1. We are excavating near the lecture hall to see what types of artifacts we find—things people used in the past that got buried when the campus was constructed. 我们在演讲大厅附近挖掘，看看能发现什么类型的手工艺品——就是人们之前用过的，在建造校园时被埋掉的东西。
2. He then proceeded to teach himself geology, and when he was twenty-four, he went to work for the company that was excavating the Somerset Coal Canal in the south of England. 后来，他又自学了地质学；24岁的时候，他开始为那家挖掘英格兰南部的萨默塞特煤炭运河的公司工作。
3. That twenty-one ceramic dog figurines were discovered during the excavating of a 1,000-year-old Hohokam village in Tempe, Arizona, has nearly doubled the number of these artifacts known to exist. 在对亚利桑那州坦佩的霍霍坎村进行挖掘时，发现了21件陶制狗像，这使得已知的狗像数量增加了近一倍。
4. A new Danish expedition is again excavating the site in annual summer digs. 一支新的丹麦考察队又在对那个地方进行年度的夏季挖掘。
5. This impact released an enormous amount of energy, excavating a crater about twice as large as the lunar crater Tycho. 这次撞击释放了大量的能量，挖出了一个大约有月球上的第谷陨石坑两倍大的陨石坑。
