Fathom

(noun.) (mining) a unit of volume (equal to 6 cubic feet) used in measuring bodies of ore.

(noun.) a linear unit of measurement (equal to 6 feet) for water depth.

(verb.) measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line.

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• Of all wells, from one fathom to six or seven, the water flew out at the top with a vehement motion. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Let me do myself the honour of making you acquainted with her; after which, I will leave you to fathom for yourself--if you can. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• One never knows what she has, sir: she is so cunning: it is not in mortal discretion to fathom her craft. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• At some loss to fathom Mr Boffin's notions of a tight will, Lightwood felt his way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Your censor-pencil scored it with condemnatory lines, whose signification I strove vainly to fathom. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Who is to fathom it? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• He could not fathom them. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• It is shown that at the depth of 43,528 fathoms below the surface of the earth, air is only one fourth less heavy than mercury. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• He went down to his room, and buried John Harmon many additional fathoms deep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• We apply our measure to uniform extension, meting out the waters by fathoms or space by the sun's diame ter, and even subject time to arbitrary divisions. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Thus John Rokesmith in the morning, and it buried John Harmon still many fathoms deeper than he had been buried in the night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Down, down with him, fifty fathoms down; his struggles grew fainter and fainter, until they wholly ceased. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• On deep five fathoms, and anchored fast to the bottom. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The houses sunk outright, thirty or forty fathoms deep. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Fancying you to have fathomed his secret. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The scenes that followed, convinced her that she had not yet fathomed the obscure gulph into which she had plunged. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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