underground

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un·der·ground1 /ˈʌndəɡraʊnd $ -ər-/ adjectiveadj

1 UNDER/BELOWbelow the surface of the earth 地(面)下的

an underground passage

地下通道

The car park is underground.

停车场在地下。

2 [only before noun]SECRET an underground group, organization etc is secret and illegal 〔团体、组织等〕地下的，秘密的，不合法的

an underground terrorist organization

地下恐怖主义组织

► see thesaurus at secret

3 [only before noun] underground literature, newspapers etc are read by a small number of people, and would seem slightly strange or shocking to most people 〔文学作品、报纸等〕小众的，非主流的

the underground press

小众报刊

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underground• The office's parking garage is underground.• Also, underground conditions were significantly different from what was anticipated.• But instead he returned to Hue as an organizer for an underground movement.• an underground newspaper• underground nuclear testing• Slowly an underground resistance movement grew, catering for discriminating customers.• If it is chosen, the underground site could start receiving canisters of waste in 2010, Olds said.• A private consortium has financial backing for a scheme to build an entire underground toll-road system.• The gas, which seeps out of the earth from underground uranium deposits, can collect in dangerous concentrations in some houses.• Amplification of this energy promotes fertilization of the surrounding area via underground water-courses.

un·der·ground2 /ˌʌndəˈɡraʊnd $ -ər-/ adverbadv

1 UNDER/BELOWunder the earth’s surface 在地(面)下

This animal spends most of its life underground.

这种动物一生中的大部分时间都待在地下。

nuclear waste buried deep underground

深埋在地下的核废物

2 go underground SECRETto start doing something secretly, or hide in a secret place 转入地下；隐匿

The ANC was forced to go underground when its leaders were arrested.

领导人被捕之后，非洲国民大会被迫转入地下。

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go underground• A few days later, Valenzuela went underground.• But some of the activity has gone underground.• If company policies are too stringent or punitive, couples simply go underground.• Instead of changing its policies, however, the government went underground.• The redevelopment proposals put forward for the site at first envisaged that all the shopping should go underground.• Delvalle went underground but continued to be recognized by the United States.• Like the Sleepers of Ephesus, ideas go underground for a few centuries to re-emerge when times are more propitious.• Fresh air bases were set up in Bank Mine and a team of brave and dedicated doctors went underground to assist.• Denkins went underground to escape police.

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underground• Of this amount, about 30 percent can be mined at the surface; the balance is underground.• The industry is now investigating sites in which to dump nuclear waste underground.• Three of the stations are underground, and the last two at surface level.• Over the next few days, though, the signs of what was happening underground became more severe.• There is now a through route underground between Gaping Gill and Ingleborough Cave but only for brave men.• The insect spends most of its life underground, eating roots and stems.• Dining: Restaurants are open in the visitor center and underground, near the Big Room.• When he was making an underground survey of the New Almaden mine he stayed underground for twenty hours at a stretch.

deep underground• After 50 years the waste will probably be buried deep underground.• Darkness seemed to engulf them as they disappeared, swallowed up in a kind of tunnel way, running deep underground.• Nervous trembles ached in her legs and the floor was vibrating fractionally with the movement of some train deep underground.• Rivers have been restored to healthy levels and, more importantly, this rain is at last reaching the water-permeable rocks deep underground.• Until now it was assumed that sites deep underground provided a stable environment for buried waste.• A notice informed the public that this was the deepest Underground station in London, three hundred stairs to the bottom.

un·der·ground3 /ˈʌndəɡraʊnd $ -ər-/ noun

the Underground

a) British EnglishBrETTT a railway system under the ground 地下铁路，地铁 SYN American English subway

b) PPSECRETan illegal group working in secret against the rulers of a country 〔反政府的〕地下组织，秘密团体

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the Underground• Did Hollywood and the underground film-makers, in particular, hold any responsibility for such behaviour?• If it is chosen, the underground site could start receiving canisters of waste in 2010, Olds said.• In 1971 the Pelham Street premises were threatened with demolition as London Transport wanted to re-develop the underground station.• Not that the early issues had learnt anything from the underground.• The environmental coalition also has proposed some type of barrier to prevent further expansion of the underground plume.• Among snatches of conversation, both of us remember his referring to the underground as being rather like hell.

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underground• A desire to remind Rome of its arrogance remained latent in the Celtic underground.• His father, Wei Zilin, worked in the Communist underground in the 1930s.• No way do the charts tell the whole story - the new underground is of much more interest and relevance.• I found that I was a natural boss of a prison underground.• But the scale of recruitment to the revolutionary underground suggests that it can not be explained in terms of individual maladjustment.• But out of necessity, the underground continued to flourish.