delve

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pit or den. archaic,literary
    — the wise Merlin whylome wont (they say) / To make his wonne, low vnderneath the ground, / In a deepe delue, farre from the vew of day [...].
动词 v.
  1. To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel. intransitive,literary
    — Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.
  2. To dig; to excavate. ambitransitive,literary
    — And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory […]
  3. To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out ambitransitive,figuratively,literary
    — I cannot delve him to the root.

词形变化

delves present,singular,third-person delving participle,present delved past dolve obsolete,past delved participle,past dolve obsolete,participle,past dolven archaic,participle,past delves plural

词汇关系

衍生词
delver indelve undelve undelved
相关词
dolven

词源

词源 1
From Middle English delven, from Old English delfan (“to dig, dig out, burrow, bury”), from Proto-Germanic *delbaną (“to dig”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelbʰ- (“to dig”). Cognate with West Frisian dolle (“to dig, delve”), Dutch delven (“to dig, delve”), Low German dölven (“to dig, delve”), dialectal German delben, telben (“to dig, delve”).
词源 2
From Middle English delve, delf, dælf, from Old English delf, ġedelf (“digging”) and dælf (“that which is dug out, delf, ditch”). More at delf.
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