plumb
verb/plʌm/
/plʌm/
(literary)Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they plumb | /plʌm/ /plʌm/ |
| he / she / it plumbs | /plʌmz/ /plʌmz/ |
| past simple plumbed | /plʌmd/ /plʌmd/ |
| past participle plumbed | /plʌmd/ /plʌmd/ |
| -ing form plumbing | /ˈplʌmɪŋ/ /ˈplʌmɪŋ/ |
- plumb something to try to understand or succeed in understanding something mysterious
探索；钻研；探究 - She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche.
她毕生探索人类心灵的奥秘。 - He had clearly plumbed the general sense of the message.
他清楚地了解了该信息的总体含义。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPlumb is used with these nouns as the object:- depth
Word Originverb Middle English (originally in the sense ‘sounding lead’): via Old French from Latin plumbum ‘lead’. plumb something in. late 19th cent.: back-formation from plumber. - She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche.
Idioms
plumb the depths of something
- to be or to experience an extreme example of something unpleasant
陷入（痛苦等的）深渊；深入…深处 - His latest novel plumbs the depths of horror and violence.
他最新的小说充斥着极端恐怖和暴力。 - It was at that stage in her life when she plumbed the depths of despair.
正是在这个阶段，她陷入了绝望的深渊。 - The team's poor performances plumbed new depths last night when they lost 10–2.
昨晚这个队的糟糕表现达到了新低纪录，以 2:10 输掉了。 - The story plumbed the depths of tabloid journalism.
这个故事完全迎合了小报的低级趣味。
- His latest novel plumbs the depths of horror and violence.