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·Only paltry sums are available for excavating and even less is available for publishing the results and preserving the sites once excavated.
只有很少的钱可以支持挖掘工作，而可以用来公布结果和保存曾经被挖掘的遗址的钱就更少了。
5·"We found relics of the craftsmen's quarters and firing places and iron and metal artifacts," says Ernst Pohl, a German archaeologist who spent years excavating the site.
“我们已发现工匠的住所遗迹，还有烧火的地方，以及钢铁工艺品”，恩斯特·波尔(Ernst Pohl)说。他是德国的考古学家，在现场挖掘已经有几年时间。