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underground

/adverb, uhn-der-ground; adjective, noun, verb uhn-der-ground/US // adverb, ˈʌn dərˈgraʊnd; adjective, noun, verb ˈʌn dərˌgraʊnd //

地下,在地下,地下的,在地下的

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adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : beneath the surface of the ground: traveling underground by subway.
    • : in concealment or secrecy; not openly: subversion carried on underground.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : existing, situated, operating, or taking place beneath the surface of the ground.
    • : used, or for use, underground.
    • : hidden or secret; not open: underground political activities.
    • : published or produced by political or social radicals or nonconformists: an underground newspaper.
    • : avant-garde; experimental: an underground movie.
    • : critical of or attacking the established society or system: underground opinion.
    • : of or for nonconformists; unusual: an underground vegetarian restaurant.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the place or region beneath the surface of the ground.
    • : an underground space or passage.
    • : a secret organization fighting the established government or occupation forces: He fought in the French underground during the Nazi occupation of France.
    • : a movement or group existing outside the establishment and usually reflecting unorthodox, avant-garde, or radical views.
    • : Chiefly British. a subway system.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to place beneath the surface of the ground: to underground utility lines.

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Examples

  • Italy may owe some of its seismic activity to carbon dioxide bubbling up from deep underground.

  • So the group of refuseniks — one of many underground cells plotting freedom — decided to hijack a plane.

  • Archaeologists had known since 1916 that some holes lurked underground.

  • Data from NASA’s Dawn orbiter, the study suggests, show signs that it may be harboring an ocean deep underground.

  • For example, the team found that a seismometer placed 380 meters underground near Auckland, New Zealand, was not only registering human activity, but saw that activity halved during the lockdowns.

  • But underground classes have Persians getting with the beat.

  • Atefeh says the participants in the underground classes she attends are mainly young women.

  • Youssef said the jailings are not only driving the community underground but pushing many to move abroad.

  • “He literally went underground to hold services,” Moscow-based dissident and journalist Victor Davidoff said in an email.

  • Unfortunately, the underground tunnels that were used to transport booze and, if necessary, escaping patrons, are off-limits.

  • All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.

  • One thing was certain: Grandfather Mole could travel much faster through the water than he could underground.

  • And when he took an underground stroll he was almost sure to find a few angleworms, which furnished most of his meals.

  • When a besieged city suspects a mine, do not the inhabitants dig underground, and meet their enemy at his work?

  • There was a look in his eyes almost as of one coming back from a long and dark journey underground into the light of day.