chute
noun /ʃuːt/
/ʃuːt/
- a tube or passage down which people or things can slide
（人或物可顺势滑下的）斜槽，溜道 - a water chute (= at a swimming pool)
滑水槽 - a laundry/rubbish/garbage chute (= from the upper floors of a high building)
洗衣滑槽；垃圾道（高层建筑上面各层用的）
Homophones chute | shootchute shoot/ʃuːt//ʃuːt/- chute noun
- The laundry chute leads down to the washer-dryer area in the basement.
洗衣槽通向地下室的洗衣干衣机区。
- The laundry chute leads down to the washer-dryer area in the basement.
- shoot verb
- The recruits are learning to shoot at targets.
新兵正在学习瞄准目标射击。
- The recruits are learning to shoot at targets.
- shoot noun
- She posed for the cameras as though for a fashion shoot.
她对着镜头摆好姿势，好像是为了拍时装。
- She posed for the cameras as though for a fashion shoot.
- He tossed the discarded wrapping down the chute.
他将丢弃的包装材料扔下垃圾槽。 - The rubbish goes down the chute into a large bin.
垃圾顺着滑道进入一个大垃圾桶。 - a swimming pool with a long water chute
有长滑水槽的游泳池
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- garbage
- laundry
- rubbish
- …
- down a/the chute
- a water chute (= at a swimming pool)
- (informal) a parachute (= a device that is attached to people or objects to make them fall slowly and safely when they are dropped from an aircraft. It consists of a large piece of thin cloth that opens out in the air.)
降落伞： 降落伞（一种附着在人或物体上的装置，当人或物体从飞机上坠落时，使它们缓慢而安全地掉落。它由一块大的薄布组成，该薄布向空中敞开。）
词源sense 1 early 19th cent. (originally a North American usage): from French, ‘fall’ (of water or rocks), from Old French cheoite, feminine past participle of cheoir ‘to fall’, from Latin cadere; influenced by shoot.sense 2 1920s: shortened form.