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

• Would it not set a precedent? Would it not open the floodgates?
  难道它不会成为先例吗？难道它不会引发更多类似的问题吗？
• 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。
• We start now, it'll open the floodgates.
  我们一旦开了这个先例。
• 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。
• Let's not get carried away that the floodgates are about to open, said Fraser Howie, an expert on China's capital markets.
  让我们不要忘乎所以，认为防洪闸将开启，中国资本市场专家侯伟（FraserHowie）表示。
• 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）。
• 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。
• 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。
• The discussion sessions allow people to open the floodgates to their deepest fears.
  这些讨论会使人们尽情倾诉心中的恐惧。
• Opening the floodgates to foreign investment, even from China, could trigger destabilising social change.
  向外资敞开大门，即便仅向中资敞开，也可能引发有损稳定的社会转变。