Gate
[geɪt] or [ɡet]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a movable barrier in a fence or wall.
(noun.) a computer circuit with several inputs but only one output that can be activated by particular combinations of inputs.
(noun.) passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
(noun.) total admission receipts at a sports event.
(verb.) restrict (school boys') movement to the dormitory or campus as a means of punishment.
(verb.) control with a valve or other device that functions like a gate.
(verb.) supply with a gate; 'The house was gated'.
胡安娜校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A large door or passageway in the wall of a city, of an inclosed field or place, or of a grand edifice, etc.; also, the movable structure of timber, metal, etc., by which the passage can be closed.
(n.) An opening for passage in any inclosing wall, fence, or barrier; or the suspended framework which closes or opens a passage. Also, figuratively, a means or way of entrance or of exit.
(n.) A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.
(n.) The places which command the entrances or access; hence, place of vantage; power; might.
(n.) In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
(n.) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mold; the ingate.
(n.) The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece.
(v. t.) To supply with a gate.
(v. t.) To punish by requiring to be within the gates at an earlier hour than usual.
(n.) A way; a path; a road; a street (as in Highgate).
(n.) Manner; gait.
編輯:朱尔斯
解釋/意思:
n. (Scot.) a way path: manner of doing esp. in adverbial phrases like 'this gate ' 'any gate ' 'some gate.'
n. (Spens.) a goat.
n. a passage into a city enclosure or any large building: a narrow opening or defile: a frame in the entrance into any enclosure: an entrance.—v.t. to supply with a gate: at Oxford and Cambridge to punish by requiring the offender to be within the college gates by a certain hour.—adj. Gā′ted punished with such restriction.—ns. Gate′-fine the fine imposed for disobedience to such orders; Gate′-house (archit.) a building over or near the gate giving entrance to a city abbey college &c.; Gate′-keep′er Gate′man one who watches over the opening and shutting of a gate.—adj. Gate′less not having a gate.—ns. Gate′-mon′ey the money taken for entrance to an athletic or other exhibition sometimes simply 'gate;' Gate′-tow′er a tower built beside or over a gate; Gate′-vein the great abdominal vein; Gate′way the way through a gate: the gate itself: any entrance.—Gate of justice a gate as of a city temple &c. where a sovereign or judge sat to dispense justice; Gates of death a phrase expressing the near approach of death.—Break gates at Oxford and Cambridge to enter college after the prescribed hour; Ivory gate in poetical imagery the semi-transparent gate of the house of sleep through which dreams appear distorted into pleasant and delusive shapes; Stand in the gate (B.) to occupy a position of defence.
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娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream of seeing or passing through a gate, foretells that alarming tidings will reach you soon of the absent. Business affairs will not be encouraging. To see a closed gate, inability to overcome present difficulties is predicted. To lock one, denotes successful enterprises and well chosen friends. A broken one, signifies failure and discordant surroundings. To be troubled to get through one, or open it, denotes your most engrossing labors will fail to be remunerative or satisfactory. To swing on one, foretells you will engage in idle and dissolute pleasures.
手打:洛伊斯
例句/造句/用法:
- A small green court was the whole of its demesne in front; and a neat wicket gate admitted them into it. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- At the turn of the lane he saw Miss Blenker standing at the gate and waving the pink parasol. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- What about the gate in the middle of it? 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The garden gate was open to the lane, and I went in at once to inquire my way. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The turnkeys in the prison lobby took off their hats as it passed through, and in another moment the heavy gate closed behind it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I had never known him to pass the garden-gate before, but on this occasion he came into the house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Having completed these arrangements, he walked up to the gate, to read the bill. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The gates of pleasure now were closed upon me. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Helstone and Moore trotted forth from the mill-yard gates, at the head of their very small company, in the best possible spirits. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- About ten minutes after, the driver got down and opened a pair of gates: we passed through, and they clashed to behind us. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- And I suppose those gates would suck him down? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Within the gates Lestrade met us, his face flushed with victory, his manner grossly triumphant. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Vast arches, that may have been the gates of the city, are built in the same way. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- A slave rushed into the dining hall to cry that a great concourse of people was swarming through the palace gates. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
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