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A hosepipe is a long, soft tube that carries water, the kind you use to water the garden or wash a car. This is mainly a British word. In American English people usually say garden hose, or just hose. In Britain you will also hear hosepipe ban, when you may not use one because water is short. It can be a verb too: to hosepipe something is to spray it with that tube, though the noun is the meaning you will meet most. It is an everyday home word, not a technical one.
水管、膠水管（英式；美式多說 garden hose）
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。
hosepipenoun
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A flexible pipe for carrying water or other liquids.
- In a hot three-week drought that had begin in July he could have saved it, despite the hosepipe ban. But he had been too busy to haul full buckets the garden's length.
- Specifically, [Roger] Bailey [the chief technical officer of the Thames Tideway Tunnel] is hoping for “storm test three”, a downpour so heavy that it fills the 16 mile-long tunnel to 90 per cent of its capacity. That’s because London has been so dry since the sewer was connected in February that engineers haven’t been able to fully test whether it works as intended. Despite Southern Water lifting its hosepipe ban last week, more than 7 million people in England are still under a ban. England had its driest spring in more than a century, while the Environment Agency recently warned that drought is likely to continue into next year. According to the Met Office, the City of London has had just 61 per cent of average rainfall since February. “We don’t really want to wish lots and lots of rain and storms on people, but we do want to test our tunnel,” Bailey said. The £4.6 billion Thames Tideway is one of the city’s deepest tunnels and measures seven metres in diameter, much bigger than Tube lines.
hosepipeverb
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broadcastingfilmmediaTo film with erratic panning movements of the camera.
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。