excavate
v. 挖掘；挖开；发掘（古物）
过去式：excavated 过去分词：excavated 现在分词：excavating 第三人称单数：excavates
近义词：dig，unearth，mine，digup，quarry，digout，exhume，hollowout，scoopout，burrow，scoop，shovel，ditch，grub，gouge，deepen，up，pullup，pull，dredge，hollow，turnup，inter，bury，
详细释义
v.(动词)
- 挖掘，挖出
- （开）凿，凿通
- 发掘
- 掘开，掘出
- 变成空洞
- 挖（空），挖（洞）
英英释义
Verb
- recover through digging;
"Schliemann excavated Troy" "excavate gold"
- find by digging in the ground;
"I dug up an old box in the garden"
- form by hollowing;
"Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team" "excavate a cavity"
- remove the inner part or the core of;
"the mining company wants to excavate the hillside"
例句
用作动词(v.)
- It took a long time to excavate the ancient city of Troy.挖掘古老的特洛伊城，花了很长时间。
- I let him excavate around the mine.我准许他在金矿周围挖掘。
- They plan to excavate a large hole.他们计划挖个大洞。
- The archaeologists excavated a buried city.考古学家发掘出一个埋在地下的城市。