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drilled

/dril/US // drɪl //UK // (drɪl) //

钻孔的,钻探过的,钻井的,钻探

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n.名词 noun
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    • : Machinery, Building Trades. a shaftlike tool with two or more cutting edges for making holes in firm materials, especially by rotation.a tool, especially a hand tool, for holding and operating such a tool.
    • : Military. training in formal marching or other precise military or naval movements.an exercise in such training: gun drill.
    • : any strict, methodical, repetitive, or mechanical training, instruction, or exercise: a spelling drill.
    • : the correct or customary manner of proceeding.
    • : Also called snail bore [sneyl-bawr] /ˈsneɪl ˌbɔr/ . a gastropod, Urosalpinx cinera, that bores holes in shellfish, as oysters.
v.有主动词 verb
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    • : to pierce or bore a hole in.
    • : to make by boring.
    • : Military. to instruct and exercise in formation marching and movement, in the carrying of arms during formal marching, and in the formal handling of arms for ceremonies and guard duty.
    • : to impart by strict training, discipline, or repetition.
    • : to train or rehearse in a subject, discipline, etc., by guided repetition, quizzing, and other techniques.
v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to pierce or bore something with or as with a drill.
    • : to penetrate deeply beneath the ground or the sea floor with specialized machinery to search for deposits or reservoirs of a natural substance:to drill for oil.
    • : to go through exercise in military or other training.
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    • : drill down, Computers.to move through a hierarchical system in order to view data at a lower level, as to find a specific file or database record.to access and examine something more thoroughly or in more detail:Now that you have the big picture, let’s drill down to some technical facts and statistics.

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Examples

  • The link is about as thick as the human skull, and Musk said it could plop neatly onto the surface of the brain through a drill hole that could then be sealed with superglue.

  • Collen gave Laney the green light after seeing her dominate early shooting drills in practice.

  • During several trips to Greenland, he and NASA researchers tested a drill that can cut through hundreds of feet of ice, measuring organic matter and other “biosignatures” as it goes down.

  • In 2017 and 2019, we went to the Greenland ice sheet to test a drill you could take to Europa.

  • Coaches can create drills to help players focus on those shots.

  • Prince may have pranced around like a carefree libertine onstage, but in rehearsal he was more drill sergeant than sprite.

  • As I forced my exhausted body to exercise, I yelled at my legs like a drill sergeant, demanding five more minutes or one more set.

  • For example, studies cited in the report have shown a higher incidence of birth defects for people living near drill sites.

  • In place of horses, underclassmen would pull the field pieces around the drill ground.

  • And as it turns out, those adorable pink drill bits are potentially facilitating the addition of carcinogens into the environment.

  • His drill-like nose, his powerful fore-legs and big, strong feet all served to make him the fastest digger in Pleasant Valley.

  • A minikin three-and-a-half-feet Colonel, being one day at the drill, was examining a strapper of six feet four.

  • She rode the drill every day, like any soldier; and she could take the bugle and direct the evolutions herself.

  • They were learning how to drill, how to fire, how to dig ditches and build impromptu forts in haste.

  • It was explained that great difficulty frequently exists in getting firemen to take part in a boat drill.