plumbed

英 [plʌmd]

美 [plʌmd]

v.  探索; 钻研; 探究
plumb的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 探索；探究
  If youplumbsomething mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it.
  1. She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions...
     她从未放弃过探究我内心深处情感的尝试。
  2. Magda had plumbed her own heart for answers.
     玛格达在自己心中搜寻答案。
• ADV 恰恰；正好
  If something isplumbin a particular place, it is exactly in that place.
  1. The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street...
     宾馆正好坐落在商街的中段。
  2. Grenville took another wallop plumb on the jaw.
     格伦维尔又受了一拳，正中下巴。
• VERB 为（建筑物）敷设水管
  When someoneplumbsa building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water.
  1. She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.
     她学会了自己给房子拉接电线、敷设水管。
• ADV 完全地；不折不扣地
  Plumbis used to give emphasis to an adjective or verb that describes a feeling or condition.
  1. I find I'm plumb depressed by it...
     我发现自己被它搞得沮丧透顶。
  2. This thing has plumb worn me out.
     这件事让我筋疲力尽。
• PHRASE 经受极度的…；表现出极端的…
  If someoneplumbs the depths ofan unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree.
  1. They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair...
     他们常常陷入孤独、屈辱和绝望的深渊。
  2. Is this the first of many questions that will plumb the depths of stupidity?
     这个之后是不是还有众多如此愚蠢透顶的问题？
• PHRASE 糟糕到新低点；降至最低点
  If you say that somethingplumbs new depths, you mean that it is worse than all the things of its kind that have existed before, even though some of them have been very bad.
  1. Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths...
     两国关系已降到了最低谷。
  2. Last night's harrowing television pictures plumbed new depths of depravity.
     昨晚触目惊心的电视画面堕落到了新低。

双语例句

• We've discovered that our house isn't plumbed properly.
  我们发现我们房子的水管安装得不对。
• In Asia and Europe shares tumbled, led by financial stocks, and the dollar plumbed fresh lows against the euro amid growing concerns that other financial institutions could suffer the same fate as Bear.
  亚欧股市重挫，金融类股领跌。由于市场日益担忧其它金融机构将遭遇与贝尔斯登相同的命运，美元兑欧元汇率创下新低。
• Roy plumbed the depths of despair when his wife left him.
  妻子离开他后，罗伊陷入了绝望的深洲。
• In the sub-zero weather, their exhausts plumbed white in the grey streets.
  在严寒天气，他们的排气管在灰色的街道上吐着缕缕白烟。
• His first novel," Triple Door," plumbed the adolescent angst of those withering under the pressures of family and school.
  他的第一部小说“三重门”，探测此根据家庭和学校的压力萎缩是青少年焦虑。
• Magda had plumbed her own heart for answers.
  玛格达在自己心中搜寻答案。
• Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths
  两国关系已降到了最低谷。
• Sewage and waste disposal is properly plumbed from the facility and does not provide a potential source of contamination to contact surfaces, products, components, water supplies, etc.
  污水与废弃物通过工厂管道正确排放，不能成为接触面，产品，原料与供应水的潜在污染源。
• The Japanese-oriented Confucianism and the Chinese Poetry Written in the Period of Edo; situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed.
  处在或者延伸到极大的深度；深得无法测量。
• Nevertheless, it now looks to brokers and Charterers as though the superyacht market is recovering from the low point it plumbed in the first two months of this year.
  不过，在经纪公司和租赁公司看来，超级游艇市场目前似乎在从今年最初两个月直线下滑的低谷复苏。