sluice
sluice 英 [slu:s] 美 [slus]
n. 水闸；蓄水；洗矿槽 vt. 冲洗；开闸放水 vi. 奔流
进行时:sluicing 过去式:sluiced 过去分词:sluiced 第三人称单数:sluices 名词复数:sluices
- Anything that resembles a water slide with a gate is a sluice — a narrow channel that controls water flow.
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- n. 水闸；蓄水；洗矿槽
- vt. 冲洗；开闸放水
- vi. 奔流
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1. Experts believe that this sediment will build up behind the dam, with only an unproven system of sluice gates to release it.
专家认为泥沙将会在大坝后堆积，将仅经过一个未知的水闸系统排放。
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2. In order to flush sediment through, project engineers have designeda series of openings known as sluice gates at the base of the dam.
为了让泥沙和水流一起通过大坝，工程的设计师们在大坝底部设计了一系列的水闸门。
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3. Yu and his colleagues ar e dispatched to sluice gates during times of drought when the conservancy has to impose a potentially life-determining judgment on supplies.
在干旱季节，余和同事们会被派往水闸，此时水利委员会对水量供应做出的决策几乎生死攸关。
- 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.
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