单词 | gutter |
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音标 | ['gʌtə] |
解释 | n.水槽;街沟 |
红宝书 | 【英】 水槽(a trough or channel along or under the eaves of a roof);街沟(a narrow channel along the side of a road or street, to carry off water, as to a sewer) 【记】 gut(肠胃,引申为沟) +ter→街沟 |
字源 | gutter (n.) late 13c., "watercourse, water drainage channel along the side of a street," from Anglo-French gotere, Old French guitere, goutiere (13c., Modern French gouttière) "gutter, spout" (of water), from goute "a drop," from Latin gutta "a drop." Meaning "furrow made by running water" is from 1580s. Meaning "trough under the eaves of a roof to carry off rainwater" is from mid-14c. Figurative sense of "low, profane" is from 1818. In printers' slang, from 1841. gutter (v.) late 14c., "to make or run in channels," from gutter (n.). In reference to candles (1706) it is from the channel that forms on the side as the molten wax flows off. Related: Guttered; guttering. |
不择手段背单词 | n. 水槽; 街沟(在街边或路边把地面的水排走的通道); 簷槽(把雨水从房顶排走的水槽) 【记】gut(n 肠子: 引申为沟), ter-街沟; 簷槽 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】gut有峡道的意思,肠子引申而来;cut出来gush的东西 |
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