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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。
水闸；泄水闸；水门
sluices — plural of sluice
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水闸；泄水闸；水门
sluice
The dam has a sluice for releasing floodwater.
大坝有一个用于泄洪的水闸。
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。
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.
通过闸门控制水流的导管
conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
水闸或防洪闸门。
A water gate or floodgate.
任何东西流经的开口或通道；供应源。
Hence, an opening or channel through which anything flows; a source of supply.
The gardener opened the sluice to let water flow into the field.
园丁打开水闸让水流进田里。
Heavy rain caused the old sluice to break.
大雨导致旧水闸损坏。
The workers repaired the sluice before the storm.
工人们赶在暴风雨前修好了水闸。
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。
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。
不及物动词用法，主语常为液体，表示奔流、倾泻。
Rainwater sluiced down the hillside.
雨水顺着山坡奔流而下。
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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。
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。
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。
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。
（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。
打开闸门；放开限制（使大量涌入）
The court ruling opened the sluice gates for thousands of new claims.
法院的裁决为数千起新的索赔打开了闸门。
(雨水)倾泻而下，奔流而下
Torrential rain sluiced down all night, flooding the streets.
瓢泼大雨倾泻了一整夜，淹没了街道。
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联想：水闸放水时，水‘嘶溜’一声冲出闸门——sluice 就是那道水闸。
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。
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。
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