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gutter

/guht-er/US // ˈgʌt ər //UK // (ˈɡʌtə) //

地沟,水沟,沟渠,地沟油

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a channel at the side or in the middle of a road or street, for leading off surface water.
    • : a channel at the eaves or on the roof of a building, for carrying off rainwater.
    • : any channel, trough, or the like for carrying off fluid.
    • : a furrow or channel made by running water.
    • : Bowling. a sunken channel extending along each side of a bowling lane, to catch balls that stray over the edge.
    • : the state or abode of those who live in degradation, squalor, etc.: the language of the gutter.
    • : the white space formed by the inner margins of two facing pages in a bound book, magazine, or newspaper.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to flow in streams.
    • : to lose molten wax accumulated in a hollow space around the wick.
    • : to burn low or to be blown so as to be nearly extinguished.
    • : to form gutters, as water does.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make gutters in; channel.
    • : to furnish with a gutter or gutters: to gutter a new house.

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Examples

  • Yes, you might have to recharge your blower—but odds are your gutters aren’t going to need hours of power to get things clean.

  • For example, single family homes would pay a flat fee, no matter how well built they were to send the water into the ground instead of out into the gutter.

  • The other day, I watched as one of the parents perched on one of our gutters, a worm hanging from its beak.

  • Replacing your gutters may cost you a little more than planting flowers and painting your door, however, it will go a long way in your home’s curb appeal.

  • Vinyl gutter systems are less expensive but are infamous for cracking over time in our cold weather.

  • He piles the trash into the can and stands in the gutter, waiting for the light to change.

  • Speaking with The Tottenville Review, Foy calls his school of writing “gutter opera.”

  • But all publications seem to go to the gutter when it comes to Lewinsky.

  • But I reserve the distinction for gutter dwelling and otherwise abhorrent behavior to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

  • Davis begins the film, punched by an aggressor into the gutter and ends it the same way.

  • A drunken man would reel from one side to the other until he fell down a cellar trap-door, into the gutter, or into the sea.

  • And to think that those documents are perhaps lying in the gutter at this very moment!

  • He was in a dreadful condition—a soiled and hopeless mass from the gutter out of which he had been rescued.

  • At the doors people sit drinking round tables placed on the pavement or in the rank, poisonous gutter.

  • He had been drunk over in town, and laid in the gutter all night, and he was a sight to look at.