excavated

英 [ˈekskəveɪtɪd]

美 [ˈekskəveɪtɪd]

v.  发掘，挖出(古建筑或古物); 挖掘，开凿，挖空(洞、隧道等)
excavate的过去分词和过去式

过去分词：excavated　过去式：excavated　

BNC.26725 / COCA.25151

柯林斯词典

• VERB 发掘，挖掘（古物等）
  When archaeologists or other peopleexcavatea piece of land, they remove earth carefully from it and look for things such as pots, bones, or buildings which are buried there, in order to discover information about the past.
  1. A new Danish expedition is again excavating the site in annual summer digs.
     一支新的丹麦探险队又在那个遗址上进行一年一度的夏季挖掘。
• VERB 挖;开凿
  Toexcavatemeans to dig a hole in the ground, for example in order to build there.
  1. A contractor was hired to drain the reservoir and to excavate soil from one area for replacement with clay.
     雇了一个承包商抽干水库的水，挖掉一个区域的泥土后再用黏土填上。

双语例句

• They excavated an ancient buried city.
  他们发掘出一座埋在地下的古城。
• He excavated at many sites in Kenya and tanzania.
  他曾在肯尼亚与坦桑尼亚的多处遗址进行过挖掘。
• It is also among the earliest excavated Chinese grottoes.
  它是我国早期开凿的石窟之一。
• They've excavated a hole in the road.
  他们在路上掘了个洞。
• During the period of meteorite hitting the terrane, the phase that meteorite strike excavated the terrane also started.
  在陨石向岩层的撞击仍在持续的时候陨击过程开掘岩层的阶段也开始了。
• Most of the bones are still embedded in the rock, and must be painstakingly excavated.
  大多数骨头仍嵌入在岩石里，把它们挖出来真是煞费苦心。
• Three dinosaurs have already been found on the excavated site.
  在发掘地点已发现3只恐龙。
• Shanxi has an extremely large number of excavated tombs and neolithic sites.
  山西发掘出不计其数的坟墓和新石器遗址。
• A ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth.
  挖掘的土地上有低墙的作为防御工事的沟渠。
• The pots were discovered in a tomb being excavated to make way for an extension to the local airport.
  在修建一条通往当地机场的道路时，在挖出的古墓里发现了这个容器。