dig up

英 [dɪɡ ʌp]

美 [dɪɡ ʌp]

挖出; 掘起; 掘地; 挖洞; 发现，查明（信息或事实）

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 挖出;掘起
  If youdig upsomething, you remove it from the ground where it has been buried or planted.
  1. You would have to dig up the plant yourself...
     你得自己把那株植物挖出来。
  2. More bodies have been dug up at the site...
     在那个地点又挖掘出几具尸体。
  3. Dig it up once the foliage has died down.
     叶子掉光后就把它挖出来。
• PHRASAL VERB 掘地;挖洞
  If youdig upan area of land, you dig holes in it.
  1. Yesterday they continued the search, digging up the back yard of a police station.
     昨天他们继续搜寻，在一座警察局的后院里挖掘寻找。
• PHRASAL VERB 发现，查明(信息或事实)
  If youdig upinformation or facts, you discover something that has not previously been widely known.
  1. Managers are too expensive and important to spend time digging up market information...
     经理的薪金过高，职责太过重大，不能将时间浪费在挖掘市场信息上。
  2. His description fits perfectly the evidence dug up by Clyde.
     他的描述和克莱德发现的证据正好吻合。
• PHRASAL VERB 发掘;发现并利用
  If youdig upsomething or someone, you find them and use or employ them.
  1. When something happens anywhere in the world, NPR digs up an expert from someplace or other...
     世界上任何一个角落一有新闻发生，全国公共广播电台就会不知从什么地方挖个专家出来。
  2. If you dug up an old medical book from the sixties, it would tell you that childhood leukemia is incurable.
     如果找一本 20 世纪 60 年代的旧医学书出来的话，它会告诉你儿童白血病是不治之症。

英英释义

verb

• find by digging in the ground
  1. I dug up an old box in the garden
  Synonym:excavateturn up
• remove, harvest, or recover by digging
  1. dig salt
  2. dig coal
  Synonym:digdig out

双语例句

• The jeweler was able to dig up the ring we wanted.
  宝石匠能发掘出我们想要的戒指。
• When you're weeding, you must dig up the roots.
  斩草必须除根。
• Collect and dig up information from customer, including spare parts and service requirements, budget, etc.
  收集和发掘客户各方面的信息，包括各类服务和备件需求，预算等。
• We could go down and just dig up a corner.
  我们可以下去然后再挖个坑。
• What did you dig up on Mr.X?
  你挖到了神秘先生的什么消息？
• And it helped the villagers dig up soil and govern the river.
  然后帮助村民挖土壤和治理这条河。
• Public utilities dig up roads to lay pipes.
  公共事业公司挖路铺设管道。
• They live on grasslands where they can easily dig up ants, grubs, and worms.
  他们生活在草原上，在那儿可以很轻易的挖掘到蚂蚁、蛆和其它蠕虫。
• And because people cut down trees and dig up grass.
  和人们砍伐树木以及破坏草场。
• If you let your dog dig up my flower bed again, I'll have the law on you.
  如果你再让你的狗挖掉我的花坛，我将去请警察了。