spout

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n. 喷口, 从喷口流出的水, 水落管, 水龙卷 vt. 喷出, 喷射, 滔滔不绝说出, 典押 vi. 喷射, 高谈阔论

发音

AU /spaʊt/
CA /spʌʊt/

词形变化

spouts 复数 spouts spouted spoutest spouteth spouts 三单 spouting 现在分词 spouted 过去式 spouted 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

喷口;水龙卷;水落管;水柱

动词

喷出;喷射;滔滔不绝地讲;把…典当掉

动词

喷出;喷射;滔滔不绝地讲

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.

    嘴子

    I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.

    I put a spout in the maple tree to collect its sap

  2. 2.

    A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).

  3. 3.

    A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.

    喷射

  4. 4.

    A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.

  5. 5.

    A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.

    From the side of the hill … a spout of gravel was dislodged.'

  6. 6.

    A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).

  7. 7.

    The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.

  8. 8.

    A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.

    澳大利亚
v.
  1. 1.

    To gush forth in a jet or stream

    喷出

    喷放

    不及物

    Water spouts from a hole.

  2. 2.

    To eject water or liquid in a jet.

    及物/不及物

    The whale spouted.

  3. 3.

    To speak tediously or pompously.

    不及物
  4. 4.

    To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

    及物
  5. 5.

    To pawn; to pledge.

    过时 俚语 及物

    to spout a watch

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from Old Dutch *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta (“squirt, syringe”). See also spit, spew.

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