Gutter
['gʌtə] or ['gʌtɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a channel along the eaves or on the roof; collects and carries away rainwater.
(noun.) a tool for gutting fish.
(noun.) a worker who guts things (fish or buildings or cars etc.).
(noun.) misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; 'his career was in the gutter'; 'all that work went down the sewer'; 'pensions are in the toilet'.
(verb.) provide with gutters; 'gutter the buildings'.
(verb.) wear or cut gutters into; 'The heavy rain guttered the soil'.
(verb.) flow in small streams; 'Tears guttered down her face'.
(verb.) burn unsteadily, feebly, or low; flicker; 'The cooling lava continued to gutter toward lower ground'.
詹尼弗编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.
(n.) A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water.
(n.) Any narrow channel or groove; as, a gutter formed by erosion in the vent of a gun from repeated firing.
(v. t.) To cut or form into small longitudinal hollows; to channel.
(v. t.) To supply with a gutter or gutters.
(v. i.) To become channeled, as a candle when the flame flares in the wind.
贝弗莉录入
同义词及近义词：
n. Channel, conduit.
德怀特手打
解释:
n. a channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away water: a channel for water: (print.) one of a number of pieces of wood or metal grooved in the centre used to separate the pages of type in a form: (pl.) mud dirt (Scot.).—v.t. to cut or form into small hollows.—v.i. to become hollowed: to run down in drops as a candle.—ns. Gutt′er-blood a low-born person; Gutt′er-snipe a neglected child a street Arab.—adj. Guttif′erous exuding gum or resin.
手打:西摩
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a gutter, is a sign of degradation. You will be the cause of unhappiness to others. To find articles of value in a gutter, your right to certain property will be questioned.
欧内斯廷编辑
娱乐性解释：
A school in which we may study the dregs of humanity or read the reflection of the stars.
阿蒂整理
例句:
- Yours is not the nature to find pleasure in gutter-raking. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Gutter, says Phil. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- That's the trouble--it was too easy for you--you got reckless--thought you could turn me inside out, and chuck me in the gutter like an empty purse. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Water was running in the gutter. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- On the leveling strips at the extreme side of where the bed is to lie, a 3 x 1-inch maple strip is laid, widest side downward, with its finished one-inch edge nearest to the gutter. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Here is a man, sir, who was found, when a baby, in the gutter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- From this center gutter debouches branch to each of the pockets. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- 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 city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched addition to the gutters. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- As the pins are knocked off into the gutters, or the pit, the pin boy picks them up and lays them flat on their sides into the pockets at the top of the machine. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- There are ingenious devices, termed the return gutters and convertible rails, which are worthy of description. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The gutters are the concave boards that extend the complete length of the alley, from the foul line to the pit, on both sides of the bed. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- I used to do so, on the gutters, when I was a boy,' replied Mr. Pickwick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The candles flared and guttered before her, and the wax ex-votos hung about the shrine. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Because the candle was not guttered. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
珍妮特编辑