plumb
plumb 英 [plʌm] 美 [plʌm]
vt. 探索；钻研 adv. 恰恰，正好；垂直地
进行时:plumbing 过去式:plumbed 过去分词:plumbed 第三人称单数:plumbs 名词复数:plumbs
- To plumb a body of water, you measure its depth. To plumb a house, you connect all of its pipes. To make carpentry plumb, you get it exactly vertical.
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- vt. 探索；钻研
- adv. 恰恰，正好；垂直地
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1. She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche.
她毕生探索人类心灵的奥秘。
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2. No one could plumb the mystery.
没人能看破这秘密。
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3. His latest novel plumbs the depths of horror and violence.
他的最新小说简直是充斥着极端恐怖和暴力的代表作。
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4. He was standing plumb in the middle of the road.
他站在路正中间。
- plumb (adj.) "perpendicular, vertical," mid-15c., from plumb (n.). The notion of "exact measurement" led to extended sense of "completely, downright" (1748), sometimes spelled plump, plum, or plunk.
- plumb (n.) "lead hung on a string to show the vertical line," early 14c., from Old French *plombe, plomee "sounding lead," and directly from Late Latin *plumba, originally plural of Latin plumbum "lead (the metal), lead ball; pipe; pencil," a word of unknown origin, related to Greek molybdos "lead" (dialectal bolimos) and perhaps from an extinct Mediterranean language, perhaps Iberian.
- plumb (v.) early 15c., "to sink" (like lead), from plumb (n.). Meaning "take soundings with a plumb" is first recorded 1560s; figurative sense of "to get to the bottom of" is from 1590s. Related: Plumbed; plumbing.
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