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单词 sluice
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sluice
noun[C]
uk
/sluːs/us
/sluːs/
(alsosluiceway)
anartificialchannelforcarryingwater, with anopeningat one end tocontroltheflowof thewater
有闸水道；泄水道
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sluice
verb[Iusually+ adv/prep]
uk
/sluːs/us
/sluːs/
Ifwatersluices out fromsomewhere, itflowsinlargeamounts:
（水）大量溢出，泄出
Water sluicedoutfrom thepipes.水从管道里大量溢出。
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  • runsomeone/somethingover
  • runnel
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  • seepage
  • spit
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  • swirl
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Phrasal verb

sluicesomethingdown/out
(Definition ofsluicefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsluice

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Their role in improving ditches, sluices and drainage is especially important in a flat, low-lying, peat area such as mine.
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The structures have included intakes, sluices, spillways and stilling basins.
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He also said this was opening the sluices, and that bad developments might occur.
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There is another and quite a different value—the value resulting to the land from the fact that the sea wall and sea sluices are there.
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The sea portion of it might be fitted with sluices for temporary flooding.
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Instead of upgrading the equipment, it was replaced with a macerator which minced to pieces the aborted babies and sluiced them down the local sewer.
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The old operating theatre has no anaesthetic room, no recovery ward, no ventilation system and is adjacent to the ward's sluices and toilets.
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I was also interested in the threats by local farmers to close sluices.
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If ever this canal is to be put into operation again, the sluices and the locks must be renewed.
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We must seriously consider putting grids on sluices to ensure that the smolts are not passing through to the fish farms.
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Sluicing should be done with mechanical sluicing equipment and disinfection is achieved by means of soaking in a recommended solution of disinfectant.
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The £8·27 million includes the barrage structure, the locks, the refuge harbour, the fish passes and the sluices—and roads and services.
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I am concerned with drainage that goes into rivers and the effect of people leaving open sluices which should be shut.
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We have a lot of huge sluices in the peatland area, which sometimes can be as much as 20, even 30, ft across.
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There are two separate projects, the sluices and the reservoir.
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