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单词 ditchwater
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Definition of ditchwater in English:

ditchwater

nounˈdɪtʃwɔːtəˈdɪtʃˌwɔdər
mass noun
  • Stagnant water in a ditch.

    沟中死水

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He made mechanical models, and gazed at ditchwater through a microscope.
    • Everyone must pick and sleep in freezing barns, beg food and drink salty ditchwater.
    • The warning signals are clear: yesterday's revolution could well become tomorrow's ditchwater.
    • No, he was about as far as he could get from Linwood and the ditchwater funk of the Gulf Coast.
    • ‘I happen to prefer champagne to ditchwater,’ said the benign old wrecker of the ordered society.
    • By Monday, the work resumes with the placement of culverts above and below the site to route ditchwater into the gently sloping forest cover below the road.

Definition of ditchwater in US English:

ditchwater

nounˈdɪtʃˌwɔdərˈdiCHˌwôdər
  • Stagnant water in a ditch.

    沟中死水

    Example sentencesExamples
    • No, he was about as far as he could get from Linwood and the ditchwater funk of the Gulf Coast.
    • The warning signals are clear: yesterday's revolution could well become tomorrow's ditchwater.
    • He made mechanical models, and gazed at ditchwater through a microscope.
    • ‘I happen to prefer champagne to ditchwater,’ said the benign old wrecker of the ordered society.
    • By Monday, the work resumes with the placement of culverts above and below the site to route ditchwater into the gently sloping forest cover below the road.
    • Everyone must pick and sleep in freezing barns, beg food and drink salty ditchwater.
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