Gutter
['gʌtə] or ['gʌtɚ]
解釋/意思:
(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'.
詹尼弗編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
贝弗莉錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Channel, conduit.
德怀特手打
解釋/意思:
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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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.
欧内斯廷編輯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A school in which we may study the dregs of humanity or read the reflection of the stars.
阿蒂整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Yours is not the nature to find pleasure in gutter-raking. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Gutter, says Phil. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- 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. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Water was running in the gutter. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,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. 神奇的知識之書.
- Here is a man, sir, who was found, when a baby, in the gutter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- From this center gutter debouches branch to each of the pockets. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- 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. 世紀發明.
- In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched addition to the gutters. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- There are ingenious devices, termed the return gutters and convertible rails, which are worthy of description. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- 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. 神奇的知識之書.
- I used to do so, on the gutters, when I was a boy,' replied Mr. Pickwick. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- The candles flared and guttered before her, and the wax ex-votos hung about the shrine. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Because the candle was not guttered. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
珍妮特編輯