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underground English

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underground

of or about being under the ground Underground water is drying up. secret or not well known The underground music scene is really interesting. Underground drug sales have increased over the last year.

underground

being or moving under the ground Let's go underground. It's safer down there. The new trains will run underground. If you go underground, you keep your activities secret.

underground

The underground is a system of trains that runs mostly under the ground. The London underground is a great way to move about the city.

underground

(= belowground) under the level of the ground belowground storage areas underground caverns beneath the surface of the earth water flowing underground in or into hiding or secret operation the organization was driven underground a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force (= metro, tube, subway system, subway) an electric railway operating below the surface of the ground (usually in a city) in Paris the subway system is called the 'metro' and in London it is called the 'tube' or the 'underground' (= clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner, secret, surreptitious, undercover) conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods clandestine intelligence operations cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines hole-and-corner intrigue secret missions a secret agent secret sales of arms surreptitious mobilization of troops an undercover investigation underground resistance

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Simple sentences

I dreamed about our town having an underground.
You will get there more quickly by underground.
They are hiding underground.
London is such a large city that visitors must use buses and the underground railway to get about.
Tom stood on the platform in Westminster Underground Station.
Tom slept peacefully as the underground train rattled on its way.
The resistance movement has gone underground.
He likes to explore underground caves.
Where's the nearest underground station?
Seek shelter in a fortified, windowless room, preferably underground.
It was too bad that we had to take the subway home after the concert, because the underground rattling and roaring destroyed almost all of our musical impressions.
I live within spitting distance of the underground station.
The hospital for this Mars colony is underground.
The Soldier climbed up the tree, let himself down through the hole, and found himself standing, as the Witch had said, underground in the large hall, where the three hundred lamps were burning.
There are people who think pineapples grow underground.
In Dutch folklore, kabouters are tiny people who live underground.
Tom parked his car in an underground parking garage.
Tom has gone underground.
His house is near the underground.
His house is near the underground station.
Where's the underground station?
We can get there by underground.

Movie subtitles

We go now to the underground home of a sorceress in the year of the Lord 1488.
The great machines, far underground, yet high above the workers' city.
Those who are far from home can take refuge in the underground railways.
It's rather like the rush hour on the underground.
Have you been reading any underground books?
Notjust an old fella lonesome underground.
Frank James is dead and buried and underground.
Underground, like everywhere else.
You know the leader of the underground movement in Paris, in Prague in Brussels, in Amsterdam, in Oslo, in Belgrade, in Athens.
My friends in the underground tell me that you've quite a record.
Please don't go to the underground meeting.
The Warsaw underground striking back. sabotage, destruction.
This man is carrying instructions to the underground in Warsaw.
If he delivers them. to the Gestapo instead of the underground. it means, not only the death of hundreds of people. but the destruction of our organization in Eastern Europe.
There should be a corridor somewhere leading underground.
The access to the underground hall. lf you fear discovery, avoid it from now on.
The access to the underground hall!
Meanwhile, in the underground.
From underground, at SmoIny.
Yes, thank you. It's rather like the rush hour on the underground.
To the Underground, on my way to nowhere.
I'm goin' to the Underground.
You know the leader of the underground movement in Paris, in Prague in brussels, in Amsterdam, in Oslo, in Belgrade, in Athens.
It's the underground world.
Not just an old fella lonesome underground.
The underground station.
Oh, the man in the underground?
You know the leader of the underground movement in Paris, in Prague Brussels, Amsterdam Oslo, Belgrade, Athens.
My friends in the underground tell me that you have quite a record.
Please don't go to the underground meeting tonight.
Sztaluga will then inform the underground.
Well, here's the report. and that's the end of the underground movement.

News and current affairs

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Iran began enriching uranium at a pilot centrifuge plant last August, and is constructing larger underground enrichment facilities.
Better land-management practices (the re-planting of degraded forests, for example) can recharge underground water aquifers.
When 52 people were killed in a suicide bombing on the London Underground the following year, the British, too, reacted with relative calm, having lived through years of Irish terrorist violence in the 1970's.
This will require a shift to renewable energy sources such as solar power, and perhaps nuclear power, as well as new technologies to capture carbon dioxide at power plants and then to dispose of the carbon dioxide in safe underground deposits.
It would almost certainly be rebuilt, presumably in underground, fortified sites that would make future attacks far more difficult to carry out.
In a matter of weeks, Bank Underground already has established itself as a fertile source of provocative ideas.
In its short life, Bank Underground has already proved its worth.
The captured carbon is then pumped into underground storage sites such as empty oil fields and other suitable locations.
All of the key aspects of the technology - capturing the carbon dioxide, putting it into pipelines for shipment, and then depositing it underground - have already been demonstrated, but they have not yet been tried, and proven, on a large scale.
Yet partisan war will burn, like a fire underground.
CCS technology captures carbon dioxide at the source of its emission, compresses it, and stores it permanently underground.
Bush and Blair talked repeatedly about stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, massive underground and mobile units to produce or launch such weapons, and active programs to obtain nuclear weapons.
Israeli leaders were aware of Hamas's buildup of medium-range missiles, mostly smuggled through Sinai in underground tunnels, but continue to argue that, absent the siege, Iran and others would supply more (and more sophisticated) weapons.
Similarly, engineers have developed ways to capture the carbon dioxide that results from burning coal in power plants and store it safely underground.
Journalists adopted tactics of underground publication, in the best tradition of East European samizdat.
Water flows on the surface and underground.
In the meantime, I plan to spend more time underground.
Not surprisingly, the creation of a transnational Islamic political movement, boosted by thousands of underground jihadi Web sites, has blown back into the Kingdom.
Most Greeks are taking whatever action they can to avoid the government's likely insatiable thirst for higher tax revenues, with wealthy individuals shifting money abroad and ordinary people migrating to the underground economy.
By driving users underground, criminalization contributes to a deepening public-health crisis.
China's booming economy has brought growing interaction between China and the Mekong's underground economies.
Fang Jue, a reformer who served a four-year term for economic crimes, and Jiang Surang, an underground Catholic priest sentenced to six years for illegally publishing Bibles, were both punished in this way.
By humiliating, degrading, and outlawing any Islamic tendency that disagreed with the prevailing dogma, authoritarian regimes did not eliminate pluralism, but merely sent it underground.
Today's technology allows that underground to speak and meet.
Far from disappearing, the repressed are returning from underground in grotesque forms to haunt the world they grew up in.

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