掘

• Root systems have had to be excavated without the aid of water .
  根系必须在不用水的情况下掘取。
• They cut straight downwards through the hard, brush covered crust .
  他们穿透长着灌木的坚实的硬土一直向下掘。
• His clothes, ill-made and shabby, were put on untidily .
  他的衣服做工掘劣，再加上又很破旧，穿在身上邋里邋遢的。
• The chances are all against his ever having another opportunity to cut a ditch .
  他便绝对没有希望再得到掘沟的机会了。
• They proceeded at once to extract the interior mould, clearing out the boring of the piece .
  他们立时动手掘砂模，掏清炮筒。
• They are digging their own graves , and they have no right to blame fate or other people .
  自家掘坑自家埋，怨天尤人全是错误的。
• The man in the absolute shade uncrossed his legs and dug with toes at the earth .
  树干的浓阴里那个人把交叉的双腿放开，用脚趾掘着泥土。
• At every two feet which the hole gained in depth they successively withdrew the blocks .
  每次掘到二英尺深，他们就陆陆续续地把支架抽出来。
• At the end of the first month the well had attained the depth specified, 122 feet .
  一个月过去了，在这一段时间里，井已经掘了一百二十二英尺深。
• Safety is always the first consideration in tunnelling and speed of advance is the second .
  在掘进中，安全总是应该首先考虑的问题，掘进速度则放在第二位。