floodgate

英 [ˈflʌdɡeɪt]

美 [ˈflʌdɡeɪt]

n.  防洪闸门; 泄水闸门

复数：floodgates　

GRETEM8

BNC.20683 / COCA.21192

牛津词典

noun

• 防洪闸门；泄水闸门
  a gate that can be opened or closed to control the flow of water on a river
  1. If the case is successful, it may open the floodgates to more damages claims against the industry (= start sth that will be difficult to stop) .
     如果本案胜诉，就可能有更多的人向这个产业提出损害索赔，从而一发不可收拾。

英英释义

noun

• regulator consisting of a valve or gate that controls the rate of water flow through a sluice
  Synonym:sluicegatesluice valvepenstockhead gatewater gate
• something that restrains a flood or outpouring
  1. suspension of surveillance opened the floodgates to illegal immigrants

双语例句

• According to the detection in certain floodgate and seepage control wall, these methods are mostly applicable to general investigation, or qua antecedency methods of detailed detection, and could find out the form and interior disfigurement.
  通过某大闸和某水库防渗墙的检测表明，这些方法主要适用于普查、检测或作为详测的先行手段，可查明成形状况及内部缺陷。
• Analysis of Causes of Destroying of Apron behind Floodgate
  闸后海漫破坏原因分析和防治措施考后
• Hydrodynamic Force and Sediment Disposal down Floodgate near Estuary
  河口闸下水动力与泥沙清淤问题的研究
• Since there is less research on the heightening and consolidating the floodgate suffering the mass-subsidence, this paper does it.
  对于大沉陷量地区水闸的加高加固技术，目前研究的较少。
• The floodgate may be regarded as a series system with four main failures modes including slip along the foundation, compression failure of the floodgate toe in the downstream line, tension crack of the floodgate heel in the upper stream and non-uniform stress distributions.
  软基上的水闸可看成由4种主要失效模式（沿闸基面的滑动、下游闸趾压坏、上游闸踵拉裂和上下游应力不均匀）所组成的串联体系。
• The floodgate walls act as concrete projects of big volume subjected to hostile environments, such as high temperature and high dampness and pose a high anti-seeping and anti-leaking demand.
  水闸墙体为高温高湿环境下的大体积混凝土工程，防渗、防漏要求高。
• This was big news to him and opened a floodgate of questions about what it was like there, where I had been, etc.
  这对他来说可是个大新闻，他的问题就像开了闸的洪水，一发不可收拾：大陆是什么样子，我去大陆都住在哪儿，等等。
• This paper has analyzed the main problems of a control system for floodgate.
  本文对泄洪闸门控制系统的主要技术问题进行分析。
• It is the Web that has opened the floodgate of interest in the internet.
  正是Web打开人们对Internet兴趣的闸门。
• Physical model study on floodgate of Xinyi Estuary Second-Phase Project
  新沂河口二期建闸物理模型试验研究