drill

1. N-COUNT A drill is a tool or machine that you use for making holes. 鉆孔機(jī)

...a dentist's drill. …一把牙鉆。

2. N-COUNT A drill is a routine exercise or activity, in which people practise what they should do in dangerous situations. 操練

...a fire drill. …一場消防演習(xí)。

3. V-T/V-I When you drill into something or drill a hole in something, you make a hole in it using a drill. 鉆 (孔); 打 (眼)

He drilled into the wall of Lili's bedroom. 他在麗莉臥室的墻上打孔。

4. V-I When people drill for oil or water, they search for it by drilling deep holes in the ground or in the bottom of the sea. 鉆探 (石油或地下水源)

There have been proposals to drill for more oil. 有人提出了鉆探更多石油的建議。

5. N-VAR A drill is repeated training for a group of people, especially soldiers, so that they can do something quickly and efficiently. 訓(xùn)練

The Marines carried out landing exercises in a drill that includes 18 ships and 90 aircraft. 海軍陸戰(zhàn)隊(duì)在一場軍事訓(xùn)練中進(jìn)行了登陸練習(xí)，包括18艘軍艦和90架飛機(jī)。

6. V to teach by rigorous exercises or training (通過嚴(yán)格訓(xùn)練來)教學(xué)

7. N a machine for planting seeds in rows or depositing fertilizer 條播機(jī)

8. V to plant (seeds) by means of a drill 條播

9. N a hard-wearing twill-weave cotton cloth, used for uniforms, etc 粗斜紋布

10. N an Old World monkey, Mandrillus leucophaeus, of W Africa, related to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly coloured (西非)鬼狒