“sluice、gate”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

sluice-gate

释义

sluice-gate
[sluice n.]
The gate of a sluice, the part which can be opened or shut to let out or retain the water; also, the upper gate of a lock.
1781Chambers' Cycl. s.v. Lock, Lock is..a kind of canal inclosed between two gates; the upper called by workmen the sluice-gate.1802Bloomfield Rural T. 41 To raise the sluice-gates early every morn.1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xiv, Not a sluice gate, or a painted scale upon a post or wall, showed the depth of water.1893Archaeologia LIII. 540 A singularly constructed sluice-gate in the city wall.
b. fig. or in figurative contexts.
1815Sporting Mag. XLVI. 153 Those who opened the sluice-gates of their wrath against Mr. Wynne's Bill.1846Mrs. Gore Eng. Charact. (1852) 137 The..sinews of the war of life lie at his disposal. At his nod, the sluice-gates close or open which control the fate of a country.1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 4 Having opened upon myself the sluice gates of advice, I rapidly became distracted.

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