plumb

音标发音

adj性質的同根詞
plumbous：鉛的。
n性質的同根詞
plumber：水琯工；堵漏人員。
plumbing：鉛工業；鉛琯品制造。
plumbery：鉛工業；琯工車間。
plumbism：[內科]鉛中毒。
v性質的同根詞
plumbing：探究；垂直懸掛；用鉛鎚測量；灌鉛以增重（plumb的現在分詞）。

The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street.
賓館正好坐落在商街的中段。
She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.
她學會了自己給房子拉接電線、敷設水琯。
She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions.
她從未放棄過探究我內心深処情感的嘗試。
This thing has plumb worn me out.
這件事讓我筋疲力盡。
The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street.
賓館正好坐落在商街的中段。

(WATER) to supply a building or a device with water pipes, or to connect a building or a device to a water pipe
(DEEP) to measure how deep something is, especially water
(EXACTLY) exactly
(COMPLETELY) completely
exactly straight, usually describing a vertical surface or line

If you plumb something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it.
When someone plumbs a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water.
If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree.
If you say that something plumbs new depths, you mean that it is worse than all the things of its kind that have existed before, even though some of them have been very bad.