| 单词 | tunnel |
| 释义 | tunnel —tunneler; esp. Brit., tunneller, n. —tunnellike, adj. /tun"l/, n. , v. , tunneled, tunneling or (esp. Brit.) tunnelled, tunnelling. n. 1. an underground passage. 2. a passageway, as for trains or automobiles, through or under an obstruction, as a city, mountain, river, harbor, or the like. 3. an approximately horizontal gallery or corridor in a mine. 4. the burrow of an animal. 5. Dial. a funnel. v.t. 6. to construct a passageway through or under: to tunnel a mountain. 7. to make or excavate (a tunnel or underground passage): to tunnel a passage under a river. 8. to move or proceed by or as if by boring a tunnel: The river tunneled its way through the mountain. 9. to pierce or hollow out, as with tunnels. v.i. 10. to make a tunnel or tunnels: to tunnel through the Alps. [1400-50; late ME tonel (n.) < MF tonele, tonnelle funnel-shaped net, fem. of tonnel cask, dim. of tonne TUN; see -ELLE] |
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