| 单词 | dig |
| 释义 | dig I. intransitive verb 1. < dig for buried treasure > < digging in the garden > 2. < digging away at his geometry lessons > 3. a. < dig into the facts of a case > < digging into the history of mankind > b. < if we dig down through the strata of English historical writing — B.R.Redman > 4. slang < this is the inn where I dig — John Galsworthy > 5. of a tool 6. < the runner on first base digs for second with the first pitch > transitive verb 1. < dig a field for planting > 2. a. < dig potatoes > b. < dig up facts > 3. < dig a trench > < dig a foundation > 4. < dug his fingers into the soft earth > 5. < he dug me in the ribs with his sharp little elbow > 6. slang a. < dig that fancy hat > b. < what I don't dig over there is the British money — Jimmy Durante > c. < a very corny gag, but people seem to dig it — Down Beat > Synonyms: < dig worms > < dig for gold > < dig a bone up > < dig into a cliff > delve implies more commonly the use of a spade or efforts comparable to the use of one and suggests strongly a laborious digging around in or in among something < lab scientists delve into the secrets of nature — Investor's Reader > < to delve into the mysteries of prehistoric man — E.J.Sawyer > < delve beneath these superficialities — William Petersen > < delve among the old records in the city archives — F.L.Pattee > spade may apply to the manual preparation of soil for planting, to turning over and loosening the ground < spade the garden early > < spade in the fertilizer > grub usually does not imply deep digging but rather suggests laborious dirty digging around in surface soil or dirt, or any dirty, groveling work resembling it < scorning to grub the soil, they live off the produce of their herds — Jean & Franc Shor > < a group of ragpickers haphazardly grubbing about among a pile of human refuse — Times Literary Supplement > < grubbing around Etruscan cemeteries — Robert Graves > < he grubs for the answers in the memory heap of five decades — Time > excavate implies making a hollow in, into, or through something, usually by spade, shovel or machine < the powerful stream … excavated a new channel — American Guide Series: Washington > < an expedition of the Witte Memorial Museum of San Antonio excavated caves, the contents of which revealed the culture of a sedentary people — American Guide Series: Texas > < excavate a cliff > exhume implies the removal of something buried < the ungrateful task of exhuming antiquities — Americas > < trees buried by the gray unweathered outwash gravels and exhumed through erosion of the valley train by the Rio Ameghino — R.L.Nichols & M.M.Miller > disinter implies the exhuming of something buried by human hands < the urns disinterred at Walsingham — A.T.Quiller-Couch > < bodies were disinterred from battlefields — American Guide Series: North Carolina > • - dig into II. 1. a. < gave the horse a good dig in the side > b. < why all the small ungracious digs and hedging of good report with evil suspicion — Philip Burnham > 2. 3. dialect England 4. 5. digs plural, Britain 6. < on their return from some fruitful dig in the Nile valley — David Garnett > 7. III. now dialect England IV. |
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