excavate

verb

1. 发掘，挖出（古建筑或古物）
   to dig in the ground to look for old buildings or objects that have been buried for a long time; to find sth by digging in this way
   1. The site has been excavated by archaeologists.
      这个遗址已被考古学家发掘出来。
   2. pottery and weapons excavated from the burial site
      从墓地挖掘出的陶器和兵器
2. 挖掘，开凿，挖空（洞、隧道等）
   to make a hole, etc. in the ground by digging
   1. The body was discovered when builders excavated the area.
      建筑工人挖地时发现了这具尸体。

1. VERB 发掘，挖掘（古物等）
   When archaeologists or other people excavate a piece of land, they remove earth carefully from it and look for things such as pots, bones, or buildings which are buried there, in order to discover information about the past.
   1. A new Danish expedition is again excavating the site in annual summer digs.
      一支新的丹麦探险队又在那个遗址上进行一年一度的夏季挖掘。
2. VERB 挖;开凿
   To excavate means to dig a hole in the ground, for example in order to build there.
   1. A contractor was hired to drain the reservoir and to excavate soil from one area for replacement with clay.
      雇了一个承包商抽干水库的水，挖掉一个区域的泥土后再用黏土填上。

1. A new Danish expedition is again excavating the site in annual summer digs.
   一支新的丹麦探险队又在那个遗址上进行一年一度的夏季挖掘。
2. A contractor was hired to drain the reservoir and to excavate soil from one area for replacement with clay.
   雇了一个承包商抽干水库的水，挖掉一个区域的泥土后再用黏土填上。
3. Those who excavate sites of ancient culture or ancient tombs without permission are punishable for larceny.
   私自挖掘古文化遗址、古墓葬的，以盗窃论处。
4. To follow up this work many plans have been made by various universities and museums to excavate early remains.
   紧接着这一工作之后，许多大学和博物馆制订计划，准备发掘早期遗址。
5. Research of Intelligent Inference and Graphical Presentation of Excavate Coal Working Face Supersedure in Coal Mine
   煤矿采煤工作面接替的智能推理与图形化研究
6. Excavate a buried city, a Greek vase.
   发掘出一地下城市、一希腊花瓶。
7. In the material of Microbiology of Environmental Engineering teaching, the idea of the teaching material should be excavate sufficiently in order to infiltrate quality education in science education.
   在《环境工程微生物学》课程教学中，教师应充分挖掘教材的思想性，在教学内容中渗透素质教育。
8. "Permit to construct or erect any building, hut or shelter or excavate any cave"
   建造或建立任何建筑物、棚屋或遮蔽处，或挖掘任何洞穴的许可证
9. Libraries should use the concept of "systematic thought" to wholly and actively excavate librarians latent knowledge, realizing the communication and share of the knowledge.
   图书馆要运用“系统思考”的理念整体地、动态地挖掘馆员个体的隐性知识，实现知识的交流与共享。
10. Depenging on warm-hearted services and professional technology experiences, we have been trying our best to excavate commerce application from the science and technology to help customers develop business.
    我们以热忱的服务和专业的技术经验，努力从科技中发掘出可有效协助客户发展业务的商业应用。
11. They plan to excavate a large hole before putting in the foundations.
    他们计划打地基前先挖个大洞。
12. Excavate horizontally, in mining.
    在矿业中水平地挖掘。
13. Nevertheless, because of his ideology and ultra-reaction to rationalistic practice, Hayek focus to excavate the tradition of latitudinarianism and evolutionism rooted in western society.
    不过，由于哈耶克本人的意识形态取向以及对当时日益偏盛的理性实践的过激反应，导致了他集中主要精力去发掘西方社会中的自由演化传统。
14. The team made a meticulous measurement to the pagodas first and recorded down the decrepit circumstance. Then, they began to excavate the cultural relics.
    考古队首先对三塔进行了细致的测量，记录了三塔的残破情况。然后开始对文物的发掘。
15. The paper trys to excavate the quintessence of Confucianism from the angle of social security system, social security idea and social security tradition.
    本文试从社保制度体系、保理念和社保传统角度挖掘孔孟社会保障思想中的精髓以为今鉴。
16. Archaeologists excavate, preserve, study, and classify artifacts of the near and distant past in order to develop a picture of how people lived in earlier cultures and societies.
    为了描绘人类在早期文明和社会中的生活景象，考古学家挖掘、保护、研究并且将近代和古代起舞分类。
17. This paper mainly analyses the cause of English ambiguity and its humour effects to excavate its value of beauty.
    本文主要从词汇歧义的角度分析英语歧义的成因及产生的幽默效果，从而挖掘它的美学价值。
18. Such proposals bring Confucius's rehabilitation into the open. Large-diameter longhole blasting was used to excavate soil-rock in some engineering project.
    诸如此类的建议为孔子的复原打开了大门。某工程的土石方开挖采用大直径深孔爆破方式。
19. Our country's profound traditional culture contains very affluent eco-ethic thoughts, thereby formed the massive traditional eco-culture, so constantly excavate and exalt its internal value have momentous practical meaning for building socialistic harmonious society.
    摘要我国博大精深的传统文化中蕴涵着极其丰富的生态伦理思想，由此形成了沉积厚重的传统生态文化，不断挖掘和提升传统生态文化的内在价值，对于构建社会主义和谐社会具有重要的现实意义。
20. Hearing about what the farmers had found, the government sent a team of archeologists to excavate the well.
    听到这些农民的发现，政府派了一队考古学家去发掘该井。
21. How to Excavate and Keep the Local Speciality of Tourism Souvenirs
    如何挖掘和保持旅游纪念品的地方特色
22. The characteristics, which promote teaching resources of the core competitiveness for the college and excavate potential, can provide new construction perspective.
    这一特质又为大学提升教学资源核心竞争力，挖掘教学资源潜力提供了新的建设视角。
23. Excavate Algorithms to Study on the Basis of Authoritative Resources of Web of Structure of Chaining
    基于链接结构的web权威资源挖掘算法研究
24. Art and science are not implacable, but can excavate to have great potentialities.
    艺术与科学并非不可调和，而是大有潜力可挖掘。
25. Excavate coal is primary production link in coal mine production, therefor, Weaving excavate coal working face supersedure plan has instructional meaning.
    采煤是煤矿生产中的主要生产环节，因而编制采煤工作面接替计划对煤矿生产具有指导性意义。
26. I let him excavate around the mine.
    我准许他在金矿周围挖掘。
27. It took a long time to excavate the ancient city of Troy.
    挖掘古老的特少伊城，花了很长的时间。
28. Did you excavate the entire chimney?
    把整个烟囱都掏空了吗？
29. The wind power field development traveling industry should excavate own superiority in these aspects?
    风电场发展旅游产业应该在那些方面发掘自身优势？
30. The aquatic environment for excavate coal subside seeper area in Huainan;
    采煤塌陷水域已成为淮南市矿区一种特殊的地表水体。

  dig burrow delve excavate tunnel【导航词义：挖】

  dig v. 挖，掘

〔辨析〕指用手、工具、机器等挖洞、掘土。

  burrow v. 挖掘；挖洞

〔辨析〕指挖洞或开掘通道。

  delve v. 搜寻，翻找

〔辨析〕指把手伸进袋子、容器等深处找寻某物。

  excavate v. 〈正式〉开凿；发掘

〔辨析〕指挖洞、开凿隧道等，也指科学家或考古学家发掘出古物。

  tunnel v. 挖，挖掘

〔辨析〕指开凿隧道、挖地道等，也指昆虫挖掘洞穴。

verb

1. remove the inner part or the core of
   1. the mining company wants to excavate the hillside

   Synonym:    dighollow

2. form by hollowing
   1. Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team
   2. excavate a cavity

3. find by digging in the ground
   1. I dug up an old box in the garden

   Synonym:    dig upturn up

4. recover through digging
   1. Schliemann excavated Troy
   2. excavate gold

   Synonym:    unearth