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词汇 unplumbed
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Definition of unplumbed in English:

unplumbed

adjective ʌnˈplʌmdˌənˈpləmd
  • 1Not fully explored or understood.

    未经充分探究的;未充分了解的

    one-dimensional performances that leave the play's psychological depths unplumbed

    未充分挖掘剧本心理深度的肤浅表演。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A substantial literature, unplumbed by Rothkopf, explores this topic.
    • And then Welles changes the ending, offering his own gimcrack conclusions about freedom and slavery that belie the unplumbed depths of the material.
    • William James used it to describe states of insight unplumbed by the discursive intellect involving illuminations and revelations that, while inarticulate, are full of significance and importance.
    • But this too became for Beethoven ‘another form of self-denial,’ while musically he worked out ‘possible reconfigurations of musical form… [in order] to sound unplumbed depths of expressivity.’
    • His expression barely changes from a troubled scowl for the whole movie, but Shimura's empathic embodiment of Watanabe is a slow-burn revelation of a small man's unplumbed depths.
    • She sensed something in my voice which betrayed great unplumbed deeps to my soul and an admirable weariness of the plastic norms of Society?
    • This is wrong on levels unplumbed by the science of man.
    • Bourne writes, ‘In his new enthusiasms for continental literature, for unplumbed Russian depths, for French clarity of thought, for Teuton philosophies of power, [the immigrant] feels himself citizen of a larger world’.
    • Ready to Rumble is a movie where no joke about raw sewage goes unplumbed.
    • The musical Once Around the City, with music by Robert Reale and book and lyrics by his brother, Willie, finds unplumbed depths of awfulness in every department, including sets, costumes, staging, and choreography.
    • Sometimes, I'm settling in for a longer story that plumbs hitherto unplumbed deeps of the human experience.
    • One hundred years ago the Harvard psychologist William James wrote that these experiences are ‘states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect.’
    • His almost unimaginable guilt from two consecutive suicides, too, is largely unplumbed, though probably not unfelt.
    • As I write this she's plummeting into the darkness of the West, diving head first into long denied emotions, into the unplumbed depths of subjective and global pain.
    • A well, to John, has many aspects - it is mysterious, it is awesome, and when it holds water, full of unplumbed depths, secretive.
    • Featuring three bald, blue persons in a whole array (two, actually) of wacky scenarios, the ads plumb previously unplumbed depths according to The Register's resident marketing guru, Doctor Spinola.
    Synonyms
    bottomless, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, immeasurable, endless, infinite, measureless
  • 2(of a building or room) not having water and drainage pipes installed and connected.

    (建筑物,房间)无管道设备的

    an unplumbed outhouse

Derivatives

  • unplumbable

  • adjective
    • This is a talent of unplumbable dimensions.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Well, first of all, the diary is a terrific introduction to the wondrous complexity of one's unplumbable soul.
      • Its future does not rely on the generosity of investors with pockets of unplumbable depth.
      • She looked smooth and precious, a thing of unplumbable mysteries, and perilous as quicksand.
      • While I have never doubted the unplumbable dumbness of the Littlest Caesar, the real surprise is that his bosses, like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, aren't the evil geniuses we thought they were.

Definition of unplumbed in US English:

unplumbed

adjectiveˌənˈpləmdˌənˈpləmd
  • 1Unsounded; unfathomed.

    loomed to the surface like a stingray from unplumbed depths
    Example sentencesExamples
    • That sea reminds Arnold's speakers of their isolation from other people and from faith's traditions: in ‘To Marguerite - Continued’ the speaker ends viewing ‘The unplumbed, salt, estranging sea’.
    • Arthur's killer whalesong voice, often a lone entity, bobs in multi-tracked rounds like schools of jellyfish on the unplumbed depths.
    1. 1.1 Not fully explored or understood.
      未经充分探究的;未充分了解的
      one-dimensional performances that leave the play's psychological depths unplumbed

      未充分挖掘剧本心理深度的肤浅表演。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • She sensed something in my voice which betrayed great unplumbed deeps to my soul and an admirable weariness of the plastic norms of Society?
      • As I write this she's plummeting into the darkness of the West, diving head first into long denied emotions, into the unplumbed depths of subjective and global pain.
      • The musical Once Around the City, with music by Robert Reale and book and lyrics by his brother, Willie, finds unplumbed depths of awfulness in every department, including sets, costumes, staging, and choreography.
      • Sometimes, I'm settling in for a longer story that plumbs hitherto unplumbed deeps of the human experience.
      • His expression barely changes from a troubled scowl for the whole movie, but Shimura's empathic embodiment of Watanabe is a slow-burn revelation of a small man's unplumbed depths.
      • Ready to Rumble is a movie where no joke about raw sewage goes unplumbed.
      • His almost unimaginable guilt from two consecutive suicides, too, is largely unplumbed, though probably not unfelt.
      • And then Welles changes the ending, offering his own gimcrack conclusions about freedom and slavery that belie the unplumbed depths of the material.
      • Featuring three bald, blue persons in a whole array (two, actually) of wacky scenarios, the ads plumb previously unplumbed depths according to The Register's resident marketing guru, Doctor Spinola.
      • This is wrong on levels unplumbed by the science of man.
      • William James used it to describe states of insight unplumbed by the discursive intellect involving illuminations and revelations that, while inarticulate, are full of significance and importance.
      • One hundred years ago the Harvard psychologist William James wrote that these experiences are ‘states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect.’
      • But this too became for Beethoven ‘another form of self-denial,’ while musically he worked out ‘possible reconfigurations of musical form… [in order] to sound unplumbed depths of expressivity.’
      • Bourne writes, ‘In his new enthusiasms for continental literature, for unplumbed Russian depths, for French clarity of thought, for Teuton philosophies of power, [the immigrant] feels himself citizen of a larger world’.
      • A substantial literature, unplumbed by Rothkopf, explores this topic.
      • A well, to John, has many aspects - it is mysterious, it is awesome, and when it holds water, full of unplumbed depths, secretive.
      Synonyms
      bottomless, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, immeasurable, endless, infinite, measureless
  • 2(of a building or room) not having water and drainage pipes installed and connected.

    (建筑物,房间)无管道设备的

    an indoor, unplumbed outhouse
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