sluice
n. 水閘; (用水閘控制的)水; 有閘人工水道; 漂洗處
vt. 沖洗; (指水)噴湧而出; 漂淨; 給…安裝水閘
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...
他沖洗了浴缸,然後放滿了一缸水。
Ten minutes later we were sluicing off dust at the fountain in the town centre.
10 分鐘之後,我們就在市中心的噴泉裡沖洗身上的灰塵了。
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.
我們一開啟閘門, 水就大量地湧了進來.
Out of the sluice springs an inexhaustible supply of water.
水從水閘中源源流出.
They regulate the flow of water by the sluice gate.
他們用水閘門控制水的流量.
They sluice the streets down every morning.
他們每天早晨沖洗街道.
Braving the explosion of the boiler, he rushed forward and turned off the sluice gate.
他冒著鍋爐爆炸的危險, 衝上去關掉了閘閥.