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A spout is the tube or lip on a container that liquid pours out of — the part of a or a kettle you pour from. As a verb, to spout is to send liquid out in a strong stream. People also use the verb about talking: someone who spouts nonsense keeps saying it loudly without thinking.
壺嘴、噴口;噴出;(貶)滔滔不絕地說
原始詞典資料13 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。
spoutnoun/spaʊt/
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A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
- I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
- I put a spout in the maple tree to collect its sap
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A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
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A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.
- A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.
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A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
- […] the river rushes over the Auchinlilie Lin or Spout, a tremendous chataract^([sic]); after which it proceeds in a more quiet course, and is navigable to the village of Carron Shore.
- The Spout of Garnock is a wild and romantic waterfall upon that stream in the moors of Kilbirnie parish. The rock here is also porphyry. The porphyry upon the east side of the fall is much rent, and has fallen forward[…]
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A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
- The great spout of broken mineral, which had damned the canyon up.
- From the side of the hill … a spout of gravel was dislodged.'
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A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
- He ought to haue expert coniecture of Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes: and such lyke Meteorologicall effectes, daungerous on Sea.
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The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
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A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.
spoutverb/spaʊt/
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To gush forth in a jet or stream
- Water spouts from a hole.
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To eject water or liquid in a jet.
- The whale spouted.
- The mighty whale […] spouts the tide.
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To speak tediously or pompously.
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To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
- Pray, spout some French, son.
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datedslangTo pawn; to pledge.
- to spout a watch
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。