unearthing

英 [ʌnˈɜːθɪŋ]

美 [ʌnˈɜːrθɪŋ]

v.  挖掘; 发掘; 使出土; (偶然或经搜寻)发现，找到
unearth的现在分词

COCA.42676

柯林斯词典

• VERB 发现；揭露
  If someoneunearthsfacts or evidence about something bad, they discover them with difficulty, usually because they were being kept secret or were being lied about.
  1. Researchers have unearthed documents indicating her responsibility for the forced adoption of children...
     调查人员已经发现了证明她对强制收养儿童事件负有责任的文件。
  2. The frauds have been unearthed by investigators working for the Camden and Islington Health Authority.
     这些欺诈行为已被卡姆登和伊斯灵顿卫生局的调查人员揭露了出来。
  3. ...the unearthing of a plot to assassinate the President.
     行刺总统的阴谋的曝光
• VERB 发掘，挖掘（埋藏物）
  If someoneunearthssomething that is buried, they find it by digging in the ground.
  1. Fossil hunters have unearthed the bones of an elephant believed to be 500,000 years old.
     化石搜集者们发掘出了一具大象骨骼，据信距今已有50万年。
  2. ...saying that the treasure had been unearthed on his property...
     称宝藏是在他家地里挖掘出来的
  3. More human remains have been unearthed in the north.
     北部又挖掘出了更多的人体遗骸。
• VERB 找到，发现（隐藏或丢失之物）
  If you say that someonehas unearthedsomething, you mean that they have found it after it had been hidden or lost for some time.
  1. From somewhere, he had unearthed a black silk suit...
     他不知从哪里找来了一套黑色的丝绸衣服。
  2. Today I unearthed a copy of '90 Minutes' and had a chuckle at your article.
     今天我找到了一期《90分钟》杂志，读了你的文章咯咯笑了半天。
  3. ...his reputation for unearthing talent from the most unlikely sources.
     他能从最不可能的地方发现人才的名声

双语例句

• Respondents said the person they most dread unearthing one of the skeletons in their closet is their partner, though a quarter believed their other half would support them if they did find out.
  调查对象说他们最害怕自己的伴侣发现自己不可告人的秘密，而有四分之一的人认为即使另一半发现了自己的秘密还是会支持自己。
• Mostly, the former aims at unearthing the meaning of Existentialism, Feminism and old or new Historicism.
  前者主要解读文本所显示的存在主义、女权主义以及新旧历史主义等主题意义。
• The Prime Minister was, with his habitual energy and in spite of the serious threat to his health, devoting himself intensively to the task of unearthing every possible resource.
  首相虽然尚未康复，但他有好动的习惯，故仍致力于发掘每一个可能的办法。
• Unearthing tidbits often involves some complexity, however, like discovering that you can have your way with HashMap, just as long as you never use a mutable object type as its key.
  但是发掘这些有用之物可能有点复杂，比如只要您不将可变对象类型作为键，您就可以用自己的方式使用HashMap。
• Museum's sustainable development should be boosted through unearthing its scientific connotation and scientific education function, introducing joined exhibitions, improving the quality of its staff, and changing administrative modes.
  自然科学博物馆的发展，一方面应立足于自然科学博物馆的科普教育功能，充分发掘其科学文化内涵，另一方面应通过引进联展、提高人员素质、改变管理模式等方式来促进博物馆的可持续发展。
• The third part introduces the unearthing process and findings of LIU Liu-yi Tomb in Chengdu, and gives integral analysis for them.
  第三部分，介绍了成都出土的刘六一墓的出土情况，并做了整体上的分析。
• This thesis is working on the direction of unearthing these signs and their deeper reasons, discovering the possible influences to the literature and non-literature field, and reappraising the value and the limitations of aestheticism on its basis.
  呈现这些征象、挖掘其深层原因、指出其对文学或非文学领域的可能性影响，并在此基础上重新评价唯美主义的价值意义及局限正是本文努力的方向。
• You can continue on this track, however, only as long as you're unearthing genuinely new information.
  你能继续踌躇下去，不过此时你必须一直处于发现真正新信息的阶段。
• Part two: the situation of bronze weapon unearthing and Analysis on typical ruins.
  第二部分：铜兵器出土情况和典型遗址分析。
• He forms a set of narration which opposes May 4th movement and left wing narrations, through unearthing "decadence".
  他通过发掘颓废，形成了一套与五四和左翼对立的叙事。