unearthed

基本解释

Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed.
有些器皿在出土时已经残破。
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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.
研究者在科科达附近的小镇发掘出了六个原始棚户居所的遗迹，包括石器工具的残片和一些食物，小组成员安德鲁菲尔贝恩透露。
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.
他认为星际之门已经被发掘出来了，但是还不能使用，因为一个人在通过这个门之前需要大约五年时间的意识拓展训练。
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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.
直到十九至二十世纪,一些重大的考古发现，才让我们了解到,远古近东的文明,我已经在黑板上画了一幅,栩栩如生的地图了：,地中海，我总是从地中海讲起，尼罗河，底格里斯河，还有幼发拉底河。
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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.