通过钻探，地质学家可以在不同深度测量。
drilling is due to start early next year.钻探将于明年早些时候开工。
The team is still drilling.钻探队还在钻探。
exploratory drilling for oil钻井勘探石油
After drilling for several weeks they finally struck oil.在钻探了几个星期后,他们终于发现了油矿.
He was rudely awakened by the sound of drilling.他突然被钻孔的声音吵醒.
For those uninitiated in scientific ocean drilling, the previous record was a little over 4 km.对于那些不熟悉科学大洋钻探的人来说，之前的纪录是4千米多一点。
A group of senators plans to filibuster a measure that would permit drilling in Alaska.参议员们试图阻挠一项允许在阿拉斯加州钻探石油的议案获得通过。
drilling regulations, too, have been loosened to speed the development of the fields.钻探条例亦已放宽，以加速油田的开发。
drilling will continue on the site to assess the dimensions of the new oilfield.该处的钻探工作将继续下去，以便估测新油田的面积。
Rescue workers are therefore drilling a hole on the north side of the mine.因此营救工人正在矿井北侧钻孔.
Yuki is working up an in - home phonics program slated for Thursdays , and I'm drilling her on English conversation at dinnertime.Yuki每周四还有一次家庭语音课.我在晚餐时训练她的英语口语.
They had accidentally damaged a gas pipe while drilling.打钻时，他们不小心钻破了一根燃气管道。
This diagnosis has since been confirmed by deep - sea drilling.这种特征后来为 深海 钻探所证实.
The same principle was used in a method of drilling in oilfields.油田的钻探方法采用了同样的原理.
