VERB 探索;探究 If you plumb something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it.
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。
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 is plumb in a particular place, it is exactly in that place.
The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street... 宾馆正好坐落在商街的中段。
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 someone plumbs a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water.
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 Plumb is used to give emphasis to an adjective or verb that describes a feeling or condition.
I find I'm plumb depressed by it... 我发现自己被它搞得沮丧透顶。
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 someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree.
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。
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 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.
Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths... 两国关系已降到了最低谷。
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。