sewer

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n. 下水道, 阴沟, 裁缝师 vt. 用下水道排, 铺设下水道于

发音

UK /ˈs(j)uːə/
UK /ˈsəʊə/
其它
US /ˈsuɚ/
US /ˈsoʊɚ/
AU

词形变化

sewers 复数 sewered sewers 三单 sewering 现在分词 sewered 过去式 sewered 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

    下水道

    渗沟

    阴沟

    There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.

  2. 1.

    An official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.

    历史

    His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.

  3. 1.

    One who sews.

  4. 2.

    A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.

    the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana

v.
  1. 1.

    To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

toilet gutter cloaca sewerage

上位词 8

drain misfortune drainpipe bad luck ill luck needleworker tough luck waste pipe

下位词 3

tucker baster tacker

相关短语

sewer rat n. 褐家鼠 sewer gas [医] 阴沟秽气 sewer rats sewer service sewer socialism sewer fly sewer flies sewer slide sewer socialist sewer socialists storm sewer 雨水管 leaf sewer car sewer common sewer sanitary sewer

词源

From Middle English sewer, seuer, from Anglo-Norman sewere (“water-course”), from Old French sewiere (“overflow channel for a fishpond”), from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria (“drain for carrying water off”), from Latin ex (“out of, from”) + aquāria (“of or pertaining to waters”) or from a root *exaquāre.

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