floodgate

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The government has just begun a multi-billion euro floodgate project aimed at stopping rising sea levels destroying the town.
當(dāng)?shù)卣褤芸顢?shù)十億歐元用于投資防潮水閘工程，目的是要停止海平面上漲對(duì)水城的破壞。
The large volumes of waste could jam a key floodgate on the world's biggest dam, the government-owned China Daily newspaper reported Monday, citing an official with China Three Gorges Corp.
政府所有的《中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)》周一援引中國(guó)三峽集團(tuán)一名官員的話(huà)報(bào)導(dǎo)說(shuō)，大量廢棄物可能阻塞三峽的一處重要水閘。三峽是世界是最大的大壩。
Bannister had broken a belief in the limit of a human’s ability to run at such a pace and, consequently, opened a floodgate.
班尼斯特已經(jīng)打破了人類(lèi)在這個(gè)速度下賽跑的能力的限制，于是也打開(kāi)了一個(gè)閘門(mén)。

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a gate in a sluice that is used to control the flow of water (Also called head gate, water gate)&rarrsee also sluicegate