plumb

英 [plʌm] 美[plʌm]

vt. 使垂直；探测，探索
n. 垂直；铅锤
adv. 恰恰，正；垂直地
vi. 当管子工
adj. 垂直的
n. (Plumb)人名；(英)普拉姆

TOEFL GRE IELTS TEM8 常用词汇低频词

英英释义

1. the metal bob of a plumb line

同义词辨析

vertical, perpendicular, upright, erect, plumb

这些形容词均有"垂直的，竖式的"之意。

vertical：指与平面、水平线或基线成直角或几乎成直角向上延伸至顶点的物体。也可指呈直线上升或下降的。

perpendicular：指与水平线形成90度的线或面，或朝垂直方面延伸的，尤指向下的急剧运动。

upright：普通用词，指竖立、笔直而不是倾斜、倒塌的。

erect：指笔直挺拔，而非倾斜、佝偻、弯曲或倒塌的。

plumb：建筑上用词，凭锤球评判某物是否完全垂直。

词组搭配

out of plumb

not exactly vertical

不完全垂直的

the towers are inclined, from four to ten feet out of plumb.
那些塔是歪的，偏离垂直线4到10英尺。

考试真题

Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost £145,000-155,000— excluding building, plumbing and electrical work.

实用场景例句

She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche.: 她毕生探索人类心灵的奥秘。

His latest novel plumbs the depths of horror and violence.: 他的最新小说充斥着极端的恐怖和暴力。

The team's poor performances plumbed new depths last night when they lost 10-2.: 昨晚这个队的糟糕表现达到了新低纪录，以2:10输掉了。

He was standing plumb in the middle of the road.: 他站在路正中间。

He's plumb crazy.: 他彻底疯了。

She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions...: 她从未放弃过探究我内心深处情感的尝试。

Magda had plumbed her own heart for answers.: 玛格达在自己心中搜寻答案。

The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street...: 宾馆正好坐落在商街的中段。

Grenville took another wallop plumb on the jaw.: 格伦维尔又受了一拳，正中下巴。

She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.: 她学会了自己给房子拉接电线、敷设水管。

I find I'm plumb depressed by it...: 我发现自己被它搞得沮丧透顶。

This thing has plumb worn me out.: 这件事让我筋疲力尽。

They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair...: 他们常常陷入孤独、屈辱和绝望的深渊。

Is this the first of many questions that will plumb the depths of stupidity?: 这个之后是不是还有众多如此愚蠢透顶的问题？

Relations between the two countries have plumbed new depths...: 两国关系已降到了最低谷。

Last night's harrowing television pictures plumbed new depths of depravity.: 昨晚触目惊心的电视画面堕落到了新低。

No one could plumb the mystery.: 没人能看破这秘密.

Emit four vertical line and three horizontal line, plumb below point.: 可产生四条垂直线和三条水平线, 带下对点.

Charles & quot ; Chuck & quot ; Plumb was a U.S. Navy jet pilot in Vietnam.: 查尔斯. 恰克. 帕朗柏是越战中美国海军的一位喷射机驾驶员.

It was unprofitable to plumb that sort of thing.: 这种事弄个水落石出没有什么好处.

God will stretch measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of desolation.: 耶和华必将空虚的准绳,混沌的钱铊,拉在其上.

Bricklayers and carpenters often use plumb lines.: 瓦工和木工经常使用铅垂线.

What he said was plumb silly.: 他所说的真是愚蠢到了极点.

Is this wall plumb?: 这墙是垂直的吗 ?

I had a friend plumb his sink.: 我让一位朋友安装他的下水管道.

中文词源

plumb 铅，铅垂，使垂直，探索，钻研，恰好

来自拉丁语plumbum,铅，铅球，可能借自希腊语molybdos,铅，词源同molybdenum.后用于指测量垂直度的铅球，铅锤，引申词义探索，钻研，以及副词词义恰好，正好等。

助记提示

plumbum 铅。
plumb 铅锤,垂直的。
aplomb 沉着,泰然自若,垂直。
前缀a可以看作是加强语气,也可以看作'of,at,to' -plomb- = plumb 铅锤.

双语例句

1. The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street.: 宾馆正好坐落在商街的中段。

2. Please come and plumb in my new central heating system.: 请来帮我接通新的中央供暖系统的水管。

3. She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.: 她学会了自己给房子拉接电线、敷设水管。

4. She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions.: 她从未放弃过探究我内心深处情感的尝试。

5. They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair.: 他们常常陷入孤独、屈辱和绝望的深渊。

英文词源

plumb: plumb: [13] Plumb comes via Old French *plombe from Latin plumbum ‘lead’, a word of uncertain origin. Of its modern English uses, the verbal ‘sound the depths’ comes from the use of a line weighted with lead (a plumb line) to measure the depth of water and the adverbial ‘exactly’ from the use of a similar line to determine verticality. Related words in English include aplomb; plumber [14] (originally simply a ‘worker in lead’, but eventually, since water pipes were once made of lead, a ‘pipe-layer’); plummet [14] (a diminutive form coined in Old French); and plunge [14] (from the Vulgar Latin derivative *plumbicāre ‘sound with a plumb’).
=> aplomb, plumber, plummet, plunge
plumb (n.): "lead hung on a string to show the vertical line," early 14c., from Old French *plombe, plomee "sounding lead," and directly from Late Latin *plumba, originally plural of Latin plumbum "lead (the metal), lead ball; pipe; pencil," a word of unknown origin, related to Greek molybdos "lead" (dialectal bolimos) and perhaps from an extinct Mediterranean language, perhaps Iberian.
plumb (v.): early 15c., "to sink" (like lead), from plumb (n.). Meaning "take soundings with a plumb" is first recorded 1560s; figurative sense of "to get to the bottom of" is from 1590s. Related: Plumbed; plumbing.
plumb (adj.): "perpendicular, vertical," mid-15c., from plumb (n.). The notion of "exact measurement" led to extended sense of "completely, downright" (1748), sometimes spelled plump, plum, or plunk.

词态变化

第三人称单数: plumbs;过去式: plumbed;过去分词: plumbed;现在分词: plumbing;