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aboveground

/uh-buhv-ground/US // əˈbʌvˌgraʊnd //

地上,地面上,地面,地面上的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : situated on or above the ground.
    • : not secret or hidden; in the open: the aboveground activities of the country's left-wing faction.

Examples

  • In Ideal and much of South Dallas, power and other utility lines are largely aboveground, suspended along and across streets on giant poles.

  • Some naked mole-rats are specially equipped with abundant fat reserves that allow them to journey long distances aboveground.

  • Gone are striking curved roofs, with both aboveground stations now having flat photovoltaic canopies to help charge the Tesla vehicles.

  • That CO2 rises, gathers in pressurized pockets in Earth’s crust and seeps into groundwater that feeds springs aboveground.

  • It is one of the richest areas for aboveground dinosaur tracks in Europe.

  • The body lay in an aboveground marble sarcophagus guarded by no groundskeepers or watchmen, just one lonely padlock.

  • Winning the War of Independence, the Israelis were free to manufacture weapons aboveground.

  • The mod-looking bright red capsule, called Skyride, hangs from a 12-foot-tall circular aboveground track.

  • The noose around his neck is attached, aboveground, to a flying white bat.

  • "A frightful blood-bath," by all the Accounts: blood-bath, brandy-bath, and chief Nucleus of Chaos then extant aboveground.

  • These sheets should be used in an upright position, and at least five feet should be underground and seven feet aboveground.

  • Each side measures sixteen feet in length, extending four feet underground and four feet aboveground.

  • In the month of February it is pruned and sunk into the earth, as already described, so as to leave only the new wood aboveground.

  • No less than 60,000 was spent upon them and the castellated structure aboveground.