| 单词 | spout |
| 释义 | spout I. transitive verb 1. < gleaming metal faucet that spouted clear water — Julian Dana > < farmhouse windows spouted flame and smoke — F.V.W.Mason > < wells spouted 200 barrels an hour — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > < chewing snuff or spouting the brown residue into a tin pail — Earle Birney > — often used with out < machines of steel which spout out pins by the hundred million — G.B.Shaw > < causing the clams … to spout out tiny streams of water — American Guide Series: Maine > 2. < fairly spouted technicalities — C.S.Forester > < spouted French like a Frenchman > < every cabdriver in town can spout facts and gossip — John Durant > often < custom of these judges to spout extravagant … harangues from the bench — C.G.Bowers > < spouting Latin invective — F.L.Windolph > < always goes around spouting Shakespeare > < spouts tag ends of wisdom — Leslie Rees > 3. 4. < had the roof repaired and the eaves spouted > < teapot poured badly, had not been properly spouted > intransitive verb 1. < oil was spouting from Western lands — Van Wyck Brooks > < foamy bloody mucus spouted from her mouth and nose — Grace Reiten > < illuminated by flaming jets which seemed to spout from the trees — John Reed > < pure like a bubbling spring, a fountain spouting out — F.N.Souza > 2. < geyser was spouting freely > < waves were spouting high on the granite cliffs — C.L.Barrett > < he'd shy each time a clam spouted — G.W.Brace > specifically 3. < gave radio concerts, and politicians spouted into the strange instruments — F.L.Allen > < spout about science and rationalism — Harold Strauss > II. 1. a. (1) (2) (3) b. c. (1) < broke the spout off the teapot > < soldered a new spout on the watering can > (2) d. e. 2. a. < surging uprush of invisible spouts of warm air — William Beebe > as (1) (2) (3) b. < a solitary dark spout of smoke — Eric Linklater > < violent spouts and gusts of burning oil — Nevil Shute > < a rising spout of debate on guns versus butter — Fortune > < a spout of blasphemies — G.K.Chesterton > 3. also spout fish 4. a. b. c. (1) (2) archaic 5. < eyes became two spouts — Shakespeare > < nest high up in the hollow spout of the big fire-blackened gum — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > 6. • - up the spout |
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