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 excavation [`ɛkskə'veʃən]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 挖掘, 发掘, 挖掘的洞

[医] 陷凹, 挖除


  1. Those foreigners are visiting the excavations.
    那些外国人正在参观出土文物。
  2. Excavation of the site will begin tomorrow.
    明天开始挖掘工作。
  3. The excavation of the bur city take a long time.
    发掘埋在地下的城市花了很长时间。


excavation
[ noun ]
  1. the act of digging

  2. <noun.act>
    there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton
  3. the site of an archeological exploration

  4. <noun.location>
    they set up camp next to the dig
  5. a hole in the ground made by excavating

  6. <noun.artifact>
  7. the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth

  8. <noun.act>


Excavation \Ex`ca*va"tion\, n. [L. excavatio: cf. F.
excavation.]
1. The act of excavating, or of making hollow, by cutting,
scooping, or digging out a part of a solid mass.

2. A cavity formed by cutting, digging, or scooping. ``A
winding excavation.'' --Glover.

3. (Engin.)
(a) An uncovered cutting in the earth, in distinction from
a {covered cutting} or {tunnel}.
(b) The material dug out in making a channel or cavity.

The delivery of the excavations at a distance of
250 feet. --E. L.
Corthell.

  1. The only previous excavation of Birka was conducted 100 years ago by Hjalmar Stolpe, a zoologist who came in search of insect fossils in 1871 and stayed 24 years to dig up many of the 2,500 Viking age graves.
  2. At least 30 gold miners died when a 200-foot wall of mud surrounding their excavation site collapsed and buried them in the remote Amazon jungle, authorities said.
  3. Opponents argue the exhaust and viabrations will damage the ancient stones, and that the highway will prevent excavation of Roman archaeological treasures in the necropolis.
  4. Tass, quoting from a report in the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta, said the bodies of foreigners were among those found during four days of excavation at a site in the Darnitsa Forest.
  5. The NATM or Shotcrete method activates the loadbearing capacity of the soil by a combination of the sequence and pattern of excavation and support elements. Support will primarily consist of sprayed concrete (Shotcrete) reinforcement and steel girders.
  6. The Fire Department ordered the evacuation of an office building next to the excavation containing the headquarters of United Press International, said department spokesman Ted Holmes.
  7. It will be the fifth excavation allowed by the Laotian government since the war ended.
  8. Water is more than 3 feet deep at the bottom of the pit, endangering not only the excavation but a row of towering columns nearby, Tawfik said.
  9. The flood halted dreams for extensive excavation of the harbor, considered one of the best preserved in the ancient Roman world and expected to yield many relics from Leptis' beginnings as a key Phoenician port and later a prosperous Roman city.
  10. They are planning a sit-in when the month-long excavation begins next Sunday or Monday.
  11. The excavation of the Korshavn Dugout presented a special problem requiring a method that had never been tried before, said Rieck.
  12. The PNET places identical limits on nuclear blasts for peaceful purposes, such as seismic exploration or excavation.
  13. A man died in New York City when he stepped into a puddle that was electrified by exposed wires at an excavation site.
  14. It was the third such joint excavation in communist-ruled Laos.
  15. Bomb disposal units planned to defuse the 1,000-pound device that was found during excavation in the suburb of Sachsenhausen, a police official said.
  16. The excavation on the beach was not because the sandy conditions above it made farming difficult.
  17. Aiken said he has asked the developer for a donation to help pay for the excavation.
  18. The excavation of Berdella's back yard was expected to be completed later today, he said, and police then planned a more thorough examination of the house.
  19. Laos is conducting a joint excavation with the United States at a site where an American plane is believed to have crashed during the Vietnam war, the State Department announced Monday.
  20. We don't know." The Polish and Egyptian archaeologists predict it'll be years before excavation and restoration is completed.
  21. Three chalk-and-brick foundation walls that archaeologists say were part of the back of the 17th century theater are visible in the excavation.
  22. There has been no major flood since 1946, largely because of a dike-building program comparable to the excavation of two Panama canals.
  23. It is the third Laos-U.S. excavation of an American warplane crash site.
  24. Vietnam previously allowed only one joint field project, the excavation of a B-52 bomber outside Hanoi in late 1985.
  25. The extent of the damage to the fuel may not be known until excavation begins at the two sites.
  26. Archaeologists discovered a 19,000-year-old skeleton on the shores of the Sea of Galilee during the excavation of a pre-historic settlement, a spokeswoman for the Department of Antiquities said.
  27. 'We do the excavation work, the Poles do a lot of the scaffolding.
  28. But archaeologists say most of the theater lies beyond the edge of the parking lot excavation under early 19th century row houses also owned by Hanson, which are under historic preservation orders.
  29. Rather, it seems the firm forgot to make a required conversion from tons to cubic yards in calculating costs for the excavation segments of the project, says an attorney for the Metropolitan Water District.
  30. I told him if I'm lucky, it'll be zero." Peter Olah has laid off more than half the staff of his excavation company in Upland and briefly considered closing down temporarily.
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