plumb

1. V-T If you plumb something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it. 探出究竟[文學(xué)性]

She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions. 她從未放棄過洞悉我內(nèi)心深處情感的努力。

2. V-T When someone plumbs a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water. 鋪設(shè)水管

She learned to wire and plumb the house herself. 她學(xué)會(huì)了自己給房子排線和鋪設(shè)水管。

3. PHRASE If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree. 經(jīng)受極度的···; 表現(xiàn)出極端的···[oft PHR 'of' n]

They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation, and despair. 他們常常陷入孤獨(dú)、屈辱和絕望的深淵。

4. PHRASE 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. 糟糕到新低點(diǎn); 降至最低點(diǎn)[oft PHR 'of' n]

Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths. 這兩國關(guān)系已降至最低點(diǎn)。