1 PHRASAL VERB 挖出;掘起 If you dig up something, you remove it from the ground where it has been buried or planted. 挖出;掘起
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You would have to dig up the plant yourself. [VERB PREP. noun]
你得自己把那株植物挖出来。
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More bodies have been dug up at the site. [VERB PREP. noun (not pronoun)]
在那个地点又挖掘出几具尸体。
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Dig it up once the foliage has died down. [VERB noun PREP.]
叶子掉光后就把它挖出来。
2 PHRASAL VERB 掘地;挖洞 If you dig up an area of land, you dig holes in it. 掘地;挖洞 [Also VERB n PREPOSITION]
3 PHRASAL VERB 发现，查明(信息或事实) If you dig up information or facts, you discover something that has not previously been widely known. 发现，查明(信息或事实) [Also VERB n PREPOSITION]
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Managers are too expensive and important to spend time digging up market information. [VERB PREP. noun]
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。
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His description fits perfectly the evidence dug up by Clyde. [VERB-ed PREP.]
他的描述和克莱德发现的证据正好吻合。
4 PHRASAL VERB 发掘;发现并利用 If you dig up something or someone, you find them and use or employ them. 发掘;发现并利用 [informal]
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When something happens anywhere in the world, NPR digs up an expert from someplace or other. [VERB PREP. noun (not pronoun)]
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。
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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。