One way to picture unearth: earth is the ground, and un- takes something back out of it. So the word marks the moment a thing that was under the soil — or under years of dust, or under silence — comes up into the light where someone can look at it. Two things are always true: it was out of sight for a long time, and someone had to go looking.
From the word’s history
The source entry gives the make-up of the word directly: un- + earth. The modern picture is still the parts of the word doing their plain job.
封包裡的詞源記載很直接：un- 加 earth。今天的用法其實就是這兩個部件照字面在工作——把東西從土裡拿出來。
Wiktionary entry for unearth, kaikki extract supplied in this packet: 'From un- + earth.' (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:671923927:19868)
登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
unearthverb/ʌnˈɜː(ɹ)θ/
- 1
To drive or draw from the earth.
- to unearth a fox or a badger
- 2
To dig up.
- Modern archaeological excavations have unearthed the remains of a large number of ancient cities that lay buried deep under the sands for more than a thousand years, along the trade route from Bactria to China passing between the Tien Shan mountains in the north and the desert of Taklamakan in the south.
- Despite all the evidence confirming the existence of the Protheans, little is known about their culture and society. From time to time, dig sites will yield new clues, but after 50,000 years of decay, little of value is unearthed.
- 3
To uncover or find; to bring out from concealment.
- Near-synonym: discover
- to unearth a secret
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。