," as in preparing a garden, for example), but this sense is rare now. The verb is most often used in the more figurative sense — like to delve into a problem or into someone's personal life. WORD FAMILYdelve: delved, delves, delving USAGE EXAMPLESAnd when you delve more deeply, the tale is a surprising one. BBC(Dec 25, 2016) “It meant that you were delving into a different cultural realm.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 24, 2016) My parents in their eager search delved through the brochures, the interviews and assessments, the continuous churning of paperwork. The Guardian(Dec 24, 2016) v turn up, loosen, or remove earth Syn|Hypo|Hyper cut into, dig, turn over furrow, groove, rut hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove root, rootle, routdig with the snout spadedig (up) with a spade shoveldig with or as if with a shovel troweluse a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work burrow, tunnelmove through by or as by digging ridgespade into alternate ridges and troughs remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
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