trough
n. 槽, 水槽, 饲料槽 [化] 料槽
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A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
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料槽
饲槽
One of Harriet's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
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Any similarly shaped container.
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A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
There was a small trough that the sump pump emptied into; it was filled with mosquito larvae.
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An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
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A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
加拿大The troughs were filled with leaves and needed clearing.
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A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
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A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay.
The neurologist pointed to a troubling trough in the pattern of his brain-waves.
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A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
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A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.
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Any similarly shaped container.
A rectangular container used for washing or rinsing clothes.
澳大利亚 新西兰Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.
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To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.
He troughed his way through three meat pies.
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上位词 9
下位词 9
整体词 3
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PIE word *dóru From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós, enlargement of *dóru (“tree”). See also West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Danish trug, Swedish tråg; also Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”). More at tree.
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