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A chute is a narrow, channel that lets things - or sometimes people - slide down quickly, like a laundry chute in an apartment building, or a slide at a playground. In everyday speech, 'chute' is also used as a short, informal way to say 'parachute.'
滑槽、滑道；（口語）降落傘（parachute的簡稱）
組成This word comes from a French word meaning 'a fall.'
同家族的字
- parachutecontains this same piece, meaning 'a fall' - a parachute is literally something built 'against a fall'
原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Chutename
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A surname.
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A locality in the Shire of Pyrenees, Victoria, Australia.
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A civil parish in eastern Wiltshire, England, which includes the settlements listed below.
chutenoun詞源 1/ʃuːt/
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A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
- On reaching the slip, the barrow was wheeled off the truck onto a scaffolding gantry built out over the wall, and the concrete tipped down a corrugated iron chute on to a steel plate.
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A waterfall or rapid.
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A pen or passageway to constrain the movement of an animal, such as livestock being loaded for transport; the pen in which an animal is confined before being released in a rodeo.
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hobbieshorse-racinghorseracingAn extension to a straightway on either the home stretch or the backstretch, to avoid having a turn at the start of the race.
chutenoun詞源 2/ʃuːt/
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informalA parachute.
- Yet the initial IMF rescue plan was far from the parachute which it professed to be – the chute did open briefly but only for it to "Roman candle", the hapless victim left to plummet to earth with a sickening thud.
- At first, Cyclops's chute began to Roman candle , but in another moment, it popped.
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slangnauticaltransportA spinnaker.
chuteverb詞源 2/ʃuːt/
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informalTo parachute.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。