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ditch

/dich/US // dɪtʃ //UK // (dɪtʃ) //

沟渠,沟,沟壑,沟壑纵横

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a long, narrow excavation made in the ground by digging, as for draining or irrigating land; trench.
    • : any open passage or trench, as a natural channel or waterway.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to dig a ditch or ditches in or around.
    • : to derail or drive or force into a ditch.
    • : to crash-land on water and abandon.
    • : Slang. to get rid of: I ditched that old hat of yours.to escape from: He ditched the cops by driving down an alley.to absent oneself from without permission or an acceptable reason.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to dig a ditch.
    • : to crash-land in water and abandon the sinking aircraft.
    • : Slang. to be truant; play hooky.

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Examples

  • A sheriff’s deputy had little trouble finding him — the man had passed out drunk in a nearby ditch with an open box of Reese’s Pieces.

  • You are ignoring the problem here, which is last week in Pennsylvania, you had ballots found in a ditch.

  • McEnany clarified that the ballots were found in a ditch in Wisconsin.

  • The newly discovered earthwork, a 2-meter-wide ditch that forms a semicircle about 50 meters across, is similar to other circular earthworks known as council circles.

  • Specially equipped drones flying over a Kansas cattle ranch have detected the buried remnants of a horseshoe-shaped ditch made more than 400 years ago by ancestors of today’s Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, scientists say.

  • Who knew explaining how to change a tire and back out of a ditch could be so seductive?

  • Worries about a last ditch Nazi stand in the Alps had mounted appreciably over the final year of the war.

  • It also made sense for Sorenson to ditch Bachmann for entirely political reasons.

  • Outside the lodge, running along its perimeter, was a small ditch lined by posts topped by a chest-high wooden beam.

  • Fonda tried in vain to convince Jarrow and Archer to ditch the project.

  • It was encircled by a ditch, but the drawbridge was down, and the rust on its chains argued that long had it been so.

  • "Mother would be awfully cross if you walked through that ditch," says Judy, continuing a conversation.

  • He gripped Shiv's shoulder convulsively, nearly sending his own car into the ditch by so doing.

  • We cut over the fields at the back with him between usstraight as the crow fliesthrough hedge and ditch.

  • Then I ditch from the lake, and I am the proud owner of a large tract of valuable irrigated land.