duct
noun /dʌkt/
/dʌkt/
- a pipe or tube carrying liquid, gas, electric or phone wires, etc.
（传送液体、气体、电线、电话线等的）管道，管子 - a heating/ventilation duct
暖气导管；通风道 - Air flows through the ventilation ducts.
空气流经通风管道。 - They managed to get out of the building by crawling through a ventilation duct.
他们设法顺着通风管道爬出了大楼。
- a heating/ventilation duct
- a tube in the body or in plants through which liquid passes
（人体或植物体内输送液体的）管，导管
词源mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘course’ or ‘direction’): from Latin ductus ‘leading, aqueduct’ from duct- ‘led’, from the verb ducere.