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To search deeply and carefully into something in order to learn more about it — you can delve into a subject, a mystery, or someone's past. It's a slightly formal word, common in writing about research or investigation. The very old, literal meaning of this word was simply 'to dig,' which is almost never used today.
深入探究、鑽研
組成From a very old English word meaning 'to dig.'
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Delvename
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A surname from Old English.
delveverb詞源 1/dɛlv/
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literaryTo dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.
- Delve of convenient depth your thrashing floor.
- I got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might—it scraped the coffin; I fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws; I was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that I heard a sigh from some one above, close at the edge of the grave, and bending down.
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literaryTo dig; to excavate.
- And then they made an oratory behind the altar, and would have dolven for to have laid the body in that oratory […]
- They dolve a grave beneath the arrow / And covered it with brere.
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literaryTo search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out
- I cannot delve him to the root.
- She was intensely eager to delve into the mystery of Mr. Joplin and his brief case.
delvenoun詞源 2/dɛlv/
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archaicliteraryA pit or den.
- the wise Merlin whylome wont (they say) / To make his wonne, low vnderneath the ground, / In a deepe delue, farre from the vew of day [...].
- I put the clods on top the delve and gave it all a good thumping down with my feet.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。