喜樂美語
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    nB1

    /ˈsuːər/ · /ˈsuːə/

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

    下水道

    複數 sewers

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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。s…更多收起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。

原始詞典資料5 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。

sewernoun詞源 1/ˈs(j)uːə/

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    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/

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

sewernoun詞源 2/ˈs(j)uːə/

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    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/

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

    • the apple-leaf sewer, Ancylis nubeculana

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。