美 [ˈekskəveɪtɪŋ]
v. 挖掘（excavate 的现在分词）
excavate /ˈɛkskəˌveɪt/ TEM8 [ excavating excavated excavates ]
及物动词 When archaeologists or other people excavate a piece of land, they remove earth carefully from it and look for things such as pots, bones, or buildings that are buried there, in order to discover information about the past. 挖掘 (古物)
A new Danish expedition is again excavating the site in annual summer digs.
一支新的丹麦考察队又在对那个地方进行年度的夏季挖掘。
有变体名词 挖掘
She worked on the excavation of a Mayan archaeological site.
她那时从事一个玛雅考古遗址的挖掘工作。
及物动词 To excavate means to dig a hole in the ground, for example, in order to build there. 挖; 开凿
A contractor was hired to drain the reservoir and to excavate soil from one area for replacement with clay.
一个承包商被雇来排干蓄水池里的水，然后挖出其中一块地方的泥土，换上粘土。
有变体名词 挖; 开凿
...the excavation of canals.
…运河的开凿。
form by hollowing
Carnegie had a lake excavated for Princeton University's rowing team ; excavate a cavity
挖掘（excavate的现在分词）
挖掘的
We are excavating near the lecture hall to see what types of artifacts we find—things people used in the past that got buried when the campus was constructed.
我们在演讲大厅附近挖掘，看看能发现什么类型的手工艺品——就是人们之前用过的，在建造校园时被埋掉的东西。
He then proceeded to teach himself geology, and when he was twenty-four, he went to work for the company that was excavating the Somerset Coal Canal in the south of England.
后来，他又自学了地质学；24岁的时候，他开始为那家挖掘英格兰南部的萨默塞特煤炭运河的公司工作。
That twenty-one ceramic dog figurines were discovered during the excavating of a 1,000-year-old Hohokam village in Tempe, Arizona, has nearly doubled the number of these artifacts known to exist.
在对亚利桑那州坦佩的霍霍坎村进行挖掘时，发现了21件陶制狗像，这使得已知的狗像数量增加了近一倍。
Excavating graves with diggers is not the best way to preserve bodies or collate evidence.
They are continuing to pump out water, excavating the blockages and shoring up the tunnels.
We believe that SnapLogic will help free them up from the drudgery of excavating information from the company.