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backhoe

/bak-hoh/US // ˈbækˌhoʊ //

挖掘机,挖土机,锄头,铲车

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a hydraulic excavating machine consisting of a tractor having an attached hinged boom, with a bucket with movable jaws on the end of the boom.

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Examples

  • As the backhoe dug deeper, wood fragments, glass, pottery shards and artifacts came to the surface.

  • A backhoe removed soil layer by layer, inches at a time, as archaeologists watched carefully for subtle changes in soil color and texture, and for any hint of a burial.

  • The backhoe returned and began to scrape away at the soil layers.

  • During an archaeological excavation, the goal is to stop the backhoe before it hits a burial, so the archaeologists look for other clues that remains might be present.

  • As backhoes and tug boats worked around the Panama-flagged Ever Given’s 400-meter-long hull on Thursday evening, experts began to tot up the economic and environmental ramifications of a protracted obstruction.

  • Sen. Robert F. Kennedy looked on as Pollard began to disinter the president with the backhoe.

  • First they set fire to a backhoe and a car, burning them to shells.

  • Leon drove the van down a dirt trail and stopped near the backhoe, which had finished its digging and was now just waiting.

  • Behind the church there was a cemetery, and at the far end of it a backhoe had just begun digging the grave.