spout
spout 英 [spaʊt] 美 [spaʊt]
n. 喷口；水龙卷；水落管；水柱 vt. 喷出；喷射；滔滔不绝地讲；把…典当掉 vi. 喷出；喷射；滔滔不绝地讲
进行时:spouting 过去式:spouted 过去分词:spouted 第三人称单数:spouts 名词复数:spouts
- A spout is the narrow opening in the edge of a container that makes it easier to neatly pour its contents. A pitcher's spout helps you direct your orange juice into your glass.
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- n. 喷口；水龙卷；水落管；水柱
- vt. 喷出；喷射；滔滔不绝地讲；把…典当掉
- vi. 喷出；喷射；滔滔不绝地讲
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1. "It's amazing the way people will spout off these fake statistics that men think about sex nearly constantly and so much more often than women do," she said.
“人们滔滔不绝地引用错误的统计数据（男人经常联想到性，比女人多很多等），这太令人难以置信了，”她说。
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2. In this part of the cave, they could hear an insistent booming sound which they found was caused by a small water-spout shooting down into a pool from the roof of the cave.
在这儿，他们可以听见一种连续不断的轰鸣声。 后来他们发现这是由山洞顶部的一个小孔里喷出的水柱跌落到水潭中发出的声音。
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3. He once plugged up the spout of a teapot and placed it on the fire.
曾有一次，他把茶壶嘴用东西堵住，然后把茶壶放在火炉上。
- spout (n.) late 14c., from spout (v.). Cognate with Middle Dutch spoit, North Frisian spütj. It was the slang term for the lift in a pawnbroker's shop, the device which took up articles for storage, hence figurative phrase up the spout "lost, hopeless, gone beyond recall" (1812).
- spout (v.) "to issue forcible, as a liquid," early 14c., related to Middle Dutch spoiten "to spout" (Dutch spuiten "to flow, spout"), North Frisian spütji "spout, squirt," Swedish sputa "to spout," from Proto-Germanic *sput-, from PIE *sp(y)eu- "to spew, spit" (see spew (v.)). Meaning "to talk, declaim" is recorded from 1610s. Related: Spouted; spouting.
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