unearthed

基本解释

Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed.
有些器皿在出土時已經殘破。
《新英漢大辤典》
Researchers have unearthed the remains of about six camps, including fragments of stone tools and food, in an area near the town of Kokoda, said an archaeologist on the team, Andrew Fairbairn.
研究者在科科達附近的小鎮發掘出了六個原始棚戶居所的遺跡，包括石器工具的殘片和一些食物，小組成員安德魯菲爾貝恩透露。
He thinks that the stargate may have already been unearthed, but cannot be used because it probably takes about five years of consciousness expansion training before someone can walk through the gate.
他認爲星際之門已經被發掘出來了，但是還不能使用，因爲一個人在通過這個門之前需要大約五年時間的意識拓展訓練。
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That is, until the great archaeological discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which unearthed for us the great civilizations of the Ancient Near East, of which I have drawn a remarkably life-like map ] here on the board: Mediterranean, I always start with the Mediterranean Ocean, the Nile River, the Tigris and the Euphrates.
直到十九至二十世紀,一些重大的考古發現，才讓我們了解到,遠古近東的文明,我已經在黑板上畫了一幅,栩栩如生的地圖了：,地中海，我縂是從地中海講起，尼羅河，底格裡斯河，還有幼發拉底河。
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Rob Ford had a different term for the media that has unearthed one scandal after another.
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Example: Five years ago Baldt's crew unearthed some little-known Westmoreland County, Pa. sewer bonds.
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If someone unearths facts or evidence, they discover them with difficulty.
If someone unearths something that is buried, they find it by digging in the ground.
If you say that someone has unearthed something, you mean that they have found it after it had been hidden or lost for some time.