burrow

单词辨析:

dig burrow delve excavate tunnel 【导航词义:挖】
dig v. 挖,掘
〔辨析〕

指用手、工具、机器等挖洞、掘土。

〔例证〕

dig a hole in the ground

在地上挖个洞

The dog is digging in the backyard.

狗在后院刨坑。

After digging down about 30m, they found a big iron box.

向下挖了大约30米,他们找到一个大铁盒子。

burrow v. 挖掘;挖洞
〔辨析〕

指挖洞或开掘通道。

〔例证〕

The thief tried to burrow a narrow path downward.

小偷试图朝下挖出一条窄窄的通道。

The groundhog burrowed into the earth.

那只土拨鼠挖洞钻入了土里。

delve v. 搜寻,翻找
〔辨析〕

指把手伸进袋子、容器等深处找寻某物。

〔例证〕

She delved into her schoolbag and brought out a pen.

她在自己的书包里翻找着,拿出一支钢笔。

Mary delved in her handbag for the passport.

玛丽在手提包里翻找护照。

excavate v. [正式]开凿;发掘
〔辨析〕

指挖洞、开凿隧道等,也指科学家或考古学家发掘出古物。

〔例证〕

It took them 10 years to excavate the tunnel.

他们花了10年时间才挖掘出这条隧道。

The archeologists are discussing how to excavate the buried ancient city.

考古学家们正在讨论如何发掘出被埋的古城。

tunnel v. 挖,挖掘
〔辨析〕

指开凿隧道、挖地道等,也指昆虫挖掘洞穴。

〔例证〕

The villagers on the remote island have been dreaming of tunnelling under the sea.

那座偏远小岛上的居民一直梦想着开凿海底隧道。

The grubs tunnelled into the trunk.

小虫子钻进了树干里。

相关例句:

Mora's hunger lures her back to the warthog burrow.

莫拉的饥饿把它诱回到疣猪洞。

When there is a full moon, this nocturnal rodent is careful to stay in its burrow.

月圆之夜,这种夜间活动的啮齿类动物会小心地呆在地洞里不出来。

I sometimes might use another animal's burrow instead of digging my own.

有时我会用其他动物的洞穴而不是自己挖。

The larvae burrow into cracks in the floor.

幼虫钻进了地板的缝隙里。

The hunter pushed his hand into the burrow and pulled out the crane.

猎人把手伸进洞穴,拽出了仙鹤。

There is nothing preventing her from dragging the cricket into the burrow if she chooses to do so.

如果她选择将蟋蟀拽入地洞,没有什么东西会阻止她那样做。