Definition of underground in English:

underground

adverb ʌndəˈɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡraʊnd

1Beneath the surface of the ground.
在地下
miners working underground
地下作业的矿工。
Example sentencesExamples
- After nearly an hour underground we returned to the surface, back to normality.
- The water then collects underground to emerge at various spots in the Maligne Canyon some 20 km away, another 425 metre descent.
- Geothermal heating and cooling take advantage of the temperature of the earth's surface, which becomes constant just a few feet underground.
- And unlike Boston or Washington, the tracks can be 50, 100 feet underground.
- Roots might have a hard time to expand properly with clay grounds, looking for and digging in for nutrients underground.
- The tunnels will be bored from the Seymour site with a computer-guided boring machine that will tunnel through bedrock up to 200 metres underground.
- Most of the shops are either above ground or just four storeys underground.
- The groundwater table for our drinking water supply is 180 metres underground and is dropping by one meter every year due to our unsustainable consumption.
- A big issue was to reduce our energy usage and by living underground we could do this,’ said Mr Reddy.
- A total of 240 parking spaces are planned for the hotel, but the biggest site will be New Street which will have 566 spaces underground.
- Normal, everyday potholes are just cracks in the surface, but in this case an underground tunnel is shifting - and the problem can reach many feet underground.
- It's not often one is 300 feet underground!
- However, these pipes could easily be buried underground and where they come to the surface they could be lagged so as to prevent freezing.
- Rescue operations can be lengthy and often members spend hours underground and on the surface in cold and wet conditions.
- The building is designed to retain as much heat as possible in winter and a pump extracts energy from ground water, some 120 metres underground, which helps to heat the atrium.
- The damaged section of the Metro tunnel, nearly 30 metres underground, was sealed off by huge reinforced concrete walls.
- At least there are vending machines underground.
- The tunnelling will take place so deep underground that nobody will hear it on the surface.
- I looked around the fascinating light rail station there - hundreds of feet underground - then had a cup of split pea soup at the Zoo cafe.
- It develops its root system for about ten years underground before it surfaces.
Synonyms
below ground, below the surface, under the earth, in the earth
1. 1.1 In or into secrecy or hiding, especially as a result of carrying out subversive political activities.
  （尤指从事颠覆活动）秘密地，不公开地
  many were forced to go underground by the government
  政府使许多人被迫转入地下活动。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Harsh persecution pushed many underground and into rural hideaways.
  You know, just in case I might really need to go underground some day.
  Once we decided to go underground we had to find money and food and the means to carry out the actions.
  Not only would this drive its members and sympathisers underground, it would have a major impact on the organisation's ability to raise funds.
  Natural disasters can be a threat to the growing expansion of big cities underground.
  The state, like much of the nation as a whole, had a long history of underground industrial activity, especially in times of civil and military conflict.
  In such settings, workers are less likely to seek health services and are more likely to conduct their services underground.
  The government pushed the scene back underground, the only way we are all gonna move this forward is if we come together and come strong.
  The first lift carries visitors underground to what is called the world's biggest salmon stream.
  Synonyms
  into hiding, into secrecy, into seclusion, undercover, behind closed doors, out of sight

adjectiveˈʌndəɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡraʊnd

1Situated beneath the surface of the ground.
在地下
an underground car park
地下停车场。
Example sentencesExamples
- An amazing labyrinth of underground tunnels that lie beneath the surface of Liverpool's Edge Hill district has been intriguing the city's population for generations.
- Instead, Derick noted as he looked down, small tracks of underground root-like stems ran along the earth beneath their feet.
- The flood waters got into a small part of the basement area of the hotel and also to an underground car park.
- It has been reveal that plans for an underground bus park, beneath the current bingo hall, is one of the options currently in the melting pot.
- Perhaps the most fascinating part of Warsaw was what lies beneath: the underground tunnels that connect the Warsaw metro stations.
- The development has been constructed around several landscaped courtyards and features both underground and surface car parking.
- The platform, which will be located on the south side of the station, will allow passengers to enter the platform without having to use the underground subway beneath the other three platforms.
- It's proposed to extend the existing car park and to provide underground car parking beneath the rear of the cinema.
- ‘I have a question for you’, begged a student in information technology who guided us round the old underground salt mines outside the city.
- The grounds will incorporate a courtyard and underground car parking facilities.
- The apartments will all have decked balconies with glass balustrades, ash veneer doors throughout and surface and underground car parking facilities.
- They claim to have concerns that such a mass influx of people into wildlife areas will disrupt animal mating, damage flora and poison underground freshwater sources.
- There is free surface car parking as well as an underground car park.
- More than 100 years after Londoners got the Tube and Parisians a Metro, Dubliners are set to get their own underground public transport system.
- We parked in the underground garage at 30th Street, which is located where several west-side tracks were previously removed.
- Suddenly, with a terrific roar that shook the ground, the underground tank beneath the gas pumps exploded.
- When asked was he concerned about a gas pipeline, he replied: ‘Because it is underground it did not concern us.’
- There's an underground car park beneath the building I work in.
- While the city has since lost much of its lustre, our rubber-wheeled underground public transportation system remains something still worth showing off.
- Centres are characterised by large, modern underground shopping malls, which lack diversity because small businesses have little chance to compete with the multinationals.
Synonyms
subterranean, subterrestrial, below ground, buried, sunken, lower-level, basement
rare hypogean
1. 1.1 Relating to or denoting the secret activities of people working to subvert an established order.
  秘密的，地下的
  Czech underground literature
  捷克地下文学。
  Example sentencesExamples
  You're lying, they were told - wasn't he a part of some secret underground resistance cell?
  Men usually contact other men, who then contract someone engaged in other underground activities and who may lend money at weekly interest rates.
  I had read in the reports that there was a resistance movement, an underground resistance movement.
  He has slept in six different houses in six nights as he adjusts to life as an underground political figure.
  In early 1861, underground resistance and open defiance were rampant in that state.
  The French retaliated by forming an underground resistance movement.
  An underground group of renegade democrats are attempting to establish a free election to determine the fate of their country.
  He had been involved with underground Marxist publications during the thirties.
  The police state that they have no yet found the person responsible for this act, but it is suspected to be related to a secret underground society.
  She was a young 21-year-old underground activist working for the Polish resistance movement and acted as a runner/messenger.
  The reality is that, before decriminalisation, most of the activity was underground, outside the law, and not counted.
  He became an underground activist when he was a 20 year old student.
  Today, imprisoned underground activists continue to write of this subjugated history from the cells that hold them.
  She became active in the underground socialist movement in her mid-teens while she was at high school.
  They've learnt to band together in secret underground groups, occasionally breaking out to form pressure groups demanding action against prejudice and misguided legislation.
  One day, I noticed some of my classmates were nowhere to be seen, and it was said that they were taken away by secret police for underground political activities.
  If the worst happens, I'll start an underground blogging movement with secret servers in people's attics.
  She also discovers the existence of a subversive underground nationalist organization.
  You must be willing to be part of this secret underground movement.
  He even argued with anarchist friends for the establishment of an underground organisation to continue illegal anti-war propaganda once conflict broke out.
  Synonyms
  clandestine, secret, surreptitious, covert, undercover, private, confidential, closet, hole-and-corner, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, back-alley, backstair, stealthy, conspiratorial, concealed, hidden, shrouded
  sneaky, sly, underhand, shifty, furtive
  resistance, subversive, guerrilla, mercenary, revolutionary, rebellious, dissident, insurgent, insurrectionary, renegade, mutinous
  Military black
  informal hush-hush
2. 1.2 Relating to or denoting a group or movement seeking to explore alternative forms of lifestyle or artistic expression; radical and experimental.
  先锋派的；急进探索的
  the New York underground art scene
  纽约先锋艺术景观。
  Example sentencesExamples
  VJ art is the rapidly growing underground arts movement where artists manipulate video in the same way DJs mix records.
  We wanted to seek out all the leaders in the underground scene to do reggae and Latin music.
  Breakdancing, since its conception in the early seventies in New York has been largely ignored by the media but is thriving as a subculture sport and underground art form.
  A boy, a young boy, lost and directionless, finds refuge and comfort in art, in underground movies.
  Matthew has vivid memories of one of his first underground experiences.
  Representing the young generation of photographers she presented her documentation of the underground art world.
  The campaign's first round of ads were subtle, and looked more like they were introducing a new band or an underground art project than a health message.
  Like a record company or an underground art movement, they launched a street team.
  Having been involved in underground music and arts scenes, I came into the game late.
  ‘When we go across these two great countries, we notice that there is a huge underground scene for streetpunk,’ McKinnon says.
  He writes about the alternative music scene for an underground magazine, and hangs out with the likes of rappers and punk bands.
  Within the hip-hop community he is unmatched in the amount of authority and respect he commands among both industry heads and underground artists.
  Certainly, one of the most immediate and popular art forms where underground culture has influenced the mainstream is music and dance.
  As an underground lifestyle person, the opinions are interesting.
  Waters managed to get his films screened in New York, where they soon became mandatory viewing for those in the underground art scene.
  In a similar spirit, you might not expect to find an impressive repository of underground art and comics in a place that most city folks would consider the middle of nowhere.
  The subject matter, style and revolutionary nature of the underground art scene of the 60's would forever change the media of the future generations.
  There was a renewed interest in underground art.
  Overall, this disc is so much fun and evokes so much emotion and includes so much talent and thought, it is a must have indie release for fans of newer radio rock and the underground scene alike.
  Their latest album is one of the most captivating albums around and has created a buzz in the underground music scene.
  Synonyms
  alternative, radical, revolutionary, unconventional, unorthodox, avant-garde, experimental, innovative, groundbreaking, pioneering, novel
  subversive

nounˈʌndəɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡraʊnd

1British An underground railway, especially the one in London.
〈英〉（尤指伦敦）地铁
travel chaos on the Underground
地铁运营混乱。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Undergrounds were packed like canned sardines.
- In Camden Town, I'll meet you by the Underground.
- There's been a call for women-only carriages on London's Underground.
- I then got the Underground and the train to Westcliff.
Synonyms
underground railway, metro
North American subway
British informal tube
2A group or movement organized secretly to work against an existing regime.
（反对现有政权的）地下组织或运动
the French underground
Example sentencesExamples
- Breaking into high-speed networks to make it easier to share illicit content online is a fairly common trick among members of the computer underground.
- Activists are aiming to build on the general feeling over the issue to get support across the underground for the dispute.
- I know a few people, members of the underground who may be able to help a little, but no one in that class.
- She got involved in the socialist underground, producing leaflets and intervening in strikes.
- The solidarity of the underground was deeper than the fear of secret police my countrymen shared.
- In the repressions following 1905, the underground was demoralized by defeat and ideological wrangling.
Synonyms
resistance movement, resistance, illegal opposition
partisans, guerrillas, freedom fighters
in France, historical Maquis
1. 2.1Indian A member of an underground political group or movement.
  they appealed to the undergrounds to stop their violent activities
3A group or movement seeking to explore alternative forms of lifestyle or artistic expression.
先锋派的；急进探索的
the late sixties underground
六十年代后期的先锋派运动。
Example sentencesExamples
- While it didn't show up in any Billboard charts, the story of 2002's rock and dance undergrounds was the resurgence of post-punk.
- There is a world of information being shared digitally however in the latest revolutionary attempt by the artistic and literary underground.
- The California underground has long been a breeding ground for forward-thinking hip-hop.
- The mad collision of cultures and styles found in these tracks represents the alternative underground's resistance to that conservatism.
- The Japanese underground is usually associated with manic, off the wall hardcore.

verb

[with object]

Lay (cables) below ground level.
铺（电缆）于地下
sections of electricity line had been undergrounded
the environment secretary ordered the undergrounding of cables
Example sentencesExamples
- The City of Laguna is undergrounding all the ugly wires and utility poles.

Rhymes

abound, aground, around, astound, bound, compound, confound, dumbfound, expound, found, ground, hound, impound, interwound, mound, pound, profound, propound, redound, round, sound, stoneground, surround, theatre-in-the-round (US theater-in-the-round), wound

Definition of underground in US English:

underground

adverbˈəndərˌɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡround

1Beneath the surface of the ground.
在地下
miners working underground
地下作业的矿工。
Example sentencesExamples
- At least there are vending machines underground.
- The building is designed to retain as much heat as possible in winter and a pump extracts energy from ground water, some 120 metres underground, which helps to heat the atrium.
- It's not often one is 300 feet underground!
- Rescue operations can be lengthy and often members spend hours underground and on the surface in cold and wet conditions.
- Normal, everyday potholes are just cracks in the surface, but in this case an underground tunnel is shifting - and the problem can reach many feet underground.
- A big issue was to reduce our energy usage and by living underground we could do this,’ said Mr Reddy.
- Most of the shops are either above ground or just four storeys underground.
- The tunnels will be bored from the Seymour site with a computer-guided boring machine that will tunnel through bedrock up to 200 metres underground.
- I looked around the fascinating light rail station there - hundreds of feet underground - then had a cup of split pea soup at the Zoo cafe.
- It develops its root system for about ten years underground before it surfaces.
- However, these pipes could easily be buried underground and where they come to the surface they could be lagged so as to prevent freezing.
- After nearly an hour underground we returned to the surface, back to normality.
- A total of 240 parking spaces are planned for the hotel, but the biggest site will be New Street which will have 566 spaces underground.
- Geothermal heating and cooling take advantage of the temperature of the earth's surface, which becomes constant just a few feet underground.
- The groundwater table for our drinking water supply is 180 metres underground and is dropping by one meter every year due to our unsustainable consumption.
- The tunnelling will take place so deep underground that nobody will hear it on the surface.
- And unlike Boston or Washington, the tracks can be 50, 100 feet underground.
- The damaged section of the Metro tunnel, nearly 30 metres underground, was sealed off by huge reinforced concrete walls.
- Roots might have a hard time to expand properly with clay grounds, looking for and digging in for nutrients underground.
- The water then collects underground to emerge at various spots in the Maligne Canyon some 20 km away, another 425 metre descent.
Synonyms
below ground, below the surface, under the earth, in the earth
1. 1.1 In or into secrecy or hiding, especially as a result of carrying out subversive political activities.
  （尤指从事颠覆活动）秘密地，不公开地
  many were forced to go underground by the government
  政府使许多人被迫转入地下活动。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Not only would this drive its members and sympathisers underground, it would have a major impact on the organisation's ability to raise funds.
  Harsh persecution pushed many underground and into rural hideaways.
  The state, like much of the nation as a whole, had a long history of underground industrial activity, especially in times of civil and military conflict.
  Once we decided to go underground we had to find money and food and the means to carry out the actions.
  The first lift carries visitors underground to what is called the world's biggest salmon stream.
  Natural disasters can be a threat to the growing expansion of big cities underground.
  In such settings, workers are less likely to seek health services and are more likely to conduct their services underground.
  The government pushed the scene back underground, the only way we are all gonna move this forward is if we come together and come strong.
  You know, just in case I might really need to go underground some day.
  Synonyms
  into hiding, into secrecy, into seclusion, undercover, behind closed doors, out of sight

adjectiveˈəndərˌɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡround

1Situated beneath the surface of the ground.
在地下
underground parking garages
Example sentencesExamples
- When asked was he concerned about a gas pipeline, he replied: ‘Because it is underground it did not concern us.’
- The flood waters got into a small part of the basement area of the hotel and also to an underground car park.
- Perhaps the most fascinating part of Warsaw was what lies beneath: the underground tunnels that connect the Warsaw metro stations.
- It's proposed to extend the existing car park and to provide underground car parking beneath the rear of the cinema.
- There is free surface car parking as well as an underground car park.
- An amazing labyrinth of underground tunnels that lie beneath the surface of Liverpool's Edge Hill district has been intriguing the city's population for generations.
- More than 100 years after Londoners got the Tube and Parisians a Metro, Dubliners are set to get their own underground public transport system.
- Suddenly, with a terrific roar that shook the ground, the underground tank beneath the gas pumps exploded.
- We parked in the underground garage at 30th Street, which is located where several west-side tracks were previously removed.
- They claim to have concerns that such a mass influx of people into wildlife areas will disrupt animal mating, damage flora and poison underground freshwater sources.
- The development has been constructed around several landscaped courtyards and features both underground and surface car parking.
- The grounds will incorporate a courtyard and underground car parking facilities.
- The platform, which will be located on the south side of the station, will allow passengers to enter the platform without having to use the underground subway beneath the other three platforms.
- There's an underground car park beneath the building I work in.
- The apartments will all have decked balconies with glass balustrades, ash veneer doors throughout and surface and underground car parking facilities.
- Instead, Derick noted as he looked down, small tracks of underground root-like stems ran along the earth beneath their feet.
- ‘I have a question for you’, begged a student in information technology who guided us round the old underground salt mines outside the city.
- While the city has since lost much of its lustre, our rubber-wheeled underground public transportation system remains something still worth showing off.
- Centres are characterised by large, modern underground shopping malls, which lack diversity because small businesses have little chance to compete with the multinationals.
- It has been reveal that plans for an underground bus park, beneath the current bingo hall, is one of the options currently in the melting pot.
Synonyms
subterranean, subterrestrial, below ground, buried, sunken, lower-level, basement
1. 1.1 Relating to the secret activities of people working to subvert an established order.
  秘密的，地下的
  Czech underground literature
  捷克地下文学。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He has slept in six different houses in six nights as he adjusts to life as an underground political figure.
  She also discovers the existence of a subversive underground nationalist organization.
  She was a young 21-year-old underground activist working for the Polish resistance movement and acted as a runner/messenger.
  She became active in the underground socialist movement in her mid-teens while she was at high school.
  You must be willing to be part of this secret underground movement.
  He became an underground activist when he was a 20 year old student.
  The reality is that, before decriminalisation, most of the activity was underground, outside the law, and not counted.
  He even argued with anarchist friends for the establishment of an underground organisation to continue illegal anti-war propaganda once conflict broke out.
  One day, I noticed some of my classmates were nowhere to be seen, and it was said that they were taken away by secret police for underground political activities.
  You're lying, they were told - wasn't he a part of some secret underground resistance cell?
  An underground group of renegade democrats are attempting to establish a free election to determine the fate of their country.
  The French retaliated by forming an underground resistance movement.
  In early 1861, underground resistance and open defiance were rampant in that state.
  He had been involved with underground Marxist publications during the thirties.
  Men usually contact other men, who then contract someone engaged in other underground activities and who may lend money at weekly interest rates.
  The police state that they have no yet found the person responsible for this act, but it is suspected to be related to a secret underground society.
  If the worst happens, I'll start an underground blogging movement with secret servers in people's attics.
  Today, imprisoned underground activists continue to write of this subjugated history from the cells that hold them.
  I had read in the reports that there was a resistance movement, an underground resistance movement.
  They've learnt to band together in secret underground groups, occasionally breaking out to form pressure groups demanding action against prejudice and misguided legislation.
  Synonyms
  clandestine, secret, surreptitious, covert, undercover, private, confidential, closet, hole-and-corner, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, back-alley, backstair, stealthy, conspiratorial, concealed, hidden, shrouded
2. 1.2 Relating to or denoting a group or movement seeking to explore alternative forms of lifestyle or artistic expression; radical and experimental.
  先锋派的；急进探索的
  the New York underground art scene
  纽约先锋艺术景观。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Waters managed to get his films screened in New York, where they soon became mandatory viewing for those in the underground art scene.
  The subject matter, style and revolutionary nature of the underground art scene of the 60's would forever change the media of the future generations.
  Overall, this disc is so much fun and evokes so much emotion and includes so much talent and thought, it is a must have indie release for fans of newer radio rock and the underground scene alike.
  Having been involved in underground music and arts scenes, I came into the game late.
  VJ art is the rapidly growing underground arts movement where artists manipulate video in the same way DJs mix records.
  Breakdancing, since its conception in the early seventies in New York has been largely ignored by the media but is thriving as a subculture sport and underground art form.
  We wanted to seek out all the leaders in the underground scene to do reggae and Latin music.
  Certainly, one of the most immediate and popular art forms where underground culture has influenced the mainstream is music and dance.
  A boy, a young boy, lost and directionless, finds refuge and comfort in art, in underground movies.
  Like a record company or an underground art movement, they launched a street team.
  Their latest album is one of the most captivating albums around and has created a buzz in the underground music scene.
  Within the hip-hop community he is unmatched in the amount of authority and respect he commands among both industry heads and underground artists.
  The campaign's first round of ads were subtle, and looked more like they were introducing a new band or an underground art project than a health message.
  In a similar spirit, you might not expect to find an impressive repository of underground art and comics in a place that most city folks would consider the middle of nowhere.
  ‘When we go across these two great countries, we notice that there is a huge underground scene for streetpunk,’ McKinnon says.
  Representing the young generation of photographers she presented her documentation of the underground art world.
  There was a renewed interest in underground art.
  Matthew has vivid memories of one of his first underground experiences.
  He writes about the alternative music scene for an underground magazine, and hangs out with the likes of rappers and punk bands.
  As an underground lifestyle person, the opinions are interesting.
  Synonyms
  alternative, radical, revolutionary, unconventional, unorthodox, avant-garde, experimental, innovative, groundbreaking, pioneering, novel

nounˈəndərˌɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡround

1A group or movement organized secretly to work against an existing regime.
（反对现有政权的）地下组织或运动
I got involved with the French underground
Example sentencesExamples
- Breaking into high-speed networks to make it easier to share illicit content online is a fairly common trick among members of the computer underground.
- She got involved in the socialist underground, producing leaflets and intervening in strikes.
- Activists are aiming to build on the general feeling over the issue to get support across the underground for the dispute.
- I know a few people, members of the underground who may be able to help a little, but no one in that class.
- In the repressions following 1905, the underground was demoralized by defeat and ideological wrangling.
- The solidarity of the underground was deeper than the fear of secret police my countrymen shared.
Synonyms
resistance movement, resistance, illegal opposition
1. 1.1Indian A member of an underground political group or movement.
  they appealed to the undergrounds to stop their violent activities
2A group or movement seeking to explore alternative forms of lifestyle or artistic expression.
先锋派的；急进探索的
the late-sixties underground
六十年代后期的先锋派运动。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Japanese underground is usually associated with manic, off the wall hardcore.
- The California underground has long been a breeding ground for forward-thinking hip-hop.
- The mad collision of cultures and styles found in these tracks represents the alternative underground's resistance to that conservatism.
- While it didn't show up in any Billboard charts, the story of 2002's rock and dance undergrounds was the resurgence of post-punk.
- There is a world of information being shared digitally however in the latest revolutionary attempt by the artistic and literary underground.
3the UndergroundBritish A subway, especially the one in London.
travel chaos on the Underground
地铁运营混乱。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Undergrounds were packed like canned sardines.
- I then got the Underground and the train to Westcliff.
- In Camden Town, I'll meet you by the Underground.
- There's been a call for women-only carriages on London's Underground.
Synonyms
underground railway, metro

词汇	underground
释义	Definition of underground in English: underground adverb ʌndəˈɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡraʊnd 1Beneath the surface of the ground. 在地下 miners working underground 地下作业的矿工。 Example sentencesExamples After nearly an hour underground we returned to the surface, back to normality. The water then collects underground to emerge at various spots in the Maligne Canyon some 20 km away, another 425 metre descent. Geothermal heating and cooling take advantage of the temperature of the earth's surface, which becomes constant just a few feet underground. And unlike Boston or Washington, the tracks can be 50, 100 feet underground. Roots might have a hard time to expand properly with clay grounds, looking for and digging in for nutrients underground. The tunnels will be bored from the Seymour site with a computer-guided boring machine that will tunnel through bedrock up to 200 metres underground. Most of the shops are either above ground or just four storeys underground. The groundwater table for our drinking water supply is 180 metres underground and is dropping by one meter every year due to our unsustainable consumption. A big issue was to reduce our energy usage and by living underground we could do this,’ said Mr Reddy. A total of 240 parking spaces are planned for the hotel, but the biggest site will be New Street which will have 566 spaces underground. Normal, everyday potholes are just cracks in the surface, but in this case an underground tunnel is shifting - and the problem can reach many feet underground. It's not often one is 300 feet underground! However, these pipes could easily be buried underground and where they come to the surface they could be lagged so as to prevent freezing. Rescue operations can be lengthy and often members spend hours underground and on the surface in cold and wet conditions. The building is designed to retain as much heat as possible in winter and a pump extracts energy from ground water, some 120 metres underground, which helps to heat the atrium. The damaged section of the Metro tunnel, nearly 30 metres underground, was sealed off by huge reinforced concrete walls. At least there are vending machines underground. The tunnelling will take place so deep underground that nobody will hear it on the surface. I looked around the fascinating light rail station there - hundreds of feet underground - then had a cup of split pea soup at the Zoo cafe. It develops its root system for about ten years underground before it surfaces. Synonyms below ground, below the surface, under the earth, in the earth 1.1 In or into secrecy or hiding, especially as a result of carrying out subversive political activities. （尤指从事颠覆活动）秘密地，不公开地 many were forced to go underground by the government 政府使许多人被迫转入地下活动。 Example sentencesExamples Harsh persecution pushed many underground and into rural hideaways. You know, just in case I might really need to go underground some day. Once we decided to go underground we had to find money and food and the means to carry out the actions. Not only would this drive its members and sympathisers underground, it would have a major impact on the organisation's ability to raise funds. Natural disasters can be a threat to the growing expansion of big cities underground. The state, like much of the nation as a whole, had a long history of underground industrial activity, especially in times of civil and military conflict. In such settings, workers are less likely to seek health services and are more likely to conduct their services underground. The government pushed the scene back underground, the only way we are all gonna move this forward is if we come together and come strong. The first lift carries visitors underground to what is called the world's biggest salmon stream. Synonyms into hiding, into secrecy, into seclusion, undercover, behind closed doors, out of sight adjectiveˈʌndəɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡraʊnd 1Situated beneath the surface of the ground. 在地下 an underground car park 地下停车场。 Example sentencesExamples An amazing labyrinth of underground tunnels that lie beneath the surface of Liverpool's Edge Hill district has been intriguing the city's population for generations. Instead, Derick noted as he looked down, small tracks of underground root-like stems ran along the earth beneath their feet. The flood waters got into a small part of the basement area of the hotel and also to an underground car park. It has been reveal that plans for an underground bus park, beneath the current bingo hall, is one of the options currently in the melting pot. Perhaps the most fascinating part of Warsaw was what lies beneath: the underground tunnels that connect the Warsaw metro stations. The development has been constructed around several landscaped courtyards and features both underground and surface car parking. The platform, which will be located on the south side of the station, will allow passengers to enter the platform without having to use the underground subway beneath the other three platforms. It's proposed to extend the existing car park and to provide underground car parking beneath the rear of the cinema. ‘I have a question for you’, begged a student in information technology who guided us round the old underground salt mines outside the city. The grounds will incorporate a courtyard and underground car parking facilities. The apartments will all have decked balconies with glass balustrades, ash veneer doors throughout and surface and underground car parking facilities. They claim to have concerns that such a mass influx of people into wildlife areas will disrupt animal mating, damage flora and poison underground freshwater sources. There is free surface car parking as well as an underground car park. More than 100 years after Londoners got the Tube and Parisians a Metro, Dubliners are set to get their own underground public transport system. We parked in the underground garage at 30th Street, which is located where several west-side tracks were previously removed. Suddenly, with a terrific roar that shook the ground, the underground tank beneath the gas pumps exploded. When asked was he concerned about a gas pipeline, he replied: ‘Because it is underground it did not concern us.’ There's an underground car park beneath the building I work in. While the city has since lost much of its lustre, our rubber-wheeled underground public transportation system remains something still worth showing off. Centres are characterised by large, modern underground shopping malls, which lack diversity because small businesses have little chance to compete with the multinationals. Synonyms subterranean, subterrestrial, below ground, buried, sunken, lower-level, basement rare hypogean 1.1 Relating to or denoting the secret activities of people working to subvert an established order. 秘密的，地下的 Czech underground literature 捷克地下文学。 Example sentencesExamples You're lying, they were told - wasn't he a part of some secret underground resistance cell? Men usually contact other men, who then contract someone engaged in other underground activities and who may lend money at weekly interest rates. I had read in the reports that there was a resistance movement, an underground resistance movement. He has slept in six different houses in six nights as he adjusts to life as an underground political figure. In early 1861, underground resistance and open defiance were rampant in that state. The French retaliated by forming an underground resistance movement. An underground group of renegade democrats are attempting to establish a free election to determine the fate of their country. He had been involved with underground Marxist publications during the thirties. The police state that they have no yet found the person responsible for this act, but it is suspected to be related to a secret underground society. She was a young 21-year-old underground activist working for the Polish resistance movement and acted as a runner/messenger. The reality is that, before decriminalisation, most of the activity was underground, outside the law, and not counted. He became an underground activist when he was a 20 year old student. Today, imprisoned underground activists continue to write of this subjugated history from the cells that hold them. She became active in the underground socialist movement in her mid-teens while she was at high school. They've learnt to band together in secret underground groups, occasionally breaking out to form pressure groups demanding action against prejudice and misguided legislation. One day, I noticed some of my classmates were nowhere to be seen, and it was said that they were taken away by secret police for underground political activities. If the worst happens, I'll start an underground blogging movement with secret servers in people's attics. She also discovers the existence of a subversive underground nationalist organization. You must be willing to be part of this secret underground movement. He even argued with anarchist friends for the establishment of an underground organisation to continue illegal anti-war propaganda once conflict broke out. Synonyms clandestine, secret, surreptitious, covert, undercover, private, confidential, closet, hole-and-corner, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, back-alley, backstair, stealthy, conspiratorial, concealed, hidden, shrouded sneaky, sly, underhand, shifty, furtive resistance, subversive, guerrilla, mercenary, revolutionary, rebellious, dissident, insurgent, insurrectionary, renegade, mutinous Military black informal hush-hush 1.2 Relating to or denoting a group or movement seeking to explore alternative forms of lifestyle or artistic expression; radical and experimental. 先锋派的；急进探索的 the New York underground art scene 纽约先锋艺术景观。 Example sentencesExamples VJ art is the rapidly growing underground arts movement where artists manipulate video in the same way DJs mix records. We wanted to seek out all the leaders in the underground scene to do reggae and Latin music. Breakdancing, since its conception in the early seventies in New York has been largely ignored by the media but is thriving as a subculture sport and underground art form. A boy, a young boy, lost and directionless, finds refuge and comfort in art, in underground movies. Matthew has vivid memories of one of his first underground experiences. Representing the young generation of photographers she presented her documentation of the underground art world. The campaign's first round of ads were subtle, and looked more like they were introducing a new band or an underground art project than a health message. Like a record company or an underground art movement, they launched a street team. Having been involved in underground music and arts scenes, I came into the game late. ‘When we go across these two great countries, we notice that there is a huge underground scene for streetpunk,’ McKinnon says. He writes about the alternative music scene for an underground magazine, and hangs out with the likes of rappers and punk bands. Within the hip-hop community he is unmatched in the amount of authority and respect he commands among both industry heads and underground artists. Certainly, one of the most immediate and popular art forms where underground culture has influenced the mainstream is music and dance. As an underground lifestyle person, the opinions are interesting. Waters managed to get his films screened in New York, where they soon became mandatory viewing for those in the underground art scene. In a similar spirit, you might not expect to find an impressive repository of underground art and comics in a place that most city folks would consider the middle of nowhere. The subject matter, style and revolutionary nature of the underground art scene of the 60's would forever change the media of the future generations. There was a renewed interest in underground art. Overall, this disc is so much fun and evokes so much emotion and includes so much talent and thought, it is a must have indie release for fans of newer radio rock and the underground scene alike. Their latest album is one of the most captivating albums around and has created a buzz in the underground music scene. Synonyms alternative, radical, revolutionary, unconventional, unorthodox, avant-garde, experimental, innovative, groundbreaking, pioneering, novel subversive nounˈʌndəɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡraʊnd 1British An underground railway, especially the one in London. 〈英〉（尤指伦敦）地铁 travel chaos on the Underground 地铁运营混乱。 Example sentencesExamples The Undergrounds were packed like canned sardines. In Camden Town, I'll meet you by the Underground. There's been a call for women-only carriages on London's Underground. I then got the Underground and the train to Westcliff. Synonyms underground railway, metro North American subway British informal tube 2A group or movement organized secretly to work against an existing regime. （反对现有政权的）地下组织或运动 the French underground Example sentencesExamples Breaking into high-speed networks to make it easier to share illicit content online is a fairly common trick among members of the computer underground. Activists are aiming to build on the general feeling over the issue to get support across the underground for the dispute. I know a few people, members of the underground who may be able to help a little, but no one in that class. She got involved in the socialist underground, producing leaflets and intervening in strikes. The solidarity of the underground was deeper than the fear of secret police my countrymen shared. In the repressions following 1905, the underground was demoralized by defeat and ideological wrangling. Synonyms resistance movement, resistance, illegal opposition partisans, guerrillas, freedom fighters in France, historical Maquis 2.1Indian A member of an underground political group or movement. they appealed to the undergrounds to stop their violent activities 3A group or movement seeking to explore alternative forms of lifestyle or artistic expression. 先锋派的；急进探索的 the late sixties underground 六十年代后期的先锋派运动。 Example sentencesExamples While it didn't show up in any Billboard charts, the story of 2002's rock and dance undergrounds was the resurgence of post-punk. There is a world of information being shared digitally however in the latest revolutionary attempt by the artistic and literary underground. The California underground has long been a breeding ground for forward-thinking hip-hop. The mad collision of cultures and styles found in these tracks represents the alternative underground's resistance to that conservatism. The Japanese underground is usually associated with manic, off the wall hardcore. verb [with object] Lay (cables) below ground level. 铺（电缆）于地下 sections of electricity line had been undergrounded the environment secretary ordered the undergrounding of cables Example sentencesExamples The City of Laguna is undergrounding all the ugly wires and utility poles. Rhymes abound, aground, around, astound, bound, compound, confound, dumbfound, expound, found, ground, hound, impound, interwound, mound, pound, profound, propound, redound, round, sound, stoneground, surround, theatre-in-the-round (US theater-in-the-round), wound Definition of underground in US English: underground adverbˈəndərˌɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡround 1Beneath the surface of the ground. 在地下 miners working underground 地下作业的矿工。 Example sentencesExamples At least there are vending machines underground. The building is designed to retain as much heat as possible in winter and a pump extracts energy from ground water, some 120 metres underground, which helps to heat the atrium. It's not often one is 300 feet underground! Rescue operations can be lengthy and often members spend hours underground and on the surface in cold and wet conditions. Normal, everyday potholes are just cracks in the surface, but in this case an underground tunnel is shifting - and the problem can reach many feet underground. A big issue was to reduce our energy usage and by living underground we could do this,’ said Mr Reddy. Most of the shops are either above ground or just four storeys underground. The tunnels will be bored from the Seymour site with a computer-guided boring machine that will tunnel through bedrock up to 200 metres underground. I looked around the fascinating light rail station there - hundreds of feet underground - then had a cup of split pea soup at the Zoo cafe. It develops its root system for about ten years underground before it surfaces. However, these pipes could easily be buried underground and where they come to the surface they could be lagged so as to prevent freezing. After nearly an hour underground we returned to the surface, back to normality. A total of 240 parking spaces are planned for the hotel, but the biggest site will be New Street which will have 566 spaces underground. Geothermal heating and cooling take advantage of the temperature of the earth's surface, which becomes constant just a few feet underground. The groundwater table for our drinking water supply is 180 metres underground and is dropping by one meter every year due to our unsustainable consumption. The tunnelling will take place so deep underground that nobody will hear it on the surface. And unlike Boston or Washington, the tracks can be 50, 100 feet underground. The damaged section of the Metro tunnel, nearly 30 metres underground, was sealed off by huge reinforced concrete walls. Roots might have a hard time to expand properly with clay grounds, looking for and digging in for nutrients underground. The water then collects underground to emerge at various spots in the Maligne Canyon some 20 km away, another 425 metre descent. Synonyms below ground, below the surface, under the earth, in the earth 1.1 In or into secrecy or hiding, especially as a result of carrying out subversive political activities. （尤指从事颠覆活动）秘密地，不公开地 many were forced to go underground by the government 政府使许多人被迫转入地下活动。 Example sentencesExamples Not only would this drive its members and sympathisers underground, it would have a major impact on the organisation's ability to raise funds. Harsh persecution pushed many underground and into rural hideaways. The state, like much of the nation as a whole, had a long history of underground industrial activity, especially in times of civil and military conflict. Once we decided to go underground we had to find money and food and the means to carry out the actions. The first lift carries visitors underground to what is called the world's biggest salmon stream. Natural disasters can be a threat to the growing expansion of big cities underground. In such settings, workers are less likely to seek health services and are more likely to conduct their services underground. The government pushed the scene back underground, the only way we are all gonna move this forward is if we come together and come strong. You know, just in case I might really need to go underground some day. Synonyms into hiding, into secrecy, into seclusion, undercover, behind closed doors, out of sight adjectiveˈəndərˌɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡround 1Situated beneath the surface of the ground. 在地下 underground parking garages Example sentencesExamples When asked was he concerned about a gas pipeline, he replied: ‘Because it is underground it did not concern us.’ The flood waters got into a small part of the basement area of the hotel and also to an underground car park. Perhaps the most fascinating part of Warsaw was what lies beneath: the underground tunnels that connect the Warsaw metro stations. It's proposed to extend the existing car park and to provide underground car parking beneath the rear of the cinema. There is free surface car parking as well as an underground car park. An amazing labyrinth of underground tunnels that lie beneath the surface of Liverpool's Edge Hill district has been intriguing the city's population for generations. More than 100 years after Londoners got the Tube and Parisians a Metro, Dubliners are set to get their own underground public transport system. Suddenly, with a terrific roar that shook the ground, the underground tank beneath the gas pumps exploded. We parked in the underground garage at 30th Street, which is located where several west-side tracks were previously removed. They claim to have concerns that such a mass influx of people into wildlife areas will disrupt animal mating, damage flora and poison underground freshwater sources. The development has been constructed around several landscaped courtyards and features both underground and surface car parking. The grounds will incorporate a courtyard and underground car parking facilities. The platform, which will be located on the south side of the station, will allow passengers to enter the platform without having to use the underground subway beneath the other three platforms. There's an underground car park beneath the building I work in. The apartments will all have decked balconies with glass balustrades, ash veneer doors throughout and surface and underground car parking facilities. Instead, Derick noted as he looked down, small tracks of underground root-like stems ran along the earth beneath their feet. ‘I have a question for you’, begged a student in information technology who guided us round the old underground salt mines outside the city. While the city has since lost much of its lustre, our rubber-wheeled underground public transportation system remains something still worth showing off. Centres are characterised by large, modern underground shopping malls, which lack diversity because small businesses have little chance to compete with the multinationals. It has been reveal that plans for an underground bus park, beneath the current bingo hall, is one of the options currently in the melting pot. Synonyms subterranean, subterrestrial, below ground, buried, sunken, lower-level, basement 1.1 Relating to the secret activities of people working to subvert an established order. 秘密的，地下的 Czech underground literature 捷克地下文学。 Example sentencesExamples He has slept in six different houses in six nights as he adjusts to life as an underground political figure. She also discovers the existence of a subversive underground nationalist organization. She was a young 21-year-old underground activist working for the Polish resistance movement and acted as a runner/messenger. She became active in the underground socialist movement in her mid-teens while she was at high school. You must be willing to be part of this secret underground movement. He became an underground activist when he was a 20 year old student. The reality is that, before decriminalisation, most of the activity was underground, outside the law, and not counted. He even argued with anarchist friends for the establishment of an underground organisation to continue illegal anti-war propaganda once conflict broke out. One day, I noticed some of my classmates were nowhere to be seen, and it was said that they were taken away by secret police for underground political activities. You're lying, they were told - wasn't he a part of some secret underground resistance cell? An underground group of renegade democrats are attempting to establish a free election to determine the fate of their country. The French retaliated by forming an underground resistance movement. In early 1861, underground resistance and open defiance were rampant in that state. He had been involved with underground Marxist publications during the thirties. Men usually contact other men, who then contract someone engaged in other underground activities and who may lend money at weekly interest rates. The police state that they have no yet found the person responsible for this act, but it is suspected to be related to a secret underground society. If the worst happens, I'll start an underground blogging movement with secret servers in people's attics. Today, imprisoned underground activists continue to write of this subjugated history from the cells that hold them. I had read in the reports that there was a resistance movement, an underground resistance movement. They've learnt to band together in secret underground groups, occasionally breaking out to form pressure groups demanding action against prejudice and misguided legislation. Synonyms clandestine, secret, surreptitious, covert, undercover, private, confidential, closet, hole-and-corner, cloak-and-dagger, hugger-mugger, back-alley, backstair, stealthy, conspiratorial, concealed, hidden, shrouded 1.2 Relating to or denoting a group or movement seeking to explore alternative forms of lifestyle or artistic expression; radical and experimental. 先锋派的；急进探索的 the New York underground art scene 纽约先锋艺术景观。 Example sentencesExamples Waters managed to get his films screened in New York, where they soon became mandatory viewing for those in the underground art scene. The subject matter, style and revolutionary nature of the underground art scene of the 60's would forever change the media of the future generations. Overall, this disc is so much fun and evokes so much emotion and includes so much talent and thought, it is a must have indie release for fans of newer radio rock and the underground scene alike. Having been involved in underground music and arts scenes, I came into the game late. VJ art is the rapidly growing underground arts movement where artists manipulate video in the same way DJs mix records. Breakdancing, since its conception in the early seventies in New York has been largely ignored by the media but is thriving as a subculture sport and underground art form. We wanted to seek out all the leaders in the underground scene to do reggae and Latin music. Certainly, one of the most immediate and popular art forms where underground culture has influenced the mainstream is music and dance. A boy, a young boy, lost and directionless, finds refuge and comfort in art, in underground movies. Like a record company or an underground art movement, they launched a street team. Their latest album is one of the most captivating albums around and has created a buzz in the underground music scene. Within the hip-hop community he is unmatched in the amount of authority and respect he commands among both industry heads and underground artists. The campaign's first round of ads were subtle, and looked more like they were introducing a new band or an underground art project than a health message. In a similar spirit, you might not expect to find an impressive repository of underground art and comics in a place that most city folks would consider the middle of nowhere. ‘When we go across these two great countries, we notice that there is a huge underground scene for streetpunk,’ McKinnon says. Representing the young generation of photographers she presented her documentation of the underground art world. There was a renewed interest in underground art. Matthew has vivid memories of one of his first underground experiences. He writes about the alternative music scene for an underground magazine, and hangs out with the likes of rappers and punk bands. As an underground lifestyle person, the opinions are interesting. Synonyms alternative, radical, revolutionary, unconventional, unorthodox, avant-garde, experimental, innovative, groundbreaking, pioneering, novel nounˈəndərˌɡraʊndˈəndərˌɡround 1A group or movement organized secretly to work against an existing regime. （反对现有政权的）地下组织或运动 I got involved with the French underground Example sentencesExamples Breaking into high-speed networks to make it easier to share illicit content online is a fairly common trick among members of the computer underground. She got involved in the socialist underground, producing leaflets and intervening in strikes. Activists are aiming to build on the general feeling over the issue to get support across the underground for the dispute. I know a few people, members of the underground who may be able to help a little, but no one in that class. In the repressions following 1905, the underground was demoralized by defeat and ideological wrangling. The solidarity of the underground was deeper than the fear of secret police my countrymen shared. Synonyms resistance movement, resistance, illegal opposition 1.1Indian A member of an underground political group or movement. they appealed to the undergrounds to stop their violent activities 2A group or movement seeking to explore alternative forms of lifestyle or artistic expression. 先锋派的；急进探索的 the late-sixties underground 六十年代后期的先锋派运动。 Example sentencesExamples The Japanese underground is usually associated with manic, off the wall hardcore. The California underground has long been a breeding ground for forward-thinking hip-hop. The mad collision of cultures and styles found in these tracks represents the alternative underground's resistance to that conservatism. While it didn't show up in any Billboard charts, the story of 2002's rock and dance undergrounds was the resurgence of post-punk. There is a world of information being shared digitally however in the latest revolutionary attempt by the artistic and literary underground. 3the UndergroundBritish A subway, especially the one in London. travel chaos on the Underground 地铁运营混乱。 Example sentencesExamples The Undergrounds were packed like canned sardines. I then got the Underground and the train to Westcliff. In Camden Town, I'll meet you by the Underground. There's been a call for women-only carriages on London's Underground. Synonyms underground railway, metro
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