sluice: [14] A sluice is etymologically a device for ‘excluding’ water. The word comes via Old French escluse from Gallo-Roman *exclūsa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of Latin exclūdere ‘shut out’ (source of English exclude [14]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and claudere ‘shut’ (source of English close). => close, exclude
sluice (n.)
c. 1400, earlier scluse (mid-14c.), a shortening of Old French escluse "sluice, floodgate" (Modern French écluse), from Late Latin exclusa "barrier to shut out water" (in aqua exclusa "water shut out," i.e. separated from the river), from fem. singular of Latin exclusus, past participle of excludere "to shut out" (see exclude).
sluice (v.)
1590s, from sluice (n.). Related: Sluiced; sluicing.
雙語例句
1. We opened the sluice and the water poured in.
我們打開閘門,水就涌了進(jìn)來.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. They sluice the streets down every morning.
他們每天早晨沖洗街道.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. They regulate the flow of water by the sluice gate.
他們用水閘門控制水的流量.
來自辭典例句
4. Out of the sluice springs an exhaustible supply of water.
水從水閘中源源不斷的涌出.
來自辭典例句
5. A major practice is to sluice through pipelines to settling pond.