英语词汇“tunnel”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	tunnel
释义	tun·nel I. \ˈtən^əl\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English tonel, from Middle French tonel, tonnel cask, tun, from Old French, from tonne tun, from Medieval Latin tunna, tonna barrel, tun, of Celtic origin; akin to Middle Irish tonn skin, hide, Welsh ton; akin to Latin tondēre to shear, crop — more at tome 1. : tunnel net 1 2. a. archaic : a chimney flue b. dialect : funnel c. : a hollow conduit or recess : tube, well < drive shaft tunnel > < drying tunnel > specifically : shaft tunnel d. : a bodily channel < a more or less circular tunnel, the neural canal — W.E.Swinton > e. : wind tunnel 3. a. : a covered passageway < the tunnel of a long nave — George Santayana > specifically : a nearly horizontal passageway through or under an obstruction < railroad tunnel through a mountain > < take the midtown tunnel from Long Island to New York > b. (1) : a subterranean gallery (as in a cave or mine) (2) : adit c. : a narrow enclosed pressurized corridor connecting two pressurized personnel compartments of an airplane d. : the burrow of an insect or other animal < mole's tunnel > < termite tunnels in beams > e. : something that resembles a corridor < a tunnel of trees > < headlights created their own tunnel of light — Paul Scott > < trapped in the tunnel of their own logic — Douglas Stewart > specifically : an arch formed by partners' joined hands in a square dance II. verb (tunneled or tunnelled ; tunneled or tunnelled ; tunneling or tunnelling \-n(^ə)liŋ\ ; tunnels) *transitive verb* 1. archaic : to catch in a tunnel net 2. a. : to pass through a covered channel : advance by or as if by excavating a tunnel < belt tunneled through wide black patent girdle — Women's Wear Daily > < larvae … tunneling their way through the cappings — Gleanings in Bee Culture > b. : to penetrate with or as if with a tunnel : make a passage through or under < the acid water … tunneled it, so that it is honeycombed — Marjory S. Douglas > < lights tunnel the darkness > *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to make or use a tunnel < with a view to keeping the gradient down … proposed to tunnel under the ridge — O.S.Nock > < a creaking train … tunneled through the hill — J.A.Michener > b. : undermine < appeared to be tunneling under all the established values — Sherwood Anderson > 2. physics : to pass through a potential barrier < electrons … tunnel back to the vacant sites — Frederick Seitz > III. noun : curl herein
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