They tried to dig up something from his past to spoil his chances of being elected.
他们试图从他的过去挖出些东西来破坏他当选的可能性。
Examples from the Corpus
dig up• For several days I replanted each morning; the Oscardug them up.• I added several Large AmazonSwords, which looked great for half an hour before the Oscar dug them up.• Neighbors were coming to dig them up.• Fill that hole. Dig it up again.• Mr Sweet does not want to farm the site, but dig it up for the valuablepeatunderneath.• And the location of where he dug it up is on every twenty-fifth-century map.• Last time I half dug it up myself and I thought my back was going to go.• They dug it up when they was making the trench for the pipes to the new vehicleexaminationextension.