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A gusher is a place in the ground — usually an oil well — where oil or water shoots out with such force that you do not need a pump. The old picture is a black fountain bursting up over the fields. Water can gush this way too, but oil is the picture most people have. It is a slightly old, newspaper kind of word for that oil sense. When the burst is wild and dangerous, people at the well today more often talk about a blowout — though actually a gusher can also be a well that simply flows on its own, without that disaster colour. Much more rarely, someone who pours out talk or feeling is called a gusher; that looser use is less common than the adjective .
噴油井、自噴井(油或水自己噴出來,不用幫浦的)
組成From gush + -er: a thing that gushes. Doublet of geyser — the two words are cousins from the same older root, though geyser now means the hot-water spout.
原始詞典資料2 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。
gushernoun
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One who gushes (makes an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment).
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An oil well that has a natural flow and so requires no pumping.
- “[…]And then I finally realised the art galleries and the restaurants and so on are financed by this gusher of money from Wall Street. Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat and Leo Castelli wouldn't really exist if there weren't rich people who buy that art.”
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。