unearthing

英 [ʌnˈɜːθɪŋ]

美 [ʌnˈɜːrθɪŋ]

v.  挖掘; 发掘; 使出土; (偶然或经搜寻)发现，找到
unearth的现在分词

COCA.42676

柯林斯词典

• VERB 发现；揭露
  If someoneunearthsfacts or evidence about something bad, they discover them with difficulty, usually because they were being kept secret or were being lied about.
  1. Researchers have unearthed documents indicating her responsibility for the forced adoption of children...
     调查人员已经发现了证明她对强制收养儿童事件负有责任的文件。
  2. The frauds have been unearthed by investigators working for the Camden and Islington Health Authority.
     这些欺诈行为已被卡姆登和伊斯灵顿卫生局的调查人员揭露了出来。
  3. ...the unearthing of a plot to assassinate the President.
     行刺总统的阴谋的曝光
• VERB 发掘，挖掘（埋藏物）
  If someoneunearthssomething that is buried, they find it by digging in the ground.
  1. Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant believed to be 500,000 years old.
     化石搜集者们发掘出了一具大象骨骼，据信距今已有50万年。
  2. ...saying that the treasure had been unearthed on his property...
     称宝藏是在他家地里挖掘出来的
  3. More human remains have been unearthed in the north.
     北部又挖掘出了更多的人体遗骸。
• VERB 找到，发现（隐藏或丢失之物）
  If you say that someonehas unearthedsomething, you mean that they have found it after it had been hidden or lost for some time.
  1. From somewhere, he had unearthed a black silk suit...
     他不知从哪里找来了一套黑色的丝绸衣服。
  2. Today I unearthed a copy of '90 Minutes' and had a chuckle at your article.
     今天我找到了一期《90分钟》杂志，读了你的文章咯咯笑了半天。
  3. ...his reputation for unearthing talent from the most unlikely sources.
     他能从最不可能的地方发现人才的名声

双语例句

• After unearthing new clues in the lab and making unexpected personal discoveries, the team realizes they belong back in Washington, D.C.
  重归实验室揭开全新线索的同时，大家伙儿也有各自的发现，他们都悟到原来他们真正的归属就是在华盛顿一起协同工作的地方。
• Part two: the situation of bronze weapon unearthing and Analysis on typical ruins.
  第二部分：铜兵器出土情况和典型遗址分析。
• Unearthing more uranium is expensive and time-consuming.
  发掘更多的铀矿成本昂贵而且耗费时间。
• This paper clarifies the significance of the pre-suppositional theory in language communication and lays a special emphasis on the possibility of the recipient's improving his capability of unearthing sufficient information under the structure by observing the presupposition triggers.
  本文阐明了前提理论在语言交际中的重要性，并强调了通过前提触发语提高信息接收者克分挖掘深层信息的能力的可能性。
• Respondents said the person they most dread unearthing one of the skeletons in their closet is their partner, though a quarter believed their other half would support them if they did find out.
  调查对象说他们最害怕自己的伴侣发现自己不可告人的秘密，而有四分之一的人认为即使另一半发现了自己的秘密还是会支持自己。
• As a dedicated teacher, she consistently devotes herself to serious scholarly research programs, unearthing and performing many scores that have previously been neglected.
  作为一位献身于歌唱艺术的教授，她持续不断地进行多项严肃音乐的学术研究，并致力演出苍海遗珠之作。
• In recent years particularly, with the unearthing of more archaeological materials and the application of theories of cultural anthropology, much progress has been made.
  近年来，随着更多考古学材料的发掘和文化人类学理论的应用，学界关于这一问题的研究取得诸多新进展。
• This thesis is working on the direction of unearthing these signs and their deeper reasons, discovering the possible influences to the literature and non-literature field, and reappraising the value and the limitations of aestheticism on its basis.
  呈现这些征象、挖掘其深层原因、指出其对文学或非文学领域的可能性影响，并在此基础上重新评价唯美主义的价值意义及局限正是本文努力的方向。
• He forms a set of narration which opposes May 4th movement and left wing narrations, through unearthing "decadence".
  他通过发掘颓废，形成了一套与五四和左翼对立的叙事。
• You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information.
  你能继续踌躇下去，不过此时你必须一直处于发现真正新信息的阶段。