tunnel

tunnel

Passage traversant une colline ou passant sous terre ou sous l’eau, où les véhicules peuvent circuler.

En anglais simple : A passage through a hill or under the ground or water that vehicles can travel through.

• The car entered the tunnel.
• We drove through a tunnel under the river.
• Both tunnels were closed to traffic.

Expressions courantes : road tunnel, tunnel entrance, drive through tunnel

tunnel

Passage sous terre ou sous l’eau, ou à travers une colline.

En anglais simple : A passage under the ground or water, or through a hill.

• The tunnel was dark.
• Prisoners dug a tunnel beneath the wall.
• The train passed through several tunnels.

Synonymes : underground passage

Expressions courantes : underground tunnel, railway tunnel, escape tunnel

creuser un tunnel

Creuser un passage à travers quelque chose ou en dessous.

En anglais simple : To dig a passage through or under something.

• The rabbits tunneled into the soil.
• Workers are tunneling under the river.
• They tunneled through the mountain for months.

Comment l'utiliser : tunnel under something (The prisoners tunneled under the fence.); tunnel through something (Workers tunneled through solid rock.)

Synonymes : burrow

Expressions courantes : tunnel under something, tunnel through rock, tunnel into something