English主要词典
tunnel
Universal Words
noun, verb
noun
1 a passage built underground, for example to allow a road or railway/railroad to go through a hill, under a river, etc:
a railway / railroad tunnel * the Channel Tunnel
seealsoWINDTUNNEL
2 an underground passage made by an animal
IDIOMS see LIGHTn.
verb (-ll-, AmE also -l-) [+adv./prep.] to dig a tunnel under or through the ground:
[V] The engineers had to tunnel through solid rock. * [VN] The rescuers tunnelled their way in to the trapped miners.
