Sluice
[sluːs] or [slus]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate.
(verb.) irrigate with water from a sluice; 'sluice the earth'.
(verb.) draw through a sluice; 'sluice water'.
(verb.) transport in or send down a sluice; 'sluice logs'.
(verb.) pour as if from a sluice; 'An aggressive tide sluiced across the barrier reef'.
手打:洛葛仙妮--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate.
(n.) Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
(n.) The stream flowing through a flood gate.
(n.) A long box or trough through which water flows, -- used for washing auriferous earth.
(v. t.) To emit by, or as by, flood gates.
(v. t.) To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows.
(v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining.
編輯:曼纽尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Opening, vent.
休伯特校對
解釋/意思:
n. a sliding gate in a frame for shutting off or regulating the flow of water: the stream which flows through it: that through which anything flows: a source of supply: in mining a board trough for separating gold from placer-dirt carried through it by a current of water: the injection-valve in a steam-engine condenser.—v.t. to wet or drench copiously: to wash in or by a sluice: to flush or clean out with a strong flow of water.—adj. Sluic′y falling in streams as from a sluice.
手打:威尔
例句/造句/用法:
- She sat down among the roots of the alder tree, dim and veiled, hearing the sound of the sluice like dew distilling audibly into the night. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- At the head of the steps was the lock of the sluice-gate. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He found a considerable quantity in the sluice-boxes of the Cherokee Valley Mining Company; but just then he found also that fruit-gardening was the thing, and dropped the subject. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- On Sundays he mostly lay all day on the sluice-gates, or stood against ricks and barns. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Thus Trabb's boy became their guide, and with him they went out to the sluice-house, though by the town way to the marshes, which I had avoided. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I knew very well, however, that the appointed place was the little sluice-house by the limekiln on the marshes, and the hour nine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- In a little while we had shut the door of the dark and empty sluice-house, and were passing through the quarry on our way back. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But Alva, when he had read these documents, did not wait for the opening of any more sluices. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
整理:斯特拉