delve
/delv/verb
no obj.
1- reach inside a receptacle and search for something探索（某物）, 掏挖：
she delved in her pocket.
她在口袋中掏东西。
1.1
- research or make painstaking enquiries into something探索, 钻研：
the society is determined to delve deeper into the matter.
学会决定进一步探讨研究此事。
1.2
- with obj. poetic/literary dig; excavate〈诗/文〉挖掘：
as adj. delved the approach from the surface above had awed her, so hugely delved were the tunnels.从地面而下的通道使她感到惊奇, 这些地道居然挖得如此之大。
派生词
delver
noun词源
Old English delfan 'dig'， of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch delven.