floodgate

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈflʌd.ɡeɪt]
• 美式音标 [ˈflʌd.ɡeɪt]
• 国际音标 ['flʌdɡeit]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n.泄水闸门；防洪闸门；(怒气等的)制约；大量

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• The government has just begun a multi-billion euro floodgate project aimed at stopping rising sea levels destroying the town.
  当地政府已拨款数十亿欧元用于投资防潮水闸工程，目的是要停止海平面上涨对水城的破坏。
• The large volumes of waste could jam a key floodgate on the world's biggest dam, the government-owned China Daily newspaper reported Monday, citing an official with China Three Gorges Corp.
  政府所有的《中国日报》周一援引中国三峡集团一名官员的话报导说，大量废弃物可能阻塞三峡的一处重要水闸。 三峡是世界是最大的大坝。
• Bannister had broken a belief in the limit of a human’s ability to run at such a pace and, consequently, opened a floodgate.
  班尼斯特已经打破了人类在这个速度下赛跑的能力的限制，于是也打开了一个闸门。

权威例句

• Existing investors Andreessen Horowitz Greylock Partners, Khosla Ventures and FLOODGATE participated in the round.
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• But that is a huge boost to Floodgate, rather than a distraction from it.
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• These days, Maples invests through his firm, Floodgate, and has a real office, with a sign.
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词组短语

短语

• Floodgate Fund 闸门基金
• next floodgate 下闸
• floodgate wall 水闸墙
• floodgate drawings 水门图
• coastal floodgate 沿海挡潮闸

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a gate that can be opened or closed to control a flow of water

柯林斯英英字典

• a gate in a sluice that is used to control the flow of water (Also called head gate, water gate)&rarrsee also sluicegate