spigot

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英 [ˈspɪgət]word uk audio image

美 [ˈspɪɡət] word us audio image

  • n.
    栓,龙头,套管

单词词源

spigot 水龙头,塞,栓

词源不确定,可能同 spike,麦穗。字面意思即用一把草堵漏水孔。

双语例句

1. The spigot of racial hatred had been turned back on .
种族仇恨的水龙头已被重新开启。
2. First , fill a garden hose with water from the outside spigot .
首先,用外面的水龙头在一条浇水软管里灌满水。
3. If the financial spigot does not open again , most of the new entrants will disappear .
如果金融“水龙头”不再度开启,大部分新进入者将会消失。
4. The solutions were even more elegant perhaps than the one for monitoring electricity . A transducer affixed to an outdoor spigot can detect changes in water pressure that correspond to the resident 's water usage .
相应的解决方案甚至比先前的电流监测还要更简洁:安装在户外水龙头上的传感器能够探测水压的变化,而水压又与住户的用水量紧密联系在一起。
5. He returns to the terrain of " embracing defeat " , marvelling at how the vicious racial hatreds of the pacific war dissipated so quickly , as though " turned off like a spigot " .
道尔先生返回到《拥抱战败》,惊叹于太平洋战争中恶意的种族仇恨消退如此之快,仿佛“像水龙头一样,一下就关闭了”。

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