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喷油井;捕鲸船;说话滔滔不绝的人;照管流出槽的工人
verb
transitive verb
to eject (liquid) in a stream
wells spouting oil
to speak or utter readily, volubly, and at length
to speak or utter in a pompous or oratorical manner : declaim
a candidate spouting empty promises
intransitive verb
to issue with force or in a jet : spurt
to eject material (such as liquid) in a jet
declaim
noun
a pipe or conductor through which a liquid is discharged or conveyed in a stream: such as
a pipe for carrying rainwater from a roof
a projecting tube or lip from which a liquid (such as water) issues
a discharge or jet of liquid or moisture from or as if from a pipe: such as
waterspout
the blowing of a whale
archaic pawnshop
Verb Middle English; akin to Middle Dutch spoiten to spout, Old English spīwan to spew
The first known use of spout was in the 14th century
Sputniknoun
any of a series of satellites launched by the Soviet Union beginning in 1957
spurnverb
to reject or thrust aside with scorn
spurnverb
to reject or thrust aside with scorn
spuriousadjective
not genuine or authentic : false
spruce1 of 3verb
to make or make oneself spruce spruce up a bit before going out to dinner
spruce up a room
spruce2 of 3adjective
neat or stylish in appearance
spruce3 of 3noun
any of a genus of usually pyramid-shaped evergreen trees that are related to the pines and have soft light wood
the wood of a spruce
spring tidenoun
a greater than usual tide that occurs at each new moon and full moon
spring1 of 2verb
to appear or grow quickly
the weeds sprang up overnight
to come from by birth or descent
sprang from an immigrant family
to come into being : arise
towns sprang up across the plains
to move suddenly forward or upward : leap sprang up the path sprang to my feet
a lion crouched and waiting to spring
to have (a leak) appear
to move by elastic force
the lid sprang shut
to become warped or bent
the door has sprung
to cause to operate suddenly
spring a trap
to produce suddenly
sprung a surprise on us
pay entry 1 sense 1—usually used with for
spring for a new pair of shoes
to release or cause to be released from confinement (as jail)
spring2 of 2noun
a source of supplyespecially: a source of water coming up from the ground
the season between winter and summer including in the northern hemisphere usually the months of March, April, and May
a time or season of growth or development
an elastic body or device that recovers its original shape when released after being squeezed or stretched
the act or an instance of leaping up or forward
elastic power or force
the spring in your step
spread-eagleverb
to stand or move with arms and legs spread wide
spout1 of 2verb
to shoot (as liquid) out with force
wells spouting oil
to speak with a long and quick flow of words so as to sound important
to flow out with force : spurt
blood spouted from the wound
spout2 of 2noun
a tube, pipe, or hole through which something (as rainwater) spouts
a sudden strong stream of fluid
1 That was that the debris from the spouter was not shot so high as at first.
2 Sam concluded he had been listening to spouters in 149 the Park, but he was sharp enough to recognise beneath the crude boyish creed the kindly generous nature that prompted it.
3 They are usually about the red-hot needs of opinion spouters, not their recipients.
4 The General's indignation was specially aroused when "socialist" spouters tried to block all his plans of beneficence with their foul misrepresentations.
5 Slavery to every spouter who flatters your self-conceit and stirs up bitterness and headlong rage in you?
6 The well may be a 'spouter,' or they may have to pump.
7 From outside, it's impossible to know if Jenkins, a retail banker by background, is viewed on the trading floor of the investment bank as a boss leading overdue reform or a spouter of wishy-washy platitudes.
8 In vain "Blood and Iron," with foes that environ Your sceptre, smart Press-man, or Socialist spouter, May struggle together; you hold them in tether, Or so you proclaim, you, whom foes call "the Shouter."
9 A clever spouter he'll sure turn out, or An out and outer, to be let alone; Don't hope to hinder him, or to bewilder him, Sure he's a pilgrim from the Blarney Stone.
10 During the three days the Festival lasted, such scenes as I have described were repeated,—the only changes being in the persons of the singers and spouters.
11 Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the 17th century water spouter Jean Royer, able to swallow prodigious amounts of water and then spout said liquid in colors and aromas pleasing to the senses.
12 More certain it is that with "Mr. Punch's Young Reciter" he effectively suppressed the drawing-room spouter.
13 She kept spouting on and on about politics.
14 And don’t look too closely at the main characters, either; spouters of self-conscious dialogue, they are only fully believable when they sing.
15 He never looked behind him after that, and, being a great “spouter,” he got onto the Keighley Local Board.
16 Such men have been most aptly termed spouters of froth.
17 The spouter found himself suddenly flat on his back on the sidewalk, having been sent there by a vigorous trip from Tom Reade.
18 Then a spouter, Full of long words and windy; a wire-puller, Jealous of office, fond of platform-posing, Seeking that bubble She-enfranchisement E'en with abusive mouth.
19 “That has been the main argument of every spouter at International Peace Congresses for many a year,” said Dalroy bitterly.
20 Feuerbach was decidedly right when he refused to take the responsibility of this materialism, only he had no business to confound the teachings of the itinerant spouters with materialism in general.