sewer
音標(biāo)：
美音：/?su??r/，英音：/?su??(r); ?sju??(r)/

聽聽基本釋意：

英語學(xué)習(xí)：https://engapi.com/article/4411

外刊例句：
Both said the area never severely flooded until a sanitary sewer system replaced septic tanks 10 years ago, making some streets higher than others and channeling rain onto lower roads.
兩人都表示，在 10 年前衛(wèi)生下水道系統(tǒng)取代化糞池之前，該地區(qū)從未發(fā)生過嚴(yán)重的洪水，導(dǎo)致一些街道比其他街道高，并將雨水引到較低的道路上。
—Washington Times

Some of Wales’ current sewer infrastructure dates back to the Victorian era.
威爾士目前的一些下水道基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施可以追溯到維多利亞時代。
—BBC

The force is also extracting gas samples from sewers in the area in an effort to identify the gas, she said.
她說，該部隊(duì)還從該地區(qū)的下水道中提取氣體樣本，以識別氣體。
—New York Times

基本釋意：
noun
a waste pipe that carries away sewage or surface water
n. 下水道，陰溝；縫紉工，縫紉機(jī)；（中世紀(jì)貴族宅邸中的）司膳管家

同義詞：
cloaca,sewerage,gutter,toilet

短釋義：
After you take a shower, or wash dishes, or flush the toilet, that used waste water runs through pipes away from your house. It travels either to a small septic system, or to a larger, city-wide sewer system, where it’s treated to make it safe and clean enough to release into the environment. The origin of sewer can be traced to the Old North French sewiere, “sluice from a pond,” or “something that makes water flow.”
像許多超級英雄一樣，忍者神龜生活在下水道中，該系統(tǒng)從建筑物、房屋和瘋狂的科學(xué)家實(shí)驗(yàn)室中輸送廢物和水。流下雨水渠的水最終也會流入下水道。

長釋義：
After you take a shower, or wash dishes, or flush the toilet, that used waste water runs through pipes away from your house. It travels either to a small septic system, or to a larger, city-wide sewer system, where it’s treated to make it safe and clean enough to release into the environment. The origin of sewer can be traced to the Old North French sewiere, “sluice from a pond,” or “something that makes water flow.”
在你淋浴、洗碗或沖馬桶后，用過的廢水會通過管道從你家流走。它要么進(jìn)入一個小型化糞池系統(tǒng)，要么進(jìn)入一個更大的、覆蓋全市的下水道系統(tǒng)，在那里經(jīng)過處理以使其安全和清潔到足以釋放到環(huán)境中。下水道的起源可以追溯到古老的北法語 sewiere，“池塘的水閘”，或“使水流動的東西”。

文學(xué)例句：
I imagined that human remains didn’t look much different than animal parts after a week in the waste pit or the Stockyards’ communal sewer.
我想象在垃圾坑或 Stockyards 的公共下水道中待了一個星期后，人類遺骸看起來與動物器官沒有太大區(qū)別。
—The City Beautiful by Aden Polydoros

A utility out of Bluefield snapped up the sewer and the water lines, and within a month, the people in Coalwood started receiving bills for what they had always thought was naturally free.
Bluefield 的一家公用事業(yè)公司搶購了下水道和供水管線，一個月內(nèi)，Coalwood 的人們開始收到他們一直認(rèn)為自然免費(fèi)的賬單。
—October Sky by Homer Hickam

More so, because despite its toxicity, the mutts begin to throw themselves into the foul sewer.
更重要的是，盡管它有毒，但雜種狗開始將自己扔進(jìn)骯臟的下水道。
—Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

詞源：
sewer?(n.1)c. 1400, seuer, “conduit, trench, or ditch used for drainage” (of surface water or marshland), from Anglo-French sewere (early 14c.), Old North French sewiere “sluice from a pond” (13c.), literally “something that makes water flow.” From late 13c. in surnames (Robertus Atte Suor). Also compare Anglo-Latin sewera, suera. These are from a shortened form of Gallo-Roman *exaquaria (source of Old French esseveur), from Latin ex “out” (see ex-) + aquaria, fem. of aquarius “pertaining to water,” from aqua “water” (from PIE root *akwa- “water”). For form evolution, compare ewer, from Latin aquarius.After c. 1600 the sense of “underground channel for wastewater” emerged and predomination, especially “a public drain; a conduit or canal constructed to carry off waste water, etc.” Figurative use of this is from 1640s. Sewer rat, the common brown rat when infesting sewers, is from 1861.Related entries & more

下面是詞源的翻譯（機(jī)器翻譯比較難翻，參考著看）
下水道（n.1）c。 1400, seuer，“用于排水的管道、溝渠或溝渠”（地表水或沼澤地），來自英法 sewere（14 世紀(jì)初），古北法語 sewiere“池塘的水閘”（13 世紀(jì)），字面意思“能讓水流動的東西?！睆?13 世紀(jì)末開始。在姓氏中（Robertus Atte Suor）。還要比較盎格魯-拉丁語的 sewera、suera。這些來自高盧羅馬語 *exaquaria（古法語 esseveur 的來源）的縮寫形式，來自拉丁語 ex“out”（參見 ex-）+ aquaria，fem。水瓶座“與水有關(guān)”，來自 aqua“水”（來自 PIE 詞根 *akwa-“水”）。對于形式演變，比較 ewer，來自拉丁語 aquarius。在 c 之后。 1600 年出現(xiàn)了“廢水地下通道”的概念并占主導(dǎo)地位，尤其是“公共排水溝；為排出廢水而建造的管道或運(yùn)河等”。這個的比喻使用是從 1640 年代開始的。下水道老鼠是 1861 年滋生下水道時常見的棕鼠。相關(guān)條目及更多