sluice
英 [sluːs]
美 [slus]
- n. 水闸；蓄水；洗矿槽
- vt. 冲洗；开闸放水
- vi. 奔流
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sluice 水闸，闸门，冲洗，流泻来自早期拼写 scluse,来自古法语 escluse,来自拉丁语 exclusa,水闸，闸门，来自 ex-,向外，-claus, 关闭，阻挡，词源同 close,conclusion.引申动词词义冲洗，流泻。
- sluice
- sluice: [14] A sluice is etymologically a device for ‘excluding’ water. The word comes via Old French escluse from Gallo-Roman *exclūsa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of Latin exclūdere ‘shut out’ (source of English exclude [14]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and claudere ‘shut’ (source of English close).
=> close, exclude - sluice (n.)
- c. 1400, earlier scluse (mid-14c.), a shortening of Old French escluse "sluice, floodgate" (Modern French écluse), from Late Latin exclusa "barrier to shut out water" (in aqua exclusa "water shut out," i.e. separated from the river), from fem. singular of Latin exclusus, past participle of excludere "to shut out" (see exclude).
- sluice (v.)
- 1590s, from sluice (n.). Related: Sluiced; sluicing.
- 1. We opened the sluice and the water poured in.
- 我们打开闸门,水就涌了进来.
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- 2. They sluice the streets down every morning.
- 他们每天早晨冲洗街道.
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- 3. They regulate the flow of water by the sluice gate.
- 他们用水闸门控制水的流量.
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- 4. Out of the sluice springs an exhaustible supply of water.
- 水从水闸中源源不断的涌出.
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- 5. A major practice is to sluice through pipelines to settling pond.
- 较重要的方法是经过管道冲流到沉淀池.
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