1 VERB 探索;探究 If you plumb something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it. 探索;探究 [literary]
SYN delve into, measure, explore, probe
2 ADV [ADVERB preposition] 恰恰;正好 If something is plumb in a particular place, it is exactly in that place. 恰恰;正好 [informal]
SYN exactly, precisely, bang, slap
3 VERB 为(建筑物)敷设水管 When someone plumbs a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water. 为(建筑物)敷设水管
4 ADV [ADVERB adjective, ADVERB with verb] 完全地;不折不扣地 Plumb is used to give emphasis to an adjective or verb that describes a feeling or condition. 完全地;不折不扣地 [US, informal, spoken, emphasis]
5 PHRASE 经受极度的…;表现出极端的… If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree. 经受极度的…;表现出极端的…
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They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair. [+ of]
他们常常陷入孤独、屈辱和绝望的深渊。
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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?
6 PHRASE 糟糕到新低点;降至最低点 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. 糟糕到新低点;降至最低点 [Also + of]
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