gutter

英 ['g?t?] 美['g?t?]

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復(fù)數(shù):?gutters;第三人稱單數(shù):?gutters;過(guò)去式:?guttered;過(guò)去分詞:?guttered;現(xiàn)在分詞:?guttering;

1. gout => gutter.
2. 諧音“溝頭兒”----栽在陰溝里頭兒。

gutter 檐溝

來(lái)自拉丁語(yǔ)gutta, 水滴，滴流，詞源同gout. 原指馬路下水道，后也指檐溝。

gutter: gutter: [13] Etymologically, a gutter is something along which ‘drops’ of water run. Its distant ancestor is Latin gutta ‘drop’ (source also of English gout). From it was formed the Vulgar Latin derivative *guttāria, which passed into English via Anglo-Norman gotere. The use of the word as a verb, meaning (of a flame) ‘flicker on the point of going out’, comes from the channel, or ‘gutter’, formed down one side of a candle by the melted wax flowing away.
=> gout
gutter (n.): late 13c., "watercourse, water drainage channel along the side of a street," from Anglo-French gotere, Old French guitere, goutiere "gutter, spout" of water (12c., Modern French gouttière), from goute "a drop," from Latin gutta "a drop" (see gout). Meaning "furrow made by running water" is from 1580s. Meaning "trough under the eaves of a roof to carry off rainwater" is from mid-14c. Figurative sense of "low, profane" is from 1818. In printers' slang, from 1841.
gutter (v.): late 14c., "to make or run in channels" (transitive), from gutter (n.). Intransitive use, in reference to candles (1706) it is from the channel that forms as the molten wax flows off. Related: Guttered; guttering.

3. Instead of ending up in jail or in the gutter he was remarkably successful.: 結(jié)果他非但沒(méi)有鋃鐺入獄或是窮困潦倒，反而功成名就。

4. The creeper is growing in towards the gutter, and should be cleared away.: 蔓草往溝里生長(zhǎng), 應(yīng)該除掉.

5. He picked her out of the gutter and made her a great lady.: 他使她脫離貧苦生活,并成為貴婦.