Ditch

(noun.) a long narrow excavation in the earth.

(noun.) any small natural waterway.

(verb.) crash or crash-land; 'ditch a car'; 'ditch a plane'.

(verb.) make an emergency landing on water.

(verb.) forsake; 'ditch a lover'.

乔斯林编辑

• I was born in a ditch, and my mother ran away from me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• So far I had seen no one and I sat down by some bushes along the bank of the ditch and took off my shoes and emptied them of water. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Select a dry, shady spot; dig a ditch for carrying off the waste water, and over it place a lath-work. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• At that point, however, as it happens, there is a broadish ditch, moist at the bottom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The fat Dissenter who had given out the hymn was left sitting in the ditch. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He is as sweet as honey, and I am as dull as ditch-water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• An average size ocean liner pays about $5,000 for the privilege of sailing through this great ditch. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• There were villas with iron fences and big overgrown gardens and ditches with water flowing and green vegetable gardens with dust on the leaves. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• These ditches, however, were not over eight or ten feet in width. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• It appeared to be a collection of back lanes, ditches, and little gardens, and to present the aspect of a rather dull retirement. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• This took us over several ditches breast deep in water and grown up with water plants. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Let him be prepared to be assailed by the odours of undrained gutters, ditches, and roads called streets, and escape, if he can, stumbling and falling into them. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• In the meantime workmen had been busy digging ditches and laying mains through the district that Edison intended to light. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• We could look across the plain and see farmhouses and the rich green farms with their irrigation ditches and the mountains to the north. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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