- 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.
plumb / plʌm ; NAmE plʌm / verb , adverb plumb plumbs plumbed plumbing verb plumbsth ( literary) to try to understand or succeed in understanding sth mysterious 探索；钻研；探究 SYN fathom ◆ She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche. 她毕生探索人类心灵的奥秘。 IDIOM plumb the depths of sth to be or to experience an extreme example of sth unpleasant 陷入（痛苦等的）深渊；深入…深处 ◆ 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。 ◆ The team's poor performances plumbed new depthslast 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。 PHRASAL VERB ˌplumb sth↔ˈin ( especially BrE) to connect a washing machine,toilet, etc. to the water supply in a building 把（洗衣机、马桶等）与水管连接 adverb 1 ( used before prepositions 用于介词前 ) exactly 恰恰；正好 ◆ He was standing plumb in the middle of the road. 他站在路正中间。 2 ( old-fashioned) ( NAmE informal) completely 完全；彻底 ◆ He's plumb crazy. 他彻底疯了。 plumb / plʌm ; NAmE plʌm /
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