plumb

• vt. 使垂直；探測，探索
• n. 垂直；鉛錘
• adv. 恰恰，正；垂直地
• vi. 當管子工
• adj. 垂直的
• n. (Plumb)人名；(英)普拉姆

來自拉丁語plumbum,鉛，鉛球，可能借自希臘語molybdos,鉛，詞源同molybdenum.後用於 指測量垂直度的鉛球，鉛錘，引申詞義探索，鑽研，以及副詞詞義恰好，正好等。

plumb

plumb: [13] Plumb comes via Old French *plombe from Latin plumbum ‘lead’, a word of uncertain origin. Of its modern English uses, the verbal ‘sound the depths’ comes from the use of a line weighted with lead (a plumb line) to measure the depth of water and the adverbial ‘exactly’ from the use of a similar line to determine verticality. Related words in English include aplomb; plumber [14] (originally simply a ‘worker in lead’, but eventually, since water pipes were once made of lead, a ‘pipe-layer’); plummet [14] (a diminutive form coined in Old French); and plunge [14] (from the Vulgar Latin derivative *plumbicāre ‘sound with a plumb’).
=> aplomb, plumber, plummet, plunge

plumb (n.)

"lead hung on a string to show the vertical line," early 14c., from Old French *plombe, plomee "sounding lead," and directly from Late Latin *plumba, originally plural of Latin plumbum "lead (the metal), lead ball; pipe; pencil," a word of unknown origin, related to Greek molybdos "lead" (dialectal bolimos) and perhaps from an extinct Mediterranean language, perhaps Iberian.

plumb (v.)

early 15c., "to sink" (like lead), from plumb (n.). Meaning "take soundings with a plumb" is first recorded 1560s; figurative sense of "to get to the bottom of" is from 1590s. Related: Plumbed; plumbing.

plumb (adj.)

"perpendicular, vertical," mid-15c., from plumb (n.). The notion of "exact measurement" led to extended sense of "completely, downright" (1748), sometimes spelled plump, plum, or plunk.

1. The hotel is set plumb in the middle of the high street.

賓館正好坐落在商街的中段。

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2. Please come and plumb in my new central heating system.

請來幫我接通新的中央供暖係統的水管。

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3. She learned to wire and plumb the house herself.

她學會了自己給房子拉接電線、敷設水管。

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4. She never abandoned her attempts to plumb my innermost emotions.

她從未放棄過探究我內心深處情感的嚐試。

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5. They frequently plumb the depths of loneliness, humiliation and despair.

他們常常陷入孤獨、屈辱和絕望的深淵。

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