喜樂美語
  1. 1n/ˈsuːər/ · /ˈsuːə/下水道

    a pipe or passage under the ground that carries away waste and used water from houses and buildings.

    「sewer」是地底下把用過的水、廢水帶走的管子或通道。可以想成一條藏在路下面的「髒水小路」，把家裡、學校用過的水送到處理的地方。常見說法：sewer pipe（下水管）、sewer system（下水道系統）。跟 drain 容易搞混——drain 常指家裡水槽、馬路排水口；sewer 多半指城市地底那一整條大管網。

    示範例句 · Example

    Workers are fixing a broken sewer pipe under the street.

    中文翻譯工人們正在修理一條壞掉的下水管在街道下面。

    常見搭配

    • a sewer pipe

      下水管

      a pipe that carries waste water away under the ground

      The city is replacing an old sewer pipe near the school.

    • a sewer system

      下水道系統

      the network of underground pipes that carry waste water for a town or city

      A good sewer system keeps used water moving safely under the city.

    • an open sewer

      明溝；沒蓋住的下水道

      a waste-water channel that is not covered

      Long ago, some towns had open sewers along the street.

    • connect to the sewer

      接到下水道

      to join a building's drains to the public underground pipe system

      The cabin cannot connect to the sewer, so it uses a different system.

    • a new sewer / build sewers

      新下水道／建造下水道

      to make new underground waste-water pipes for a place

      The growing town needed to build new sewers for more homes.

    • the main sewer

      主下水道；幹管

      the large central underground pipe that other sewers join

      All the side pipes join the main sewer under the avenue.

    意思相近

    drainpipeconduit

    用法接近

    sewagedrainpipegutterwater main

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From the word’s history

From Anglo-Norman sewere 'water-course', from Old French sewiere, from Vulgar Latin *exaquāria 'drain', from ex 'out' + aquaria 'of waters'.

源自諾曼法文 sewere「水道」，來自拉丁文「把水排出」的意思。

Wiktionary

Picture a wide pipe running under the street, dark and always moving: everything that goes down the toilets, sinks and drains of a whole neighbourhood is travelling along it, away from the houses. A sewer is not the drain you see in your bathroom — it is the big hidden channel that all those drains empty into.

可以想成馬路底下那條又粗又暗、水一直在流的大管子：整個社區的馬桶、洗手台、地面排水口沖下去的東西，都在裡面往外走。sewer 指的不是你浴室看得到的那個排水孔（那是 drain），而是所有排水孔最後匯進去的那條地下幹道。所以英文說 the city's sewers，講的是整座城市地下那一整套排污系統。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

同家族的字

sewers

意思相近

drainpipeconduit

用法接近

sewagedrainpipegutterwater main

原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

sewernoun詞源 1/ˈs(j)uːə/

  • 1

    A pipe or channel, or system of pipes or channels, used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.

    • There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.
    • One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.

sewerverb詞源 1/ˈs(j)uːə/

  • 1

    To provide (a place) with a system of sewers.

sewernoun詞源 2/ˈs(j)uːə/

  • 1

    historicalAn official in charge of a princely household, also responsible for the ceremonial task of attending at dinners, seating the guests and serving dishes.

    • While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer, holding his white rod of office.
    • His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer, or waiter.

sewernoun詞源 3/ˈsəʊə/

  • 1

    One who sews.

    • Up under the roof three men are making boys’ jackets at twenty cents a piece, of which the sewer takes eight, the ironer three, the finisher five cents, and the buttonhole-maker two and a quarter, leaving a cent and three-quarters to pay for the drumming up, the fetching and bringing back of the goods.
  • 2

    A small tortricid moth, the larva of which sews together the edges of a leaf using silk.

    • the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。