floodgates

英 [ˈflʌdgeɪts]

美 [ˈflʌdˌgeɪts]

网络  水闸; 闸门; 防洪闸; 水闸理论; 诉讼闸门

双语例句

• More floodgates are to be opened in the coming days for the first time in several decades.
  未来几天，还有更多的防洪闸门将被开启，在几十年来尚属首次。
• A public conflict with the female vice president opened the floodgates for others who were upset with me.
  与女学生会主席的公开冲突打开了其他人不满的闸门。
• This opened the floodgates, allowing Web developers ( plus hobbyists, tinkerers, and others) to mash all sorts of data ( everything from nuclear disasters to Boston's CowParade cows) onto maps.
  这仿佛打开了一道大门，让Web开发人员（包括爱好者、修补程序开发人员和其他一些人）可以在地图中包含所有类型的数据（从原子弹灾难到波士顿的CowParade奶牛都可以）。
• A decision against the cigarette companies could open the floodgates to many more lawsuits
  不利于烟草公司的裁决可能引发更多的官司。
• North Korea opened floodgates Sunday morning on a hydropower dam on its side of the North-South border.
  北韩星期天上午打开南北韩分界线北韩一侧一座水电站大坝的闸门。
• Last Tuesday Janine Huard, now79, became the first still sane survivor to be offered compensation, and legal experts believe her secret settlement will open the floodgates for other victims.
  上周二，现今79岁的杰妮？华尔德成为第一个依然神智清醒并且获得了赔偿的幸存者。法律专家认为，这一秘密赔偿将会为其他受害者索赔打开水闸门。
• But starting in late 2008, when the government opened the credit floodgates and ordered banks to lend as much as they could, all the careful risk management work appeared to go out the window.
  但从2008年末开始，政府打开了信贷闸门，下令银行尽可能多地发放贷款，于是，此前所有谨慎的风险控制工作，似乎被抛在脑后。
• They are used for connecting the sluice of the Three-gorge Dam and the gantry or disconnecting them. Political changes in eastern Europe opened the floodgates to thousands of people who wished to emigrate.
  该液压系统为三峡大坝泄洪闸实现与门机联接或脱开的系统。东欧的政治剧变打开了移民的泄洪闸，成千上万的人急于移民他国。
• A government spokesman threatened to retaliate by opening the floodgates.
  一位政府发言人威胁要打开闸门以进行报复。
• Her team's experiments, which will be outlined in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, found giving in to our bodily needs opens the floodgates to wanting more fulfilments.
  她的研究团队通过实验发现，对生理需求的屈从会促使人们去寻求更多满足。这项研究将发表在心理科学协会的月刊《心理科学》上。