gutter是什么意思

短语搭配

(1)gutter press小报记者；小报

(2)rain gutter雨水沟；雨水槽

(3)clogged rain gutter堵塞的雨水槽；堵塞的雨水排水沟

双语例句

(1)The continuous storm has filled all the gutters in the city.

持续的暴雨把城里所有的水沟都淹了。

(2)These candles in the temple guttered in the evening wind.

这些寺庙里的蜡烛在晚风中摇曳不定。

(3)The rain is guttering down his arms.

雨水正顺着他的胳膊流下来。

(4)A gutter is a channel at the side of a street.

排水沟是一条街旁的渠道

(5)She rose from the gutter to become a great star.

她是从贫民区成长起来的大明星。

(6)It is supposed to be washed down the gutter and into the city's vast sewerage system.

它应该被冲入排水沟，流入城市的巨大排污系统。

(7)There is this famous story of Mother Teresa holding and hugging a dying man in Calcutta rescued from a gutter.

有这样一个著名的故事，特蕾莎修女在加尔各答将一个濒临死亡的男人拖着抱出了排水沟。

(8)He lamented how Indian captains were made idols and then "thrown in the gutter" by the public; the habit took off with him.

他为印度队长如何成为偶像，然后被公众“扔进排水沟”而悲伤；这个习性拖累了他。

(9)As proud as I am that my son is tech-savvy like his daddy, it's equally important to me that he have analog skills: the ability to bait a hook, clean a gutter.

我的儿子和他的爸爸一样精通技术，这让我很自豪，但对我来说同样重要的是，他也有会通过模仿学习技能：能够给鱼钩上钩、清理排水沟。

同义词

n. 排水沟；槽；贫民区

vi. 流；形成沟

vt. 开沟于…；弄熄

adj. 贫贱的；粗俗的；耸人听闻的

同根词

词根 gutter

(1)guttersnipe n. 流浪儿；贫民窟的小孩

释义

n.

a shallow trough fixed beneath the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater

排雨槽，雨水槽，檐槽。

a channel at the side of a street for carrying off rainwater

（道路的）排水沟，街沟，明沟。

(the gutter)used to refer to a poor or squalid background or environment

贫贱的出身；贫穷（或肮脏）的环境

only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter.

只是有钱人的特权才使他摆脱了贫贱的出身。

technical a groove or channel for flowing liquid

〈技〉 沟，槽。

a channel on either side of a lane in a bowling alley

（保龄球球道两边的）球槽。

the blank space between facing pages of a book or between adjacent columns of type or stamps in a sheet

（书）左右两页中间的空白，订口；相邻两栏字之间的空白；（一版邮票上）邮票之间的空隙。

v.

[no obj.](of a candle or flame)flicker and burn unsteadily

（蜡烛，火焰）摇曳不定，忽明忽暗

the candles had almost guttered out.

烛火摇曳不定，几乎要熄灭了。

[with obj.]archaic channel or furrow with something such as streams or tears

〈古〉 因水流（或泪水等）在…上形成沟（或痕迹）

my cheeks are guttered with tears.

我的面庞满是泪痕。

[no obj.](gutter down)stream down

流，淌

the raindrops gutter down her visage.

雨滴从她脸上淌下。

词源

"Middle English： from Old French gotiere, from Latin gutta ‘a drop'； the verb dates from late Middle English, originally meaning ‘cut grooves in'　and later （early 18th cent.） used of a candle which melts rapidly because it has become channelled on one side．"

(1)Please, Amy, get your mind out of the ancient Athenian gutter.

求你了，艾米，能不能从古雅典人的污秽思想里出来。《The Big Bang Theory Season 11》《生活大爆炸 第十一季》