excavates

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

excavates详解释义

excavates

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）

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"

excavates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。

excavates近义词

dig unearth mine dig up quarry dig out exhume hollow out scoop out burrow scoop shovel ditch grub gouge deepen up pull up pull dredge hollow turn up inter bury