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gully

/guhl-ee/US // ˈgʌl i //UK // (ˈɡʌlɪ) //

沟渠,沟壑,水沟,沟谷

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n.名词 noun
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    plural gul·lies.Also gulley .

    • : a small valley or ravine originally worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains.
    • : a ditch or gutter.
    • : Cricket. the position of a fielder between point and slips.the fielder occupying this position.
v.有主动词 verb
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    gul·lied, gul·ly·ing.

    • : to make gullies in.
    • : to form by the action of water.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : Slang. of or relating to the environment, culture, or life experience in poor urban neighborhoods; vulgar, raw, or authentic; ghetto: Does your mama know what you’re up to on these gully street corners all night?Keepin’ it gully, for real!

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Examples

  • At one point in 1971, he spotted a jawbone jutting out from the side of the gully.

  • The snails turned up in small patches of unburned habitat, sometimes at the bottom of gullies or in deep leaf litter around the bases of large trees.

  • One by one we left camp, figuring we’d be able to keep tabs on each other pretty easily in the wide-open gully.

  • In 2000, Cogswell helped found The Gully, an online lesbian magazine, which closed six years later.

  • Gully Wells shares recollections of growing up with her mother, stepfather, and their famous inner circle.

  • Judge then of my surprise when I rode up out of the water-washed gully and found them nowhere in sight.

  • It was perched high above the sidewalk, for the street but a few years since was a gully, and the grading had deepened it.

  • Thousands of Turks in a bunch, so the boys say, swarmed out of their trenches and the Gully Ravine.

  • One of the horses was hobbled, and they were all eating hungrily the grass that grew along the gully's sides.

  • A few pines were sprinkled about the slopes of the gully, and one or two of them which had fallen lay athwart the creek.