floodgate

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
    — At the start of the Second World War floodgates would be installed at the ends of the under-Thames sections of the Bakerloo and Northern lines to save them from inundation should bombs damage the riverbed.
  2. Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion, etc. figuratively
    — “The floodgates for advertising on cable are down,” says Michael Dann, a leading consultant on cable television.
  3. A stream that passes through a floodgate; a torrent. obsolete
    — Out of her gored wound the cruell ſteel / He lightly ſnatcht, and did the floodgate ſtop / VVith his faire garment: then gan ſoftly feel her feeble pulſe, to proue if any drop / Of liuing blood yet in her veynes did hop

词形变化

floodgates plural

词汇关系

相关词
sluice gate water gate watergate

词源

From Middle English flodegate, flodgate, flodeyate, floodȝate, flodȝete, equivalent to flood + gate.
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