tun‧nel 1 W3 / tʌnl / 名词 [可数名词]

1 a passage that has been dug under the ground for cars, trains etc to go through :

a railway tunnel

the Channel Tunnel (= between England and France )

2 a passage under the ground that animals have dug to live in

COLLOCATIONS

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + tunnel

a two-mile/1500-foot-long etc tunnel A 250-metre-long tunnel provides access to all parts of the development.

a dark tunnel He peered uneasily down the dark tunnel at the end of the platform.

a narrow tunnel She ran down the narrow tunnel leading to the exit.

an underground tunnel The prisoners escaped through an underground tunnel.

a rail/railway tunnel the 15km long Gotthard railway tunnel

a road tunnel a road tunnel through the mountains

the Channel Tunnel (= the tunnel under the sea between England and France ) They went by train via the Channel Tunnel.

短语

the roof of a tunnel The roof of the tunnel was a foot above his head.

the entrance to a tunnel/tunnel entrance To the right was the entrance to a second tunnel.

动词

dig a tunnel Burglars had dug a tunnel under the building in an attempted raid.

build a tunnel The contractors will start building the tunnel next month.

a tunnel leads somewhere The Greenwich Foot Tunnel leads under the RiverThames.