She was helping the dragon enlarge the passageway, carving out the ceiling as it struggled upward toward the fresher air, away from the shrieking and clanking goblins.

她助巨龙扩大通道，开洞顶，让它冲向上面新鲜的空气，离开那些尖叫着的丁当作响的妖精们。

Houde and his fellow faculty members dug up the fossil in late May.

侯德和同事们五月下旬开了这块化石。

He's a farmer in Tennessee who took 910-pound pumpkin, carved it and set sail.

他是来自田纳西州的一个农民。他开了910磅重的南瓜，然后扬帆启航。

Ripping up the compacted ground will let the trees they plant put down roots.

人们把夯实的土地开，他们种的树就可以生根了。

If there are a lot of weeds or if you want to create new garden beds, you can cover the existing vegetation rather than dig it up.

如果有很多杂草，或者如果想创造新的花园床，可以覆盖现有的植被，而不是开它。

Environmentalists say the pollution worsened in the early 1930s, when a canal was dug and connected the lake with the Caribbean Sea.

环保人士表示，20世纪30年代初，当一条运河被开，将该湖与加勒比海连接起来时，污染加剧了。

SCRATCH the surface of the planet and the chances that hydrocarbons will spew forth appear to grow by the day.

开地表层，碳氢化合物立即喷薄而出，这种情况越来越常见。

They started digging and there you were. You were stabilized at the field hospital before they could bring you here.

他们马上开坑发现了。他们把送到这里之前，战地医院的病情已经稳定下来。

It was fortunate that the family didn't try to dig up the fossil because that could destroy the specimen; they did the right thing by calling someone who would know what to do.

幸运的是，这家人并没有开化石，因为这可能会破坏标本。他们做了正确的事情，打电话向知道如何处理的人告知。

And as soon as the trenches are open, men, mourners come. They lower the body bags in.

一旦沟渠开，送葬者就会过来，把尸袋放进去。

The others just laughed, but the two boys began to move away more of the sand.

别的孩子只是笑，可那两个男孩开始开更多的沙子。

And they took up some of the concrete and there was a human skeleton right there.

他们开一些水泥，那儿就有一具人类的骨架。

They hid the paths so that the boys might have the fun of digging new ones.

它们把小路藏了起来，男孩们高兴地开了一条新路。

" That's th' good rich earth, " he answered, digging away.

“那是肥沃的土地，”他边回答边开。

Do I dig under you, go around you, leap over you?

我是开一条路到那里，绕过，还是跳过？

If I dig me a grave in the river-bed, shall they not tear it up?

如果我河床上了个坟墓，他们难道不会把它开吗？

An " excavation" is a place where you dig into the ground.

掘是指开地面的地方。

Couldn't you just dig up the dirt, throw the body down?

不能直接开泥土，把尸体扔下去吗？

In the 1990s, researchers exhumed the graves where the men are buried in San Vicente to try to conclusively link DNA samples with Butch and Sundance's known descendants, but the DNA does not match.

20世纪90年代，研究人员开了位于圣维森特的两人墓地，图通过DNA样本与巴奇和松迪安的已知后代进行比对，确认关联性，但结果发现DNA并不匹配。

And then once your first shovel goes in the ground, it could take anywhere between two and a further five years to create a large scale mining operation.

而一旦第一铲土被开，创建一个大规模的采矿作业可能需要两到再额外五年的时间。