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N-COUNT
（人行道旁的）排水溝，陰溝
The gutter is the edge of a road next to the pavement, where rain water collects and flows away.
例句
It is supposed to be washed down the gutter and into the city's vast sewerage system.
它應該是被沿排水溝沖入城市龐大的排水系統。
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N-COUNT
（屋檐的）雨水槽；檐溝
A gutter is a plastic or metal channel fixed to the lower edge of the roof of a building, which rain water drains into.
例句
Did you fix the gutter?
你修過排水槽了嗎？
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N-SING
一文不名；窮困潦倒
If someone is in the gutter, they are very poor and live in a very bad way.
例句
Instead of ending up in jail or in the gutter he was remarkably successful.
結果他非但沒有鋃鐺入獄或是窮困潦倒，反而功成名就。
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VERB
（火焰）忽明忽暗，搖曳不定
If a flame gutters, it burns weakly and unsteadily.
例句
The flames guttered.
火苗搖曳不定。
...a guttering candle.
火光搖曳的蠟燭