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单词 to plumb the depths
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to plumb the depths
b. transitive. figurative. To get to the bottom of, to think about or examine in depth; to explore or experience the emotional depths or lowest points of. Esp. in to plumb the depths and variants.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > try, test [verb (transitive)]
cuneOE
afondOE
found1340
searcha1382
experiment1481
experience1541
probe1542
try1545
invent1548
sound1589
to bring or put to the test1594
plumb1599
to feel out1600
essay1656
test1748
plumb-line1875
to try out1888
the world > space > relative position > low position > be low in position [verb (intransitive)] > reach the bottom
plumb1599
bottom1808
1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered xii. 40 Though Plato and Hermes haue plumbd it deeply, must wee reach no further, then their shallow sounding?
1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 30 [They] may find out many monstrosities in their brain, whilst they are subtilly plumming the depth of their self-admired understanding.
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) 279 The notorious Practices of the Party, especially at the Oxford Parliament, of which I shall endeavour to plumb the depths.
1846 E. Bulwer-Lytton Lucretia I. i. ii. 113 All unconsciously he began to lay bare to his listener the infirmities of his erring, open heart. Silently she looked down, and plumbed them all.
1858 A. H. Clough Amours de Voyage in Atlantic Monthly May 789 So plumb I the deeps of depression.
1919 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Consequences i. xiii. 148 It seemed to her that Noel's farewell had plumbed the final depth of his inadequacy.
1951 H. Thurman Deep is Hunger i. 22 Even when we have done our best thinking.., plumbed the depths of our innermost cumulative experience of living, we may arrive at a point less than the right.
1996 Time Out N.Y. 4 Sept. 12/1 Pacino's attempt to plumb the twisted psyche of Richard III.
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