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单词 sewer
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sewer
noun[C]
uk
/sʊər/us
/ˈsuː.ɚ/
alargepipe, usuallyunderground, that is used forcarryingwastewaterandhumanwasteaway frombuildingsto aplacewhere they can besafelygotridof:
下水道；排污管；阴沟
a sewerpipe污水管
Acomplicatedsystemof sewersrunsunder thecity.城市的地下布有复杂的排污系统。
open sewer
achannelforcarryingawaywastewaterandwastefrom thehumanbodythat is above thegroundand is notcovered
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(Definition ofsewerfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

sewer| American Dictionary

sewer
noun[C]
us/ˈsu·ər/
anartificialpassageorpipe, usuallyunderground, thatcarrieswasteand usedwaterfromsinksandtoiletsaway frombuildingsto aplacewhere they can besafelygottenridof:
Thecountyis putting in new sewers.
(Definition ofsewerfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsewer

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Trucks of the streets and sewers departments were used in moving the flood menaced families to various school houses located on higher grounds.
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We retrieved our equipment and recarpeted the sewers.
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Their salaries merely covered their supervision of the repair and cleansing of sewers.
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Her house was not directly connected to the sewers of the commission, and existed on an elevation.
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There are other important legal issues surrounding sewers not discussed in this article.
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Low levels of capital expenditure on sewers do not mean that improvements were not taking place in the collection and disposal of wastes.
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In terms of their construction costs, sewers and streets are far less capital-intensive than water supply.
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Such sewers differed from the emphasis on comprehensiveness and system that characterized the new kind of sewerage.
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The neighbourhood has good street conditions, natural gas, electrical power, sewers, public lighting, and a refuse-collection service.
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The large faintly speckled area in the upper left of the map is an area of parkland with no sewers or manholes.
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In fact, the vast majority of the capital's sewers had long possessed semi-circular bottoms.
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As we have already noted, in 1901-1905 (the years of peak investment in all services) sewers were still only receiving half the capital expenditure annually dedicated to water.
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Though most commissions rated many property owners who were not directly connected to the sewers, they did omit selected groups of ratepayers deemed to derive no benefit.
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The early negative effect of misguided sanitary investment was not fully cancelled out until the major increase in investment in sewers and streets began in the 1890s.
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The plot is a bit of an urban leftover, an eccentric combination of fragments of subdivided lots, traversed by both sanitary and open storm sewers [5].
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Collocationswithsewer

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combined sewer
Infiltration into sewers therefore has an insignificant bearing on such issues as sewage treatment, the operation ofcombinedseweroverflows and flooding from sewers.
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sanitary sewer
A site plan usually shows a building footprint, travelways, parking, drainage facilities,sanitarysewer lines, water lines, trails, lighting, and landscaping and garden elements.
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sewer line
This aerosol may have escaped through manholes that were used for ventilation along thesewerline.
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