water是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a clear liquid, without colour or taste, that falls from the sky as rain and is necessary for animal and plant life -- 水

  • a bottle/drink/glass of water 一瓶／份／杯水

  • bottled/mineral/tap water 瓶裝／礦泉／自來水

  • hot/cold water 熱／冷水

  • Can I have a drop of water in my whisky, please? 請在我的威士卡裡加一點水，好嗎？

  • Is there enough hot water for a bath? 這水洗澡夠不夠熱？

  • The human body is about 50 percent water. 人體約50%是水。

  • The water's warm - are you coming in? 水挺暖和的——你來游泳嗎？

  • I don't like getting my head under (= in) water. 我不喜歡把頭浸在水裡。

  • Dad, I swam a whole length of the pool under water (= with the whole head and body below the surface of the water)! 爸爸，我潛泳遊完了游泳池的一個全程！

  • The river is difficult to cross during periods of high water. 漲水的時候這條河很難過去。

  • St Lucia depends on its clean coastal waters for its income. 聖露西亞島的收入靠的是其清潔的近海水域。

  • In the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, oil rigs attract fish. 在墨西哥灣的淺海水域，石油鑽塔吸引了大量魚群。

  • At 3 a.m. her waters broke, and the baby was born soon after. 淩晨3點，她的羊水破了，嬰兒也很快就出生了。

  • People used to come to this city to take (= drink or swim in) the waters. 人們過去常來這座城市享用這裡的泉水。

• 1 to pour water on to plants or the soil that they are growing in -- 給…澆水；灌溉

  • I've asked my neighbour to water the plants while I'm away. 我已經請鄰居在我不在的時候幫忙給那些植物澆水。

  • The horses had been fed and watered. 已經給馬餵過飼料飲過水了。

• 2 If your mouth waters, it produces a lot of saliva, usually because you can see or smell some food that you would like to eat. -- 流口水

  • The smell of that bread is making my mouth water! 那種麵包的香味令我直流口水！

  • How do you stop your eyes from watering when you're cutting up onions? 切洋蔥時你是如何使眼睛不流淚的？

• 3 used to form adjectives -- （用於構成形容詞）

  • freshwater fish 淡水魚

  • a saltwater lagoon 鹹水瀉湖