digging的意思|digging的解释-里氏词典

digging ['digiŋ]

n. 挖掘

The prisoner escaped by digging an underground tunnel.
囚犯挖了一条地道逃跑了。
I spent the morning digging.
我整个上午都在不停地挖.
Stop slacking and get on with that digging!
别偷懒, 继续挖!

digging

[ noun ]
the act of digging
<noun.act>
there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton

Dig \Dig\ (d[i^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dug} (d[u^]g) or
{Digged} (d[i^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Digging}. -- Digged is
archaic.] [OE. diggen, perh. the same word as diken, dichen
(see {Dike}, {Ditch}); cf. Dan. dige to dig, dige a ditch; or
(?) akin to E. 1st dag. [root]67.]
1. To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to
open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or
other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if
with a spade.

Be first to dig the ground. --Dryden.

2. To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.

3. To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing
earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.

4. To thrust; to poke. [Colloq.]

You should have seen children . . . dig and push
their mothers under the sides, saying thus to them:
Look, mother, how great a lubber doth yet wear
pearls. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).

5. To like; enjoy; admire. The whole class digs Pearl Jam.
[Colloq.]
[PJC]

{To dig down}, to undermine and cause to fall by digging; as,
to dig down a wall.

{To dig from}, {To dig out of}, {To dig out}, {To dig up}, to
get out or obtain by digging; as, to dig coal from or out
of a mine; to dig out fossils; to dig up a tree. The
preposition is often omitted; as, the men are digging
coal, digging iron ore, digging potatoes.

{To dig in},
(a) to cover by digging; as, to dig in manure.
(b) To entrench oneself so as to give stronger resistance;
-- used of warfare or negotiating situations.

{to dig in one's heels} To offer stubborn resistance.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

Digging \Dig"ging\, n.
1. The act or the place of digging or excavating.

Syn: excavation, dig.

2. pl. Places where ore is dug; especially, certain
localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at
which gold is obtained. [Recent]

3. pl. Region; locality. [Low]

4. a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or
confusion).

Syn: ransacking, rummage.
[WordNet 1.5]

Arlo Quint, 12, said he unearthed the Wagner card and three others while digging for worms in his back yard Monday.
"It was like digging through wet pie crust," Richards said.
The best way for leaders such as Governors Martinez and Bangerter to avoid politically damaging tax revolts is to squeeze the most value out of existing revenues before they even think of digging deeper into the pockets of taxpayers.
Rescue teams began digging toward the men within 20 minutes of the collapse, said Ronnie McDowell, an instructor with the department in Harlan.
Mrs. Bush does do some digging outside her summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine, but even there "I have someone who puts the garden in for me because I'm not there enough.
The bulk of the digging, it seemed, had already been done by DTI inspectors. Comparatively little follow-up work by the police was considered necessary. The 11 individual defendants were not interviewed before they were arrested in November 1989.
John C. Biddle, 73, of Elburn, 40 miles west of Chicago, said the skull was found five years ago while the family was digging a pond in a swampy area.
After about a month of digging, the archaeologists have unearthed the soggy timbers of a wharf that a John Eustis bought in 1709 on property abutting what was then Boston's waterfront.
He analyzed himself, digging like an archaeologist past layers of his own repressed memories.
Palestinians in Jerusalem's Old City rioted in July, forcing Israeli workers to halt digging an entrance in a narrow side street off the Via Dolorosa, where tradition says Jesus carried the cross to his crucifixion.
"The Soldiers Manual of Common Tasks" is the Army's camouflage-covered bible, a compendium of instruction on everything from digging a foxhole to knocking out a tank.
The Maranon (Spanish for cashew tree) is the heart of the neighborhood, an aging, densely-packed slum built at the turn of the century to warehouse workers digging the nearby Panama Canal.
He said their bodies and those of 18 other villagers lay in a local school building because the rain prevented villagers from digging a mass grave.
Their case will depend in part on producing witnesses who saw the digging on their farm that they say unearthed the bronzes.
With Pravda headlining "Our pain and tragedy" on its front page and television showing soldiers digging for schoolchildren in piles of rubble, Soviet media have covered the devastating earthquake in Armenia with unprecedented detail and urgency.
And Leholm noted the drought came at a time when many farmers were just digging out from the agricultural crisis of the early 1980s.
Further digging led to the discovery of Karan Johnson and delivery of the letter on Sept. 27.
Further digging led to the decision to mount the largest-ever raid on a company's offices. In a dawn swoop on June 26 1991, 135 revenue investigators and police officers raided 13 locations.
"For the first time, we can write its history." As LeBlanc talked, he and Fathy Hassanein, director of the Egyptian Antiquities Organization's National Documentation Center, walked through scores of excavators digging toward the valley's bedrock.
The first evidence of Spanish contact at Moccasin Bend was found in 1915 by an archaeologist named Clarence Moore, who spent a year digging at sites along the Tennessee River between Paducah, Ky., and Knoxville.
The former heritage minister was given sharp handling by a media pack more interested in personal muck-raking than digging deeper into the financial and political Westminster miasmas. Mellor's response?
Excavations at another site believed to be a mass grave for peasants was suspended after water seeped into the cavity and prevented further digging.
"Rescuers are digging in the rubble," state trooper W.L. Kelly said.
Under the gaze of police on Thursday, Martinez went to work digging up the new grave and quickly revealed the body of a man in his 30s.
The Border Patrol has tried to stop vehicle traffic across the desert by digging shallow trenches, but smugglers have been able to fill in the ditches to drive through, Keating said.
Slowly but surely Williams Holdings is digging itself out of the hole in which it fell after its Racal bid failed.
Col. Robert Trotter. "Just because we're late doesn't mean they won't get what they deserve." The skeletons were unearthed by construction workers digging a house foundation in Fort Erie, Ontario, across the Niagara River from Buffalo.
Melissa Chambers reportedly told authorities the deathbed tale the next day, and the digging began March 11.
No doubt it would have taken a little extra digging below the surface of events to discover that the underlying politics of modern Arizona are quite interesting.
Europeans older than 50 can still remember digging makeshift homes out of the rubble, eating dogs and cats, begging GIs for chocolate bars.

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