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词汇 plumb
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plumb

verb
/plʌm/
/plʌm/
(literary)
动词形式
present simple I / you / we / they plumb
/plʌm/
/plʌm/
he / she / it plumbs
/plʌmz/
/plʌmz/
past simple plumbed
/plʌmd/
/plʌmd/
past participle plumbed
/plʌmd/
/plʌmd/
-ing form plumbing
/ˈplʌmɪŋ/
/ˈplʌmɪŋ/
Idioms Phrasal Verbs
  1. plumb something to try to understand or succeed in understanding something mysterious探索;钻研;探究 synonym fathom
    • She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche.她毕生探索人类心灵的奥秘。
    • He had clearly plumbed the general sense of the message.他已经清楚地弄清了这条信息的大致意思。
    Collocations DictionaryPlumb is used with these nouns as the object:
    • depth
    词源verb Middle English (originally in the sense ‘sounding lead’): via Old French from Latin plumbum ‘lead’. plumb something in. late 19th cent.: back-formation from plumber.
Idioms
plumb the depths of something
  1. to be or to experience an extreme example of something unpleasant陷入(痛苦等的)深渊;深入…深处
    • His latest novel plumbs the depths of horror and violence.他最新的小说充斥着极端恐怖和暴力。
    • It was at that stage in her life when she plumbed the depths of despair.正是在她人生的那个阶段,她陷入了绝望的深渊。
    • The team's poor performances plumbed new depths last night when they lost 10–2.昨晚这个队的糟糕表现达到了新低纪录,以 2:10 输掉了。
    • The story plumbed the depths of tabloid journalism.这个故事完全迎合了小报的低级趣味。

plumb

adverb
/plʌm/
/plʌm/
  1. (used before prepositions用于介词前) exactly恰恰;正好
    • He was standing plumb in the middle of the road.他站在路正中间。
  2. (old-fashioned, North American English, informal) completely完全;彻底
    • He's plumb crazy.他彻底疯了。
  3. 词源adverb Middle English (originally in the sense ‘sounding lead’): via Old French from Latin plumbum ‘lead’.
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