Word · Frequency #21555
sluice
水闸；泄水闸；水门
sluice
- 1.
An artificial passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, for example in a canal lock or a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow.
人工水道,装有阀门或闸门,例如在船闸或磨坊水渠中,用于阻止或调节水流。
- 2.
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
通过闸门控制水流的导管
- 3.
A water gate or floodgate.
水闸或防洪闸门。
- 4.
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
任何东西流经的开口或通道；供应源。
- 5.
The stream flowing through a floodgate.
流过防洪闸门的水流。
- 6.
A long box or trough through which water flows, used for washing auriferous earth.
一种长箱或长槽,水从中流过,用于淘洗含金泥土。
- 7.
An instance of wh-stranding ellipsis, or sluicing.
wh-词语滞留省略(即sluicing)的实例。
人工水道,装有阀门或闸门,例如在船闸或磨坊水渠中,用于阻止或调节水流。；通过闸门控制水流的导管；水闸或防洪闸门。；任何东西流经的开口或通道；供应源。；流过防洪闸门的水流。
In use
The gardener opened the sluice to let water flow into the field.
Heavy rain caused the old sluice to break.
The workers repaired the sluice before the storm.
a sluice for + verb-ing
名词用法，指可控制水流的闸门；后接 for + 动名词说明用途。
The dam has a sluice for releasing floodwater.
大坝有一个用于泄洪的水闸。
sluice sth (down/out/with sth)
及物动词用法，表示用水冲洗，常接 down/out 等表示方向。
They sluiced the mud out of the pipe.
他们用水把管道里的泥冲了出来。
sth sluices + adv./prep.
不及物动词用法，主语常为液体，表示奔流、倾泻。
Rainwater sluiced down the hillside.
Connections
Collocations
- open a sluice
- 打开水闸
- The workers opened a sluice to irrigate the rice fields.工人们打开水闸灌溉稻田。
- close a sluice
- 关闭水闸；合上闸门
- They closed the sluice before the river rose too high.他们在河水涨得太高之前关上了水闸。
- sluice gate
- 水闸门；泄水闸门
- A sluice gate controls the flow of water past the dam.水闸门控制水流过水坝。
- sluice out
- 用水流冲洗；冲刷干净
- The stable hands sluiced out the stalls every morning.马夫们每天早晨用水冲刷马厩。
- sluice down
- （雨）倾泻而下；倾盆而下
- The rain sluiced down all night, flooding the streets.大雨倾泻了一整夜，街道都被淹了。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想：水闸放水时，水‘嘶溜’一声冲出闸门——sluice 就是那道水闸。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：hydraulic engineering、flood control、washing operations、flow descriptions sluice 的正式度随词性变化：作名词时，多用于水利工程、泄洪或灌溉等专业场景，比较正式；作动词时，可指用水冲刷或水流急速流动，常见于书面描述。这个词在日常口语交流中出现较少，更适合技术或书面语境。
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词都与 sluice /slus/ 押韵，韵尾为 /uːs/。注意：slice /slaɪs/ 拼写相近，但读音不同，勿混淆。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.