英语词汇“example_english_digging-hole”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

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It could be minimised by development and the better use of tunnelling and micro-tunnelling, as opposed to digging holes in streets.
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The evidence available at the moment does not support the claim that protection would be afforded by digging holes 80 or 90 feet underground.
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Plenty of people are digging holes in the road already without adding more unnecessarily.
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We cannot just keep digging holes in the ground and piling our rubbish into them.
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Everything must be done, but nothing will be achieved if we work on the principle of merely digging holes just to fill them up again.
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To pay men wages for digging holes and filling them up again is a form of employment, but obviously wrong as national policy.
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Obviously you cannot make underground railways without digging holes.
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You had hundreds of people calling themselves unemployed, simply digging holes in the ground to no purpose.
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Was it just a form of digging holes, a slightly more sophisticated variation on the 1930s ploy?
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There is nothing in the nature of digging holes and filling them up again in such a policy as this.
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I was also glad that digging holes in the road would be subject to the code of practice.
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It is possibly insulting to leave the idea that digging holes and filling them in is the sort of work which is good enough.
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We have heard of the wastefulness of digging holes and filling them up again.
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I do not mean plans for digging holes and filling them up again, but plans for the enrichment of our national life.
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Any miner knows that to work such a pit is merely a matter of digging holes and filling them up again, doing no good to anybody.
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What we require, therefore, is to see that any work that is done is useful productive work—not digging holes one day and filling them up the next.
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It would still be a good thing to put those engineers on doing skilled work they understand rather than digging holes and filling them up again.
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If that be so, is it not just as wasteful as digging holes and filling them up again, and could not some better means be found?
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Can the people who are digging holes in the roads be asked to work at the appropriate time so that the task can be completed as quickly as possible?
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