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- a hot spring in which water intermittently boils, sending a tall column of water and steam into the air间歇(喷)泉, 间歇向空中喷水柱和蒸汽柱的天然温泉。
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- a jet or stream of liquid(液体)喷柱:
the pipe sent up a geyser of sewer water into the street.
管道中污水形成水柱向街面喷去。
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- /ˈgiːzə(r)/Brit. a gas-fired water heater through which water flows as it is rapidly heated〈英〉燃气热水器。
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- S. African a hot-water storage tank with an electric heating element〈南非〉(有电热装置的)热水储水罐。
no obj., with adverbial of direction
- (especially of water or steam) gush or burst out with great force(尤指水或蒸汽)喷涌; 喷射:
a fissure opened and yellow smoke geysered upward.
一道缝裂开, 黄烟向上喷涌而出。
词源
late 18th cent.: from Icelandic Geysir, the name of a particular spring in Iceland; related to geysa 'to gush'.