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geyser

/gahy-zer, -ser for 1, 3; gee-zer for 2/US // ˈgaɪ zər, -sər for 1, 3; ˈgi zər for 2 //UK // (ˈɡiːzə, US ˈɡaɪzər) //

泉眼,喷泉,间歇泉,间歇喷泉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a hot spring that intermittently sends up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air.
    • : British Informal. a hot-water heater, as for a bath.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to spew forth as or like a geyser: the kettle geysering all over the stove.

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Examples

  • To his left, he watched a chunk of steel strike a fellow officer above the eye, setting off a geyser of blood.

  • A recent reawakening of the tallest geyser in the world is not a harbinger of an imminent volcanic eruption, a new study reports.

  • One of the most fundamental questions about geysers is why they erupt to certain heights, he adds — and why, for example, Steamboat can shoot water over 100 meters into the air, while Old Faithful’s fountain is perhaps a third as high.

  • Bring a thermos of coffee or hot chocolate in case you have to wait for the geyser to erupt.

  • Shortly after Taylor’s death, the ground shook a few miles north and a 60-foot geyser blew skyward.

  • The oil geyser has shot them to different financial universes, but they still understand each other perfectly.

  • This prompts Sarah Lynn to stab herself with a Confederate bayonet letter-opener, causing a geyser of blood.

  • There was a tremendous splash, and a small-sized geyser shot upward.

  • The famous geyser shown in the illustration is called “Old Faithful” because of the clock-like regularity of its eruptions.

  • She is right, it is petroleum; there are here wells of it, from which it bursts up with great force sometimes, like a geyser.

  • Toward the geyser hurried Frank, still looking for his companion.

  • Unlike that of the Great Geyser, it is always in ebullition, and its temperature is subject to comparatively slight differences.