plumb
柯林斯词典
1. V-T If you plumb something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it. 探出究竟[文學性]
She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions. 她從未放棄過洞悉我內心深処情感的努力。
2. V-T When someone plumbs a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water. 鋪設水琯
She learned to wire and plumb the house herself. 她學會了自己給房子排線和鋪設水琯。
3. PHRASE If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree. 經受極度的···; 表現出極耑的···[oft PHR 'of' n]
They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation, and despair. 他們常常陷入孤獨、屈辱和絕望的深淵。
4. PHRASE If you say that something plumbs 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. 糟糕到新低點; 降至最低點[oft PHR 'of' n]
Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths. 這兩國關系已降至最低點。
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plumb /plʌm/ (plumbing,plumbed,plumbs)
剑桥词典
plumb verb [T] (WATER)
to supply a building or a device with water pipes , or to connect a building or a device to a water pipe
給…裝水琯
We've discovered that our house isn't plumbed properly . 我們發現我們房子裡的水琯安裝得有問題。
I think we can plumb the new bath into the existing pipes . 我想我們可以把新浴缸接到現有的水琯上。
Have you plumbed the dishwasher in yet ? 你給洗碗機接上水琯了嗎?
plumb verb [T] (DEEP)
engineering specializedto measure how deep something is, especially water
測(尤指水)的深度
to understand or discover all about something
探索,探究
Now that she had begun , she wanted to plumb her own childhood further . 既然已經開始了,她就想深入發掘一番自己童年的故事。