Spout

(noun.) an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain.

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• In order to understand the action of a pump, we will suppose that no water is in the pump, and we will pump until a stream issues from the spout. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Yes, answered Gutenberg, it is in effect a wine-press, but it shall shortly spout forth floods of the most abundant and marvelous liquor that has ever flowed to quench the thirst of man. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In the common pump, water cannot not be raised higher than the spout. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Please to put THAT up the spout, ma'am, with my pins, and rings, and watch and chain, and things. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Spout--dear relation--uncle Tom--couldn't help it-- must eat, you know. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The tea-pot poured beautifully from a proud slender spout. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I will endeavour to explain my conceptions of this matter by figures, representing a plan and an elevation of a spout or whirlwind. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The volcano was now spouting fire furiously, and by the glare they were able to see the entrance of the breakwater. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• I lay upon my face and peered over with the spray spouting up all around me. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Those spouting geysers certainly don't bode any good, sir, nor that earthquake either. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• For over twenty years it has been spouting at average intervals of sixty-five minutes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The springs are spouting furiously, and the lake has disappeared. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The gun was firing now with the rocket whish and the cracking, dirt-spouting boom. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Where is the use of ranting and spouting about it, then? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• So that in this particular, likewise, whirlwinds and water-spouts agree. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• It has so happened that I have not met with any accounts of spouts that certainly descended; I suspect they are not frequent. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Stuart describes his spouts as appearing no bigger than a mast, and sometimes less; but they were seen at a league and a half distance. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Whirlwinds and spouts are not always, though most commonly, in the daytime. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Your manner of accommodating the accounts to your hypothesis of descending spouts is, I own, in ingenious, and perhaps that hypothesis may be true. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Water-spouts have, also, a progressive motion; this is sometimes greater and sometimes less; in some violent, in others barely perceivable. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The Chinese, probably before that time, had a wheelbarrow arrangement with a seed hopper and separate seed spouts. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I will _not_ deposit it in a broken-spouted teapot, and shut it up in a china closet among tea-things. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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