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Definition of tunnel in English: tunnelnounPlural tunnels ˈtʌn(ə)lˈtənl 1An artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river. 人工地下通道（尤指隧道、地道、坑道） a road tunnel through the Pyrenees as modifier the tunnel mouth Example sentencesExamples - He conceded, however, that the toll might cause people to avoid the tunnel and use local roads instead.
- Authorities abroad are increasingly opting for road tunnels.
- A Swindon engineering company is taking a lead role in the design of a road tunnel beneath 5,000-year-old Stonehenge.
- I hope the tunnels and more roads will change the situation so I can have a car soon.
- The winning consortium is likely also to take over the running of the Dartford tunnel and road bridge that carries the M25 over the Thames east of London.
- A bank of trees here or a cycleway there makes no odds if you're building two major new roads and a massive tunnel.
- The Faroese also boast some spectacular road tunnels, but they're not so excited about these feats of engineering that they feel obliged to name them after people.
- Norway is home to the longest and the deepest road tunnels in the world.
- A tunnel has been built leading to the new underground ‘bat hotel’, which has tiered accommodation from which bats can hang.
- They are building a road tunnel through the area.
- New roads and tunnels have been built and public transport modernised.
- Whilst Alpine road and rail tunnels and the Channel tunnel have made travel between some of Europe's nations easier, physical and cultural barriers remain.
- As I went into the tunnel at Finchley Road I switched off all the interior lights.
- There are deep gashes in the roads; some are still blocked by landslides and a major road tunnel to the town has collapsed.
- Drivers must now call the police immediately if their vehicles break down on elevated roads, tunnels and bridges across the Huangpu River.
- Detective Constable Ian Thornton and PC Kim Wandless tracked Wood down to a tunnel under King's Road and he was arrested.
- We have a toll road here that goes through a tunnel under the river.
- The Limerick South Ring Road, including the tunnel, will allow traffic to bypass Limerick city by linking the Docks Road with the Ennis Road.
- Local villagers cut a tunnel road through the mountain and named it Guoliang Cave.
- A tunnel closed and the road was down to two lanes.
Synonyms underground passage, subterranean passage underpass, subway, hole, burrow shaft, gallery historical mine, sap - 1.1 An underground passage dug by a burrowing animal.
（动物）洞穴通道 Example sentencesExamples - They line the burrow tunnel with pebbles and shell fragments.
- It is not known if all the burrow nesting species excavate the tunnels or if some use tunnels dug by rodents or other animals.
- Animal tunnels incorporated into the design will also allow local wildlife to cross.
- Their burrows were normally underground, in long tunnels.
- Burrow tunnels were examined each day; in 1999, younger nestlings left the supplements uneaten.
- Many fungi are found in soil and often fostered by small ground animals and their feces-filled tunnels.
- Small mounds are created when moles burrow deep or tunnel under solid objects such as tree roots or sidewalks.
- It burrows a tunnel far into a sandy bank on the riverside and dwells therein, safe from cold, wind, rain and creatures that would devour it.
- 1.2 A passage in a sports stadium by which players enter or leave the field.
运动场运动员通道 he jogged off the field and into the tunnel Example sentencesExamples - One of the Turkey players stood in the tunnel and, gesturing to me, ran his fingers across his throat as if he wanted to cut it.
- Wenger claimed he didn't see the scuffles between opposing players and coaches in the stadium tunnel after the match.
- At 3: 25, Lynch leads the rest of the defensive backs out of the tunnel and onto the field for pre-game warm-ups.
- In Frankfurt the players are in the tunnel.
- Both sets of mascots click-clack out of the tunnel holding their players by the hands and then line up.
- That incident briefly flared up again as the players entered the tunnel after the game.
- By half-time it is clear that Everton are second best, and Moyes disappears down the tunnel before his players, his face an intense mixture of frustration and fury.
- A television camera followed the Wales team from their changing room to the players' tunnel at the Millennium Stadium.
3A long, half-cylindrical enclosure used to protect plants, made of clear plastic stretched over hoops. （尤指用透明塑料所作的，套在箍圈外以保护植物的）套管 cover plants in rows with a cloche tunnel Example sentencesExamples - The extra support is necessary because tomatoes in the tunnels grow more vigorously than field-grown plants.
- The protecting tunnel is gone, though steel hoops remain.
- He said over the past two years he had been commercially growing bedding plants in tunnels in his garden.
- Where hard freezes are frequent, the plants need the protection of a plastic tunnel.
- Today Palomino grapes are frequently dried to raisins under plastic tunnels, pressed, and fortified before fermentation to make a mistela.
- They can also be put into fruit cages after the fruit has been gathered and into greenhouses and tunnels in autumn to give the place a good going over before it is prepared for spring.
- Turn one of your beds into a hoop tunnel and sow peas, salad greens and spinach for next spring.
- Rows of bright green Swiss Chard lined the plastic tunnels.
- The row planted inside the tunnel is tall and vibrant.
- In the winter the tunnels are lined with plastic.
verbtunnels, tunnelled, tunnelling, tunneling, tunneledˈtʌn(ə)lˈtənl 1no object, with adverbial of direction Dig or force a passage underground or through something. 挖地道，打开通道 he tunnelled under the fence 他在篱笆下面挖了个地道。 the insect tunnels its way out of the plant 昆虫从植物中打洞钻了出来。 Example sentencesExamples - A tube approximately 24 inches in length is tunneled under the skin into the peritoneum.
- Mr Harris revealed that, despite the ban, he had been part of a group that continued tunnelling through an undiscovered route nicknamed George.
- Termites are usually happy to tunnel through a sand-filled tube, but when a layer of sand soaked in catnip oil is present it stops them dead in their tracks.
- Marauding badgers are again tunnelling under a pre-school.
- The snow was so thick, he was able to tunnel through it without it collapsing on him until he started clearing the hood.
- Ancient burial sites across Salisbury Plain could soon be fenced off to prevent badgers from tunnelling through the archaeology.
- In recent years, badgers have tunnelled into 52 ancient monuments on Salisbury Plain.
- Gophers tunnel through the ground to eat tender bulbs and shoots.
- Mr Hutton had suggested tunnelling through Bradford, but this would prove too costly, especially as Bradford Beck would have to be diverted.
- They look to tunnel through corporate networks through mass emails.
- If you tunnel underground and travel in a straight line, you cover less distance.
- He's got a nice big backyard to roam through, with ivy to tunnel through and a couple of dirt patches to dig in.
- The weevil's eggs are deposited inside the banana tissue and once hatched, they tunnel through the corm for feeding and growth.
- The machine for tunnelling the underground section will be imported from either Japan, Germany or the United Kingdom.
- These grubs create straight, narrow mines as they tunnel into the leaves, followed by larger, brown or yellow blisters as they grow and feed inside the foliage.
- Electric transport tunnelled underground as well as overground: the first ‘tube’ was built in London in 1887-90.
- Rescuers tunnelled into the wreckage taking great care to prevent further collapses.
- A week of tramping for miles underground and sleeping in limestone catacombs tunneled out by sulfuric acid is not everyone's idea of happy camping.
- The site is dangerous and our concern is that they are not experts in tunnelling and we are genuinely concerned about their safety.
- The catheter is tunneled under the skin and enters a large vein and then is threaded into the superior vena cava.
Synonyms dig, dig one's way, burrow excavate, mine, bore, drill 2Physics
no object (of a particle) pass through a potential barrier. 〔物理〕（粒子）穿透势垒，隧（道贯）穿 Example sentencesExamples - In rare cases where a quantum mechanical effect called tunneling occurs in the reaction, deuterium isotope effects of 20 or more have been observed.
- Eventually, quantum confinement effects and tunneling currents dominate the device design.
- In photon tunneling, the intensity of evanescent light is reduced when the lasing particle is approached by a non-lasing one.
- They are restricted to orbit given atoms, and they can only move from one to the other by quantum tunneling.
- By making the particles interact, they approximated quantum tunneling - a phenomenon forbidden by classical mechanics.
Derivativesnoun The work by specialist tunnellers, which will take nearly three months to complete, is part of a giant engineering jigsaw that Scottish Water says will bring Glasgow's water supply into the 21st century. Example sentencesExamples - Room after room of the city's buildings had holes hacked through the walls by tunnellers.
- Underground worker Roger Barron, 53, revealed that some coalface workers and tunnellers were earning up to £1,000 a week before Wistow closed.
OriginLate Middle English (in the senses 'tunnel-shaped net' and 'flue of a chimney'): from Old French tonel, diminutive of tonne 'cask'. sense 1 of the noun dates from the mid 18th century. RhymesChunnel, funnel, gunnel, gunwale, runnel Definition of tunnel in US English: tunnelnounˈtənlˈtənl 1An artificial underground passage, especially one built through a hill or under a building, road, or river. 人工地下通道（尤指隧道、地道、坑道） Example sentencesExamples - A tunnel closed and the road was down to two lanes.
- I hope the tunnels and more roads will change the situation so I can have a car soon.
- The winning consortium is likely also to take over the running of the Dartford tunnel and road bridge that carries the M25 over the Thames east of London.
- The Limerick South Ring Road, including the tunnel, will allow traffic to bypass Limerick city by linking the Docks Road with the Ennis Road.
- A Swindon engineering company is taking a lead role in the design of a road tunnel beneath 5,000-year-old Stonehenge.
- A tunnel has been built leading to the new underground ‘bat hotel’, which has tiered accommodation from which bats can hang.
- We have a toll road here that goes through a tunnel under the river.
- They are building a road tunnel through the area.
- There are deep gashes in the roads; some are still blocked by landslides and a major road tunnel to the town has collapsed.
- Detective Constable Ian Thornton and PC Kim Wandless tracked Wood down to a tunnel under King's Road and he was arrested.
- He conceded, however, that the toll might cause people to avoid the tunnel and use local roads instead.
- As I went into the tunnel at Finchley Road I switched off all the interior lights.
- A bank of trees here or a cycleway there makes no odds if you're building two major new roads and a massive tunnel.
- The Faroese also boast some spectacular road tunnels, but they're not so excited about these feats of engineering that they feel obliged to name them after people.
- Drivers must now call the police immediately if their vehicles break down on elevated roads, tunnels and bridges across the Huangpu River.
- New roads and tunnels have been built and public transport modernised.
- Norway is home to the longest and the deepest road tunnels in the world.
- Authorities abroad are increasingly opting for road tunnels.
- Whilst Alpine road and rail tunnels and the Channel tunnel have made travel between some of Europe's nations easier, physical and cultural barriers remain.
- Local villagers cut a tunnel road through the mountain and named it Guoliang Cave.
Synonyms underground passage, subterranean passage - 1.1 An underground passage dug by a burrowing animal.
（动物）洞穴通道 Example sentencesExamples - It is not known if all the burrow nesting species excavate the tunnels or if some use tunnels dug by rodents or other animals.
- They line the burrow tunnel with pebbles and shell fragments.
- Small mounds are created when moles burrow deep or tunnel under solid objects such as tree roots or sidewalks.
- Their burrows were normally underground, in long tunnels.
- It burrows a tunnel far into a sandy bank on the riverside and dwells therein, safe from cold, wind, rain and creatures that would devour it.
- Many fungi are found in soil and often fostered by small ground animals and their feces-filled tunnels.
- Animal tunnels incorporated into the design will also allow local wildlife to cross.
- Burrow tunnels were examined each day; in 1999, younger nestlings left the supplements uneaten.
- 1.2in singular A passage in a sports stadium by which players enter or leave the field.
运动场运动员通道 Example sentencesExamples - By half-time it is clear that Everton are second best, and Moyes disappears down the tunnel before his players, his face an intense mixture of frustration and fury.
- A television camera followed the Wales team from their changing room to the players' tunnel at the Millennium Stadium.
- Wenger claimed he didn't see the scuffles between opposing players and coaches in the stadium tunnel after the match.
- In Frankfurt the players are in the tunnel.
- That incident briefly flared up again as the players entered the tunnel after the game.
- At 3: 25, Lynch leads the rest of the defensive backs out of the tunnel and onto the field for pre-game warm-ups.
- Both sets of mascots click-clack out of the tunnel holding their players by the hands and then line up.
- One of the Turkey players stood in the tunnel and, gesturing to me, ran his fingers across his throat as if he wanted to cut it.
verbˈtənlˈtənl 1no object, with adverbial of direction Dig or force a passage underground or through something. 挖地道，打开通道 he tunneled under the fence 他在篱笆下面挖了个地道。 the insect tunnels its way out of the plant 昆虫从植物中打洞钻了出来。 Example sentencesExamples - A tube approximately 24 inches in length is tunneled under the skin into the peritoneum.
- The weevil's eggs are deposited inside the banana tissue and once hatched, they tunnel through the corm for feeding and growth.
- The snow was so thick, he was able to tunnel through it without it collapsing on him until he started clearing the hood.
- If you tunnel underground and travel in a straight line, you cover less distance.
- Rescuers tunnelled into the wreckage taking great care to prevent further collapses.
- They look to tunnel through corporate networks through mass emails.
- The catheter is tunneled under the skin and enters a large vein and then is threaded into the superior vena cava.
- These grubs create straight, narrow mines as they tunnel into the leaves, followed by larger, brown or yellow blisters as they grow and feed inside the foliage.
- Ancient burial sites across Salisbury Plain could soon be fenced off to prevent badgers from tunnelling through the archaeology.
- He's got a nice big backyard to roam through, with ivy to tunnel through and a couple of dirt patches to dig in.
- Mr Hutton had suggested tunnelling through Bradford, but this would prove too costly, especially as Bradford Beck would have to be diverted.
- In recent years, badgers have tunnelled into 52 ancient monuments on Salisbury Plain.
- Electric transport tunnelled underground as well as overground: the first ‘tube’ was built in London in 1887-90.
- Gophers tunnel through the ground to eat tender bulbs and shoots.
- The machine for tunnelling the underground section will be imported from either Japan, Germany or the United Kingdom.
- A week of tramping for miles underground and sleeping in limestone catacombs tunneled out by sulfuric acid is not everyone's idea of happy camping.
- Marauding badgers are again tunnelling under a pre-school.
- The site is dangerous and our concern is that they are not experts in tunnelling and we are genuinely concerned about their safety.
- Mr Harris revealed that, despite the ban, he had been part of a group that continued tunnelling through an undiscovered route nicknamed George.
- Termites are usually happy to tunnel through a sand-filled tube, but when a layer of sand soaked in catnip oil is present it stops them dead in their tracks.
Synonyms dig, dig one's way, burrow 2Physics
no object (of a particle) pass through a potential barrier. 〔物理〕（粒子）穿透势垒，隧（道贯）穿 Example sentencesExamples - In photon tunneling, the intensity of evanescent light is reduced when the lasing particle is approached by a non-lasing one.
- In rare cases where a quantum mechanical effect called tunneling occurs in the reaction, deuterium isotope effects of 20 or more have been observed.
- They are restricted to orbit given atoms, and they can only move from one to the other by quantum tunneling.
- By making the particles interact, they approximated quantum tunneling - a phenomenon forbidden by classical mechanics.
- Eventually, quantum confinement effects and tunneling currents dominate the device design.
OriginLate Middle English (in the senses ‘tunnel-shaped net’ and ‘flue of a chimney’): from Old French tonel, diminutive of tonne ‘cask’. tunnel (sense 1 of the noun) dates from the mid 18th century. |