sewers是什么意思？

sewers

英[s'ju:əz] 美[s'juəz]

• n. 阴沟，污水管，下水道( sewer的名词复数 )；

例句

• Once a year they have to flush the city's sewers. 每年,他们都得冲洗一次城市下水道.
• The sewers collected sewage and storm runoff and discharged it, untreated, into the harbour. 污水和暴雨径流汇入下水道后被直接排入海港。
• The sewers discharge out at sea. 下水道的污水排入海里.
• Infiltrate the sewers, rendezvous with Colonel Harding and then escape Colditz castle. 潜入下水道, 跟哈定上校约见面,然后逃出寇地兹堡垒.
• ...open sewers. 裸露的下水道
• ...the muck and mire of sewers and farm- yards. 下水道和农家庭院的污垢和烂泥

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  污水管;下水道;阴沟
  A sewer is a large underground channel that carries waste matter and rain water away, usually to a place where it is treated and made harmless.
  例句
  ...the city's sewer system. 城市排水系统 ...open sewers. 裸露的下水道