sewer
英['suːə;'sjuːə]
美['suɚ]
- n. 下水道；阴沟；裁缝师
- vt. 为…铺设污水管道；用下水道排除…的污水
- vi. 清洗污水管
词态变化
复数: sewers;
助记提示
1. 谐音“疏哦、疏尔、馊哦”-----疏导污水哦、疏导馊水哦。
2. ewer => sewer.
3. ex- => es- => s- + ewer (大口水壶, 其本义就是“水”) => sewer "removal of water, something that makes water out".
4. 由此可以看出，ewer 与 sewer 是同源词，他们都源于拉丁语 aqua "water" (aquaria, fem. of aquarius "pertaining to water")，只是在进入法语后，在漫长的演化过程，被改得面目全非，最终就变成了今天的样子，而英语就是从法语中引入的，如果英语直接从拉丁语中引入的话，就应该是这样的：ewer => aquary, sewer => exaquary.
中文词源
sewer 下水道，阴沟
来自古诺斯法语 sewiere,水闸，出水口，来自 Gallo-Roman*exaquaria,出水口，来自拉丁语 ex-,向外，出，aqua,水，词源同 aquarium,水族管。后词义专用化指下水道，阴沟。
英文词源
- sewer
- sewer: [15] Etymologically, sewer denotes the ‘removal of water’. The word comes via Anglo- Norman sever from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria, a derivative of *exaquāre ‘remove water, drain’. This was a compound verb formed from Latin ex- ‘out’ and aqua ‘water’. The derivatives sewage [19] and sewerage [19] are both native English formations.
=> aquatic - sewer (n.1)
- c. 1400, "conduit," from Anglo-French sewere, Old North French sewiere "sluice from a pond" (13c.), literally "something that makes water flow," from shortened form of Gallo-Roman *exaquaria (source of Middle French esseveur), from Latin ex- "out" (see ex-) + aquaria, fem. of aquarius "pertaining to water," from aqua "water" (see aqua-).
Specifically of underground channels for wastewater from c. 1600; figurative use of this is from 1640s. - sewer (n.2)
- "one who sews," late 14c., agent noun from sew (v.).
双语例句
- 1. The pond stank like a sewer.
- 池塘像阴沟一样散发着恶臭。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The stench from the sewer is indescribable.
- 下水道发出一股说不出的恶臭。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. They are tearing up the street to repair a sewer.
- 他们正挖开马路修下水道.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. Noxious gases had built up in the sewer.
- 下水道的有害气体越积越多.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 5. The sewer lines may then become clogged with inert materials.
- 废水管路可能被这种惰性物质堵塞.
来自辞典例句