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Gouge Make Price Holes Means Gas Station Verb

英语单词 gouge
英美音标 英 [ɡaʊdʒ] 美 [ɡaʊdʒ]
中文释义 v.用圆凿子挖;挖出;<非>欺骗
n.圆凿;凿;凿孔;<非>欺诈
英语例句 (1) A maniac had gouged several holes in the priceless painting.
(2) To make a Halloween lantern, you first have to gouge out the inside of the pumpkin.
中文例句 (1) 有个狂徒在那幅价值连城的画上乱凿了几个洞。
(2) 要做一个万圣节灯笼, 你先得挖空这个南瓜。
vocabulary简明 Gouge means stealing by overcharging. If your local gas station puts the price of gas way up because a storm is coming, you may say that the station owner gouges prices — and that's illegal.
vocabulary扩展 The verb gouge means to cut or carve. You can use special chisels to gouge linoleum for interesting design in printing. As a noun, a gouge is the tool you would use — instead of a flat-head chisel, a gouge has a trough — to make the gouge marks of the design. Another meaning of the verb gouge is an indentation in the surface of something. If you're not careful with the screwdriver, you'll accidentally gouge a hole in the wall.
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词]凿;挖 If you gouge something, you make a hole or a long cut in it, usually with a pointed object.
  [V n prep]
  • He gouged her cheek with a screwdriver.

    他用螺丝刀戳她的脸颊。

  • ...quarries which have gouged great holes in the hills.

    在山里挖出一个又一个大窟窿的采石场

  • Gouge is also a noun.
    • ...a muddy gouge in the ground.

      地上凿出的泥坑

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[N-COUNT 可数名词]凿子 A gouge is a tool which is used for cutting and shaping wood.
    3
    [VERB 动词]诈骗…的钱财;敲…的竹杠;向…漫天要价 If you say that a business gouges its customers, you mean that it forces them to pay an unfairly high price for its goods or services.
      [V n]
      [disapproval]
      [mainly AM 主美]
      [INFORMAL 非正式]
    • Banks and credit-card companies have been accused of gouging their customers.

      银行和信用卡公司被指控欺诈顾客。

    gouging
    • The airline industry has charged the oil companies with price gouging.

      航空业指责石油公司漫天要价。

    相关词组:
    gouge out

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