delve
Word family verbdelvenoundelver
delve /delv/ verb [intransitiveI] 1 to try to find more information about someone or something 探索,探究,查考delve into research that delves deeply into this issue 对这个问题的深入研究
2 LOOK FOR[always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] to search for something by putting your hand deeply into a bag, container etc 〔把手伸到袋子、容器等的深处〕搜寻,翻找delve into/in He delved into his pocket and brought out a notebook. 他伸手在口袋里翻找,拿出一本笔记本来。
delve into/in• The man took a step back, delving into his heavy pocket.• It will highlight 1,000 courses, some obscure, and delve into history, trivia and tradition.• His response is to abandon the troubled human mind, and delve into the animal world instead.• Yet here the counsellor faces the problem of whether to delve into the difficult past, or to leave it alone.• As I delved into the history of pentecostalism and began visiting all the pentecostal churches I could, some discoveries surprised me.• Without delving into the legal niceties too deeply, the procedure of a public inquiry generally takes the following form.• But I think we must delve into the past for some link with what is happening here today. Origin delve Old English delfan “to dig”