dig up

英 [dɪɡ ʌp]

美 [dɪɡ ʌp]

挖出; 掘起; 掘地; 挖洞; 发现，查明（信息或事实）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 挖出;掘起
  If youdig upsomething, you remove it from the ground where it has been buried or planted.
  1. You would have to dig up the plant yourself...
     你得自己把那株植物挖出来。
  2. More bodies have been dug up at the site...
     在那个地点又挖掘出几具尸体。
  3. Dig it up once the foliage has died down.
     叶子掉光后就把它挖出来。
• PHRASAL VERB 掘地;挖洞
  If youdig upan area of land, you dig holes in it.
  1. Yesterday they continued the search, digging up the back yard of a police station.
     昨天他们继续搜寻，在一座警察局的后院里挖掘寻找。
• PHRASAL VERB 发现，查明(信息或事实)
  If youdig upinformation or facts, you discover something that has not previously been widely known.
  1. Managers are too expensive and important to spend time digging up market information...
     经理的薪金过高，职责太过重大，不能将时间浪费在挖掘市场信息上。
  2. His description fits perfectly the evidence dug up by Clyde.
     他的描述和克莱德发现的证据正好吻合。
• PHRASAL VERB 发掘;发现并利用
  If youdig upsomething or someone, you find them and use or employ them.
  1. When something happens anywhere in the world, NPR digs up an expert from someplace or other...
     世界上任何一个角落一有新闻发生，全国公共广播电台就会不知从什么地方挖个专家出来。
  2. If you dug up an old medical book from the sixties, it would tell you that childhood leukemia is incurable.
     如果找一本 20 世纪 60 年代的旧医学书出来的话，它会告诉你儿童白血病是不治之症。

英英释义

verb

• find by digging in the ground
  1. I dug up an old box in the garden
  Synonym:excavateturn up
• remove, harvest, or recover by digging
  1. dig salt
  2. dig coal
  Synonym:digdig out

双语例句

• What did you dig up on Mr.X?
  你挖到了神秘先生的什么消息？
• The jeweler was able to dig up the ring we wanted.
  宝石匠能发掘出我们想要的戒指。
• Public utilities dig up roads to lay pipes.
  公共事业公司挖路铺设管道。
• They live on grasslands where they can easily dig up ants, grubs, and worms.
  他们生活在草原上，在那儿可以很轻易的挖掘到蚂蚁、蛆和其它蠕虫。
• His description fits perfectly the evidence dug up by Clyde.
  他的描述和克莱德发现的证据正好吻合。
• You would have to dig up the plant yourself
  你得自己把那株植物挖出来。
• When something happens anywhere in the world, NPR digs up an expert from someplace or other
  世界上任何一个角落一有新闻发生，全国公共广播电台就会不知从什么地方挖个专家出来。
• Managers are too expensive and important to spend time digging up market information
  经理的薪金过高，职责太过重大，不能将时间浪费在挖掘市场信息上。
• I turned to look at a few other students and some have been dug, and I quickly held back excited to continue to dig up.
  我转身看看，别的同学有的已挖出几个了，我连忙忍住兴奋，继续挖了起来。
• If you dig up the past, all you get is dirty.
  如果你翻旧帐，你看得的只会是肮脏。