sluice
n. 水闸; (用水闸控制的)水; 有闸人工水道; 漂洗处
vt. 冲洗; (指水)喷涌而出; 漂净; 给…安装水闸
A sluice is a passage that carries a current of water and has a barrier, called a sluice gate, which can be opened and closed to control the flow of water.
If you sluice something or sluice it down or out, you wash it with a stream of water.
He sluiced the bath and filled it...
他冲洗了浴缸,然后放满了一缸水。
Ten minutes later we were sluicing off dust at the fountain in the town centre.
10 分钟之后,我们就在市中心的喷泉里冲洗身上的灰尘了。
1. conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
1. pour as if from a sluice;
2. irrigate with water from a sluice;
3. transport in or send down a sluice;
4. draw through a sluice;
As soon as we opened the sluice, the water poured in.
我们一打开闸门, 水就大量地涌了进来.
Out of the sluice springs an inexhaustible supply of water.
水从水闸中源源流出.
They regulate the flow of water by the sluice gate.
他们用水闸门控制水的流量.
They sluice the streets down every morning.
他们每天早晨冲洗街道.
Braving the explosion of the boiler, he rushed forward and turned off the sluice gate.
他冒着锅炉爆炸的危险, 冲上去关掉了闸阀.