Water是什么意思啊

原标题：记住 | 老外说“make water”是什么意思？烧水？猜错啦！

“熟词偏义”是英语中常见的情况，看似每个单词都认识，连在一起就不知道是什么意思。

童鞋们，这里的“make water”可能大家第一反应是“做水”？然后联想到烧水、蒸馏水…咳咳咳…不好意思，都不对！

make water真正的意思是：小便、尿尿。

例句：

The young man walked far into the woods to make water.

年轻人走了很远的路尽到了森林里小便。

下面来考考大家，看看你能答对多少~

第一题： “Go number one ”是什么意思？

A、第一名

B、 去小便

第二题：“ hold water”是什么意思？ A、 有说服力

B、 控制住水

本期答案就在下面公布，看看你是否全部答对呢？

答案公布

第一题： “Go number one ”是什么意思？

B、 去小便

第二题：“ hold water” 是什么意思？A、 有说服力

今日测试

“Powder my nose ”是什么意思？

A、擦我的鼻子

B、去补补妆

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“big potato”是什么意思？

A、 大人物

B、大土豆

解析：选A、 大人物

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a clear liquid, without colour or taste, that falls from the sky as rain and is necessary for animal and plant life

水

a bottle/drink/glass of water 一瓶／份／杯水

bottled/mineral/tap water 瓶装／矿泉／自来水

hot/cold water 热／冷水

Can I have a drop of water in my whisky, please? 请在我的威士忌里加一点水，好吗？

Is there enough hot water for a bath? 这水洗澡够不够热？

The human body is about 50 percent water. 人体约50%是水。

A2 [ U ]

an area of water, such as the sea, a lake, or a swimming pool

水域；大片的水

The water's warm - are you coming in? 水挺暖和的——你来游泳吗？

I don't like getting my head under (= in) water. 我不喜欢把头浸在水里。

Dad, I swam a whole length of the pool under water (= with the whole head and body below the surface of the water)! 爸爸，我潜泳游完了游泳池的一个全程！

[ U ]

the level of an area of water

水位

The river is difficult to cross during periods of high water. 涨水的时候这条河很难过去。

 waters [ plural ]

the area of sea near to and belonging to a particular country

（某个国家的）领海，海域

St Lucia depends on its clean coastal waters for its income. 圣卢西亚岛的收入靠的是其清洁的近海水域。

the water contained in a particular lake, river, or part of the sea

（某一湖泊、河流或海洋的）水域

In the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico, oil rigs attract fish. 在墨西哥湾的浅海水域，石油钻塔吸引了大量的鱼群。

UK(US water)

the liquid that surrounds a baby inside a pregnant woman's womb

羊水

At 3 a.m. her waters broke, and the baby was born soon after. 凌晨3点，她的羊水破了，婴儿也很快就出生了。

 the waters [ plural ]

water from a spring, especially when used in the past for drinking or swimming in, in order to improve the health

泉水

People used to come to this city to take (= drink or swim in) the waters. 人们过去常来这座城市享用这里的泉水。

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习语

(like) water off a duck's back

water under the bridge

murky/uncharted waters

water

verb

water verb (GIVE WATER)

B2 [ T ]

to pour water on to plants or the soil that they are growing in

给…浇水；灌溉

I've asked my neighbour to water the plants while I'm away. 我已经请邻居在我不在的时候帮忙给那些植物浇水。

[ T ]

to give an animal water to drink

给（动物）喂水；饮（动物）

The horses had been fed and watered. 已经给马喂过饲料饮过水了。

water verb (PRODUCE LIQUID)

C2 [ I ]

If your mouth waters, it produces a lot of saliva, usually because you can see or smell some food that you would like to eat.

流口水

The smell of that bread is making my mouth water! 那种面包的香味让我直流口水！

[ I ]

When your eyes water, they produce tears but not because you are unhappy.

（并非因为难过而）流眼泪

How do you stop your eyes from watering when you're cutting up onions? 切洋葱时你是如何让眼睛不流泪的呢？

短语动词

water sth down

-water

suffix

used to form adjectives

（用于构成形容词）

freshwater fish 淡水鱼

a saltwater lagoon 咸水泻湖

water的例句

water

The first term represents a bare site and the next two terms refer to the interaction with water and with denaturant respectively.

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In addition to the milking, the izinceku also tended to the king's oxen and fetched water for the king in gourds.

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The water-transporting function of aquaporins is likely responsible for these roles.

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The food/water mixture was replaced every other day.

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In addition, the dielectric constant in the pore region should be set to 1 where the water molecules are represented explicitly (but see discussion below).

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Besides nutrients and light, rice and weeds also competed for water.

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The existence of discrete levels of critical water potential is suggestive of specific stresses that cells must accommodate during the acquisition of desiccation tolerance.