1. 1噴油井、自噴井(油或水自己噴出來,不用幫浦的)

    A gusher is a place in the ground — usually an oil well — where oil or water shoots out with such force that you do not need a pump. The old picture is a black fountain bursting up over the fields.

    A gusher is a place in the groundGusher是地底下的一個地方 usually an oil well通常是油井 where oil or water shoots out with such force that you do not need a pump石油或水噴出來的力道大到不需要幫浦 The old picture is老一輩想到的畫面是 a black fountain bursting up over the fields一道黑色噴泉在田野上噴發而出

    Water can gush this way too, but oil is the picture most people have. It is a slightly old, newspaper kind of word for that oil sense.

    Water can gush this way too水也可以這樣噴出來 but oil is the picture most people have但大部分人腦中想到的畫面是石油 It is a slightly old, newspaper kind of word這是個有點舊、報紙常用的字 for that oil sense指的就是那個石油的意思

    When the burst is wild and dangerous, people at the well today more often talk about a blowout — though actually a gusher can also be a well that simply flows on its own, without that disaster colour.

    When the burst is wild and dangerous當噴發又猛又危險的時候 people at the well today more often talk about a blowout現場的人現在比較常說是blowout(井噴) though actually a gusher can also be a well that simply flows on its own不過其實gusher也可以只是一口自己會流出油的井 without that disaster colour沒有那種災難的色彩

    Much more rarely, someone who pours out talk or feeling is called a gusher; that looser use is less common than the adjective .

    Much more rarely, someone who pours out talk or feeling is called a gusher更少見的是,滔滔不絕說話或抒發感情的人也會被叫做gusher that looser use is less common than the adjective gushing但這種比較鬆散的用法沒有形容詞gushing常見

core核心畫面

組成From gush + -er: a thing that gushes. Doublet of geyser — the two words are cousins from the same older root, though geyser now means the hot-water spout.

同家族的字

  • gushthe verb: liquid bursting out
  • geysera doublet: same older root, now the hot spring that shoots up
  • gushingthe adjective from the same verb, often of praise that pours out too strongly

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

gushernoun

  • 1

    One who gushes (makes an excessive display of enthusiasm, praise, or sentiment).

  • 2

    An oil well that has a natural flow and so requires no pumping.

    • “[…]And then I finally realised the art galleries and the restaurants and so on are financed by this gusher of money from Wall Street. Julian Schnabel and Jean-Michel Basquiat and Leo Castelli wouldn't really exist if there weren't rich people who buy that art.”

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