plumb
vt. 使垂直; 用测铅测; 探索
adv. 恰恰,正; 垂直地
vi. 做管道工
If you plumb something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it.
She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions...
她从未放弃过探究我内心深处情感的尝试。
Magda had plumbed her own heart for answers.
玛格达在自己心中搜寻答案。
If something is plumb in a particular place, it is exactly in that place.
The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street...
宾馆正好坐落在商街的中段。
Grenville took another wallop plumb on the jaw.
格伦维尔又受了一拳,正中下巴。
When someone plumbs a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water.
She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.
她学会了自己给房子拉接电线、敷设水管。
Plumb is used to give emphasis to an adjective or verb that describes a feeling or condition.
I find I'm plumb depressed by it...
我发现自己被它搞得沮丧透顶。
This thing has plumb worn me out.
这件事让我筋疲力尽。
If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree.
They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair...
他们常常陷入孤独、屈辱和绝望的深渊。
Is this the first of many questions that will plumb the depths of stupidity?
这个之后是不是还有众多如此愚蠢透顶的问题?
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.
Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths...
两国关系已降到了最低谷。
Last night's harrowing television pictures plumbed new depths of depravity.
昨晚触目惊心的电视画面堕落到了新低。
1. the metal bob of a plumb line
1. measure the depth of something
2. weight with lead
3. examine thoroughly and in great depth
4. adjust with a plumb line so as to make vertical
1. exactly vertical;
1. completely; used as intensifiers;
2. conforming to the direction of a plumb line
3. exactly;
vertical, perpendicular, upright, erect, plumb
这些形容词均有"垂直的,竖式的"之意。
out of plumb
不完全垂直的
out of plumb 或 off plumb
不垂直的
No one could plumb the mystery.
没人能看破这秘密.
Emit four vertical line and three horizontal line, plumb below point.
可产生四条垂直线和三条水平线, 带下对点.
Charles & quot ; Chuck & quot ; Plumb was a U.S. Navy jet pilot in Vietnam.
查尔斯. 恰克. 帕朗柏是越战中美国海军的一位喷射机驾驶员.
It was unprofitable to plumb that sort of thing.
这种事弄个水落石出没有什么好处.
God will stretch measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of desolation.
耶和华必将空虚的准绳,混沌的钱铊,拉在其上.