plumbed

英 [plʌmd] 美 [plʌmd]

v.  探索; 钻研; 探究
plumb的过去分词和过去式

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  1. VERB 探索；探究
    If you plumb something 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。
  2. ADV 恰恰；正好
    If something is plumb in 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。
  3. VERB 为（建筑物）敷设水管
    When someone plumbs a 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。
  4. ADV 完全地；不折不扣地
    Plumb is 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。
  5. PHRASE 经受极度的…；表现出极端的…
    If someone plumbs the depths of an 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？
  6. PHRASE 糟糕到新低点；降至最低点
    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.
    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。
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双语例句

  1. Magda had plumbed her own heart for answers.
    玛格达在自己心中搜寻答案。
  2. Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths
    两国关系已降到了最低谷。
  3. 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。
  4. 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。
  5. Perhaps not surprisingly, some of Zettl's more recent achievements in the nano world seem to have plumbed the very limits of the Lilliputian.
    或许可说是意料之中，塞特尔在奈米领域的某些新成就探究了小人国的极限。
  6. Have you plumbed the dishwasther in yet?
    你把洗碟机接上水管了吗？
  7. Continuing problems in the markets were highlighted again yesterday as key interest rate indicators hit fresh highs while the dollar plumbed new lows against the euro, falling to a record low of$ 1.4966, although it recovered later in the day.
    货币市场持续存在的问题上周五再次得到突出体现，关键利率指标纷纷触及新高，而美元兑欧元汇率跌至新低，降至1.4966美元的创纪录低位，不过当日随后有所回升。
  8. He had plumbed the very depths of iniquity.
    他已经深测了罪恶的深渊。
  9. Sink plumbed with potable water, plus soap and towels provided for employees.
    有供应可饮用水的洗手池，有提供给员工使用的肥皂和手巾。
  10. 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。
  11. Tank expanders are plumbed to the water heater.
    坦克扩展器探测到的电热水器。
  12. 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。
  13. 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。
  14. The euro dropped to a one-year low against the dollar, European stocks plumbed two-month lows, while the bond markets of the weaker eurozone economies fell as rattled investors sought to sell.
    欧元兑美元降至一年低位，欧洲股市跌至两个月低位，而欧元区较弱经济体的债市随着慌张的投资者寻求出售而下跌。
  15. 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。
  16. 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。
  17. The dollar is zigzagging, falling below the90 yen mark Friday and testing the depths it plumbed against the euro a year ago.
    美元正在上蹿下跳，上周五对日圆跌破了90日圆关口，并且正在考验一年前对欧元创出的低点。
  18. 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。
  19. 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。
  20. When his friend was killed, he plumbed the depths of despair.
    他的朋友被害后，他陷入了绝望的深渊。
  21. The capacitance board and the power board are fixedly connected, and are mutually plumbed.
    功率板，与所述功率模块固定连接；
  22. Bush, who served two terms and left office having plumbed record lows in approval ratings and leaving a legacy of two wars and economic recession.
    布什已连任两届总统，卸任时，他的民意支持率降到历史新低，还留下了两场战争和经济衰退这一大堆“遗产”。
  23. If all the mysteries of mind and nature were fully plumbed;
    除非心灵与自然界的奥秘都已全部探索清楚；
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