英语词汇“floodgate”的音标、意思、用法及中文翻译-反思网

open the floodgates

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And the floodgates were lifted.
He did not wish many people except Mr. Sidney, who very kindly lent his soft meadow behind the floodgates, to be privy to the matter, which he rightly foresaw would take him to the autumn.
Mr. Sidney saw him while yet far off, and bellowed at him about pig-pounds and floodgates.

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To breach that would open the floodgates to all the commercial embargoes.
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Nobody should say that the floodgates will be opened if the grant goes through because that will not happen.
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I do not seek to open any floodgates of compensation.
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If we make an exception in this instance, we shall open the floodgates to others.
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The sequence of events has shown how wide is the damage once the floodgates are opened.
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One successful application and the floodgates would be straining at the seams, if not actually bursting.
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The remedy that it proposed opened the floodgates of gambling and the far greater evils that came with it.
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The abolition of the resolution opens the floodgates of competition based on under-cutting those already on low wages to provide the cheapest possible tender.
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What they are doing will throw open the floodgates.
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Do we want to open the floodgates of suffering even further?
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If one proprietor was able and willing to raise floodgates, his efforts could be rendered useless by some other proprietor further up the water.
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We are not opening the floodgates of social change for further reductions in the age of consent.
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However, they have levelled the charge that when we abolished prenotification we opened the floodgates for price increases.
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As for the "precedent"and"floodgates" arguments, let us consider what has been done already.
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We seriously doubt its effectiveness unless the illegally imported tobacco floodgates are closed.
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词汇	floodgate
释义	floodgate noun[ Cusually plural ] uk /ˈflʌd.ɡeɪt/ us /ˈflʌd.ɡeɪt/ a gate that can be opened or closed to control a flow of water防洪闸门;水闸 FooTToo/iStock/GettyImagesPlus/GettyImages SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Floods, tides & currents atmospheric river deluge eddy flash flood flood floodplain gyre high tide high water mark inundation low tide overwhelm swash tidal tidally tide table turbulence turbulent waterline whelm Idiom open the floodgates Examples from literature And the floodgates were lifted. He did not wish many people except Mr. Sidney, who very kindly lent his soft meadow behind the floodgates, to be privy to the matter, which he rightly foresaw would take him to the autumn. Mr. Sidney saw him while yet far off, and bellowed at him about pig-pounds and floodgates. Examples of floodgate floodgate To breach that would open the floodgates to all the commercial embargoes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nobody should say that the floodgates will be opened if the grant goes through because that will not happen. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not seek to open any floodgates of compensation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we make an exception in this instance, we shall open the floodgates to others. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sequence of events has shown how wide is the damage once the floodgates are opened. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One successful application and the floodgates would be straining at the seams, if not actually bursting. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The remedy that it proposed opened the floodgates of gambling and the far greater evils that came with it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The abolition of the resolution opens the floodgates of competition based on under-cutting those already on low wages to provide the cheapest possible tender. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What they are doing will throw open the floodgates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Do we want to open the floodgates of suffering even further? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If one proprietor was able and willing to raise floodgates, his efforts could be rendered useless by some other proprietor further up the water. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not opening the floodgates of social change for further reductions in the age of consent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, they have levelled the charge that when we abolished prenotification we opened the floodgates for price increases. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As for the "precedent"and"floodgates" arguments, let us consider what has been done already. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We seriously doubt its effectiveness unless the illegally imported tobacco floodgates are closed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of floodgate These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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