sluice: [14] A sluice is etymologically a device for ‘excluding’ water. The word comes via Old French escluse from Gallo-Roman *exclūsa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of Latin exclūdere ‘shut out’ (source of English exclude [14]). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex- ‘out’ and claudere ‘shut’ (source of English close). => close, exclude
sluice (n.)
c. 1400, earlier scluse (mid-14c.), a shortening of Old French escluse "sluice, floodgate" (Modern French écluse), from Late Latin exclusa "barrier to shut out water" (in aqua exclusa "water shut out," i.e. separated from the river), from fem. singular of Latin exclusus, past participle of excludere "to shut out" (see exclude).
sluice (v.)
1590s, from sluice (n.). Related: Sluiced; sluicing.
实用例句
1. We opened the sluice and the water poured in.
我们打开闸门,水就涌了进来.来自《简明英汉词典》
2. They sluice the streets down every morning.
他们每天早晨冲洗街道.来自《简明英汉词典》
3. They regulate the flow of water by the sluice gate.
他们用水闸门控制水的流量.来自辞典例句
4. Out of the sluice springs an exhaustible supply of water.
水从水闸中源源不断的涌出.来自辞典例句
5. A major practice is to sluice through pipelines to settling pond.
