Ditch
[dɪtʃ]
解释:
(noun.) a long narrow excavation in the earth.
(noun.) any small natural waterway.
(verb.) crash or crash-land; 'ditch a car'; 'ditch a plane'.
(verb.) make an emergency landing on water.
(verb.) forsake; 'ditch a lover'.
乔斯林编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.
(n.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
(v. t.) To dig a ditch or ditches in; to drain by a ditch or ditches; as, to ditch moist land.
(v. t.) To surround with a ditch.
(v. t.) To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.
(v. i.) To dig a ditch or ditches.
伊夫林整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Trench.[2]. Rivulet, brook.
校对:塞尔玛
解释:
n. a trench dug in the ground: any long narrow receptacle for water.—v.i. to make a ditch or ditches.—v.t. to dig a ditch in or around: to drain by ditches.—ns. Ditch′-dog (Shak.) a dead dog rotting in a ditch; Ditch′er a ditch-maker.
艾琳校对
娱乐性解释：
To dream of falling in a ditch, denotes degradation and personal loss; but if you jump over it, you will live down any suspicion of wrong-doing.
整理:尼古拉斯
例句:
- I was born in a ditch, and my mother ran away from me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- So far I had seen no one and I sat down by some bushes along the bank of the ditch and took off my shoes and emptied them of water. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Select a dry, shady spot; dig a ditch for carrying off the waste water, and over it place a lath-work. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- At that point, however, as it happens, there is a broadish ditch, moist at the bottom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- The fat Dissenter who had given out the hymn was left sitting in the ditch. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- He is as sweet as honey, and I am as dull as ditch-water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- An average size ocean liner pays about $5,000 for the privilege of sailing through this great ditch. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- These ditches, however, were not over eight or ten feet in width. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, ditches, and little gardens, and to present the aspect of a rather dull retirement. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- This took us over several ditches breast deep in water and grown up with water plants. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Let him be prepared to be assailed by the odours of undrained gutters, ditches, and roads called streets, and escape, if he can, stumbling and falling into them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- In the meantime workmen had been busy digging ditches and laying mains through the district that Edison intended to light. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- We could look across the plain and see farmhouses and the rich green farms with their irrigation ditches and the mountains to the north. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
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