pit
noun /pɪt/
/pɪt/
Idioms - [countable] a large deep hole in the ground
深洞；深坑 - We dug a deep pit in the yard.
我们在院子中挖了个深洞。 - The body had been dumped in a pit.
尸体被扔进了深坑。 - (figurative) The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit.
人的思想是一个深不可测的黑洞。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- shallow
- bottomless
- …
- dig
- We dug a deep pit in the yard.
- [countable] (especially in compounds
尤用于构成复合词 矿井 - a chalk/gravel pit
白垩／沙砾矿坑
- They extract the mineral from open pits and underground mines.
他们在露天矿和地下矿井开采矿物。 - a disused gravel pit
废弃的采石坑
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- deep
- shallow
- bottomless
- …
- dig
- a chalk/gravel pit
- (also coal mine)[countable] a place underground where coal is dug
矿井 - pit closures
煤矿关闭 - (British English) He went down the pit (= started work as a miner) when he left school.
他中学一毕业就当矿工了。
- Most boys in the town worked in the pits.
镇上的大多数男孩在矿井里工作。 - There's no more work in these pit villages.
这些矿井村里再没有活儿干了。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- open
- go down
- village
- closure
- in a/the pit
- pit closures
- [countable] a small shallow hole in the surface of something, especially a mark left on the surface of the skin by some disease, such as chickenpox
麻子；痘瘢 - enlarge image(especially North American English)(also stone especially in British English)[countable] a hard shell containing the nut or seed in the middle of some types of fruit
果核 - a peach pit
桃核
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- apricot
- peach
- etc.
- …
- remove
- a peach pit
- the pits[plural] (British English)(North American English usually the pit [countable])a place near the track where cars can stop for fuel, new tyres, etc. during a race
（赛车道旁的）维修站 - (also orchestra pit)[countable] the place in a theatre just in front of the stage where the orchestra sits and plays for an opera, a ballet, etc.
乐池， 乐队席 （舞台前乐队演奏的地方） - [countable] (North American English, informal) an armpit (= the part of the body under the arm where it joins the shoulder)
凹坑： 腋窝 - [countable] (North American English) the area of a stock exchange where a particular product is traded
（交易所中某一商品的）交易场所 - the corn pit
玉米交易厅
see also sandpit - the corn pit
deep hole深洞
mine矿
in skin皮肤
in fruit水果
in motor racing汽车赛
in theatre剧场
part of body身体部位
in business商业
词源noun senses 1 to 4 and noun senses 6 to 9,Old English pytt, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch put and German Pfütze, based on Latin puteus ‘well, shaft’. noun sense 5 mid 19th cent.: apparently from Dutch; related to pith.
Idioms
be the pits
- (informal) to be very bad or the worst example of something
是坏典型；是拙劣典型；最糟糕
a bottomless pit (of something)
- a thing or situation which seems to have no limits or seems never to end
无限度事物；无休止的状况；无底洞 - There isn't a bottomless pit of money for public spending.
公共开支并非用之不尽的。 - the bottomless pit of his sorrow
他无尽的悲哀
- There isn't a bottomless pit of money for public spending.
the pit of your/the stomach
- the bottom of the stomach where people say they feel strong feelings, especially fear
心窝；心底 - He had a sudden sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.
他内心深处突然有一种不祥之感。 - I felt a sickening feeling in the pit of my stomach when I saw the ambulance.
看到救护车的时候我心里感到一阵难受。
- He had a sudden sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach.