English Dictionary

subterrain

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

(geology) The bedrock or rock layer that lies beneath the soil and superficial features of an area. / A cave or underground room. / An underground region. / An underlying basis or undercurrent.

日本語の意味

地下の岩盤（地層の下にある基盤となる岩） / 地下洞窟または地下室 / 地下の区域 / 土台や基盤となるもの、あるいは裏に潜む勢力や流れ

Engineers drilled through the subterrain to assess the stability of the proposed foundation.

技術者たちは計画中の基礎の安定性を評価するため、基盤岩を掘削した。

意味（1）

(geology) The bedrock or rock layer that lies beneath the soil and superficial features of an area.

In this way at least a crude picture of the subterrain can be built up during the survey.

意味（2）

A cave or underground room.

Subterrains have been found in almost all the nations of antiquity; but philosophers have put themselves to little trouble to discover the motives for making these excavations, which were much varied in their forms.

意味（3）

An underground region.

The land under Rabbit seems to move, with the addition of yet another citizen to the subterrain of the dead.

意味（4）

An underlying basis or undercurrent.

The roots of the misogyny, homophobia, and anti-Semitism that indelibly mark Modernism are to be found in the subterrain of changing sexual and political mores that constituted belle époque Faubourg society, and it is here that the story of these women begins — in Edith Wharton's drawing room.

subterrains （ plural ）