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VERB
探索；探究
If you plumb something mysterious or difficult to understand, you succeed in understanding it.
例句
She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions...
她從未放棄過探究我內心深處情感的嘗試。
Magda had plumbed her own heart for answers.
瑪格達在自己心中搜尋答案。
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ADV
恰恰；正好
If something is plumb in a particular place, it is exactly in that place.
例句
The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street...
賓館正好坐落在商街的中段。
Grenville took another wallop plumb on the jaw.
格倫維爾又受了一拳，正中下巴。
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VERB
為（建筑物）敷設水管
When someone plumbs a building, they put in all the pipes for carrying water.
例句
She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.
她學會了自己給房子拉接電線、敷設水管。
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ADV
完全地；不折不扣地
Plumb is used to give emphasis to an adjective or verb that describes a feeling or condition.
例句
I find I'm plumb depressed by it...
我發現自己被它搞得沮喪透頂。
This thing has plumb worn me out.
這件事讓我筋疲力盡。
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PHRASE
經受極度的…；表現出極端的…
If someone plumbs the depths of an unpleasant emotion or quality, they experience it or show it to an extreme degree.
例句
They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair...
他們常常陷入孤獨、屈辱和絕望的深淵。
Is this the first of many questions that will plumb the depths of stupidity?
這個之后是不是還有眾多如此愚蠢透頂的問題？
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PHRASE
糟糕到新低點；降至最低點
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.
例句
Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths...
兩國關系已降到了最低谷。
Last night's harrowing television pictures plumbed new depths of depravity.
昨晚觸目驚心的電視畫面墮落到了新低。