Definition of gutter in English:

gutter

noun ˈɡʌtəˈɡədər

1A shallow trough fixed beneath the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater.
排雨槽，雨水槽，檐槽
Example sentencesExamples
- For watering our garden, we direct rainwater from our roof gutters.
- The gutters round the roofs of the wings were constructed in a manner which is now, as I understand it, obsolete.
- Water from this melting is trapped and creates an ice dam on the roof, gutters and downspouts.
- Slates had been falling from the roof and that recently builders had placed planking in the gutters at roof level to stop the slates falling to the ground below.
- A drip edge is simply a piece of metal mounted on the edge of the roof to prevent water from curling underneath the edge of the roof and bypassing the gutters.
- Mr Bowell revealed that the panels that shattered were on the old roof, above the gutter.
- Downspouts from roof gutters should route water away from the building.
- You can get a £30 discount from your water bill if you can show that none of the water from your roof gutters or garden runs into a sewer.
- Stagnant water can be prevented from developing by stopping water collecting in places such as gutters and flat roofs by removing debris such as leaves and twigs.
- I recall considering grabbing the gutter on the roof edge as it rose past me, but doubted it would do much but slow me for an instant and pull me off balance.
- But the outer top edge of the gutter ideally should line up with the roof plane and, therefore, be level.
- They get their water from a big trough replenished by rainwater from the roof gutter on the barn.
- In both projects, the rainwater falls from the roof without gutters, and open gravel trenches redirect the surface water.
- Users snap plastic clips to a roof gutter from a hand-held 9-foot telescoping pole.
- There was a broken gutter on the roof which was pouring down a waterfall.
- A figure separated from shadows where it had stood watching the strange woman, eyes drawn towards the undersized building with gutters lining its roof.
- If ice forms at the roof edge or at the gutter, this shield can prevent seepage back into the framing.
- In April 1996, a crew of outside contract workers was sent up onto the roof to clean gutters.
- I immediately went outside my home with a ladder and scooped up some of the fine silt that accumulates in my roof's rain gutters.
- The work started with repairs to the roof, gutters and windows and the job is expected to last eight months.
1. 1.1 A channel at the side of a street for carrying off rainwater.
  排雨槽，雨水槽，檐槽
  Example sentencesExamples
  All you can hope is that they might stumble too close to the edge of a rain-soaked gutter and be completely drenched by a passing car.
  Dogs are present throughout the street series, roaming the streets and sniffing the gutters.
  He was lying in the gutter at the side of a small road.
  The streets' surfaces were curved slightly, so that the middle was domed up above the rest and there were cluttered gutters along the edges.
  Unfortunately, the rain water picks up every kind of garbage on the streets and gutters, and washes it into the lake.
  He could see, even through his fogged windows, that the gutters of the streets below were flooded.
  When morning comes and the street sweepers clean the gutters, they are sometimes followed by vacuum trucks, lest the runoff contaminate the storm drains.
  While her parents shopped, Kate can remember sitting outside with Johnny and Alice, their feet in the gutter of the unpaved street.
  Her eye was caught by a gutter on the opposite side of the street.
  Owen stepped over the street gutter to reach the front door.
  The beginning involves a slick, wet cobblestone street and gutters flooded with England's notorious rainwater.
  Most of these flow from the streets and gutters, where they have been inappropriately disposed of, and into our waterways.
  Once the preserve of kids jumping gutters in suburban streets, bicycles are increasingly a viable alternative to cars.
  The sun shone brightly and the gutters on the side of the street shone and sparkled with the run-off from the melting snow.
  They were everywhere, streets, gutters, pavements, air.
  I sit here, my whole body aching and groaning, as if I've been bashed and left in a gutter by the side of the road.
  There was a girl out walking, staying in the gutters and in the street lights.
  It was stuck between two narrow residential streets and rode uncomfortably up to the gutters on each side, so that there was no sidewalk adjacent to the lot.
  It clogs up gutters and floods streets and spreads mud everywhere.
  These cities may also demand the finishing of streets, gutters and sidewalks in exchange for permit approval.
  Synonyms
  drain, sluice, sluiceway, culvert, spillway, flume, sewer
  channel, conduit, pipe, duct, chute
  trough, trench, ditch, furrow, cut
2. 1.2the gutter Used to refer to a poor or squalid existence or environment.
  贫贱的出身；贫穷（或肮脏）的环境
  men who had fought their way out of the gutter
  Example sentencesExamples
  Now look where rationalism in the context of liberal humanism has taken us - into the gutter of situation ethics.
  Why am I independent and able to give my daughter a first-rate education, when other women that had just as good opportunities are in the gutter?
  Now that our minds were out of the gutter we continued.
  The political party's descent into the gutter continues apace, with plans to further tighten already draconian anti asylum seeker legislation.
  But he managed to work his way out of the gutter, emerging as a celebrated artist with a steely determination to succeed.
3. 1.3technical A groove or channel for flowing liquid.
  〈技〉沟，槽
  Example sentencesExamples
  Domestic waste flowing through exposed, overflowing, fly-infested gutters are a sight as common as our coconut trees.
  Each gutter had become a flowing stream, and each dip in the road had become a ford to traverse.
  Make sure there are no cracks or open seams in your gutters or downspouts.
  The company allegedly dumps its waste into a gutter that flows into the river.
  The channel was stuffy and hotter than the outside, with about an inch of water along the bottom flowing down from the gutters and following the slight slant of the tunnel.
4. 1.4 A channel on either side of a lane in a bowling alley.
  （保龄球球道两边的）球槽
  Example sentencesExamples
  I then do the same thing on the next frame but the ball falls into the gutter and I cover the full rack spare.
  The balls roll down the gutter to the pin end of the lane for return to the bowler.
2The blank space between facing pages of a book or between adjacent columns of type or stamps in a sheet.
（书）左右两页中间的空白，订口；相邻两栏字之间的空白；（一版邮票上）邮票之间的空隙
Example sentencesExamples
- Some are flush with the gutter or even leaping off the top of the page and as such are visually confusing.
- The blocks of text are placed carefully but without regard to page margin or gutters - so the space of the text is ‘freed.’
- The gutter, that tight space of the spine that is pinched by the binding, is the one irrefutable physical fact of a book's existence as an object.
- The researchers also analyzed flakes of leftover pigments found in the gutters (inner margins) of the books.
- This stuff works in the gutters - the spaces between the panels, and between the pictures and words.
- A gutter margin helps ensure that text isn't obscured by the binding.
- On the left, across the gutter, appears a poem, complete on one page.
- As the book settles onto the right board, the left-hand pages are bent to a tight curve near the gutter.

verb ˈɡʌtəˈɡədər

1no object (of a candle or flame) flicker and burn unsteadily.
（蜡烛，火焰）摇曳不定，忽明忽暗
Example sentencesExamples
- After we said it a few times I felt the temperature of the room begin to decrease and the candles guttered out for a moment before coming back full force.
- As the day veered towards its pre-destined conclusion, the blue waters of the Indian Ocean glistened briefly, much like the last flicker of a guttering candle.
- The window was open and now and then the thin curtains stirred and the candle guttered.
- It was early evening, and the room was lighted by candles that guttered from time to time as an errant draught of air caught at them.
- He'd gotten about four sentences into it when a small gust of wind made the candles gutter and flicker, and made the incense smoke swirl and twist.
- The candle flickered, and after a moment, the little flame guttered out.
- She turned around and sprinted down the corridor, her candle guttered out, and she was plunged into complete darkness.
- His voice has taken on a hoarse note, a rough edge which hints at a time - not so long ago - when his own candle guttered, flickered and somehow didn't blow out.
- The old porch light bulb guttered, then rallied back.
- Shadows lifted from the floor like a flock of birds rising into the horizon, and light guttered throughout the room, slapping away the dark for good.
- They didn't seem to notice the wind started to howl through the town, making their torches gutter and their horses rear nervously.
- Other flyers were still fluttering from lampposts and stuck on empty buildings, some with candles guttering out beneath them.
- A blast of fire surged at him, but a single blade sweep tore it apart, the flames guttering into silence.
- Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers.
- Torches on the walls guttered and popped, casting a dim, flickering light over the stone walls.
- The light flickered uncertainly for a moment like a guttering candle.
- It is hours since the campfire guttered to ash, but the stars remain alight, burning with fluid intensity.
- Torches guttered in iron sconces set about the cavern and cabinets emerged at bizarre angles from ancient columns of stone etched with unnatural runes.
- Below them, outside the windows was the soft glow of her anchor light beacon and across the room the candle guttered and went out.
- Every now and then there was a gust and all the lamps guttered perilously.
Synonyms
glimmer, glint, gleam, flare, shine, dance, gutter
2archaic with object Make channels or furrows in (something)
my cheeks are guttered with tears
我的面庞满是泪痕。
Example sentencesExamples
- Lapping against the ship's immense, rust-coloured flanks is a rippling sea of undulating hills covered with callitris pines and guttered by creeks lined with river red gums.
1. 2.1gutter downno object Flow in streams.
  the raindrops gutter down her visage
  雨滴从她脸上淌下。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So as the raindrops guttered down my windshield, I started off.
  Until tomorrow, when the rain will gutter down streams and we will dash for cover, I will smile my way to sleep, low-flying planes and yelling teenage drinkers won't touch me.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French gotiere, from Latin gutta 'a drop'; the verb dates from late Middle English, originally meaning 'cut grooves in' and later (early 18th century) used of a candle which melts rapidly because it has become channelled on one side.

‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,’ wrote Oscar Wilde in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892). A gutter was originally a watercourse, either a natural or an artificial one, and the word comes via Old French gotiere from Latin gutta ‘a drop’. In the 16th century this became ‘a furrow or track made by running water’, from which developed the main modern meaning. The gutter became the habitat of very poor people in the mid 19th century, and newspapers that pursue sensational stories about the private lives of public figures have been known as the gutter press since the end of that century. See also gout

Rhymes

abutter, aflutter, butter, Calcutta, clutter, constructor, cutter, declutter, flutter, mutter, nutter, scutter, shutter, splutter, sputter, strutter, stutter, utter

Definition of gutter in US English:

gutter

nounˈɡədərˈɡədər

1A shallow trough fixed beneath the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater.
排雨槽，雨水槽，檐槽
Example sentencesExamples
- Downspouts from roof gutters should route water away from the building.
- I immediately went outside my home with a ladder and scooped up some of the fine silt that accumulates in my roof's rain gutters.
- The work started with repairs to the roof, gutters and windows and the job is expected to last eight months.
- The gutters round the roofs of the wings were constructed in a manner which is now, as I understand it, obsolete.
- Users snap plastic clips to a roof gutter from a hand-held 9-foot telescoping pole.
- In both projects, the rainwater falls from the roof without gutters, and open gravel trenches redirect the surface water.
- In April 1996, a crew of outside contract workers was sent up onto the roof to clean gutters.
- There was a broken gutter on the roof which was pouring down a waterfall.
- If ice forms at the roof edge or at the gutter, this shield can prevent seepage back into the framing.
- For watering our garden, we direct rainwater from our roof gutters.
- You can get a £30 discount from your water bill if you can show that none of the water from your roof gutters or garden runs into a sewer.
- Stagnant water can be prevented from developing by stopping water collecting in places such as gutters and flat roofs by removing debris such as leaves and twigs.
- A figure separated from shadows where it had stood watching the strange woman, eyes drawn towards the undersized building with gutters lining its roof.
- But the outer top edge of the gutter ideally should line up with the roof plane and, therefore, be level.
- A drip edge is simply a piece of metal mounted on the edge of the roof to prevent water from curling underneath the edge of the roof and bypassing the gutters.
- I recall considering grabbing the gutter on the roof edge as it rose past me, but doubted it would do much but slow me for an instant and pull me off balance.
- Slates had been falling from the roof and that recently builders had placed planking in the gutters at roof level to stop the slates falling to the ground below.
- Mr Bowell revealed that the panels that shattered were on the old roof, above the gutter.
- They get their water from a big trough replenished by rainwater from the roof gutter on the barn.
- Water from this melting is trapped and creates an ice dam on the roof, gutters and downspouts.
1. 1.1 A channel at the side of a street for carrying off rainwater.
  排雨槽，雨水槽，檐槽
  Example sentencesExamples
  They were everywhere, streets, gutters, pavements, air.
  He could see, even through his fogged windows, that the gutters of the streets below were flooded.
  I sit here, my whole body aching and groaning, as if I've been bashed and left in a gutter by the side of the road.
  Unfortunately, the rain water picks up every kind of garbage on the streets and gutters, and washes it into the lake.
  The streets' surfaces were curved slightly, so that the middle was domed up above the rest and there were cluttered gutters along the edges.
  The beginning involves a slick, wet cobblestone street and gutters flooded with England's notorious rainwater.
  Once the preserve of kids jumping gutters in suburban streets, bicycles are increasingly a viable alternative to cars.
  All you can hope is that they might stumble too close to the edge of a rain-soaked gutter and be completely drenched by a passing car.
  Most of these flow from the streets and gutters, where they have been inappropriately disposed of, and into our waterways.
  He was lying in the gutter at the side of a small road.
  These cities may also demand the finishing of streets, gutters and sidewalks in exchange for permit approval.
  Owen stepped over the street gutter to reach the front door.
  It was stuck between two narrow residential streets and rode uncomfortably up to the gutters on each side, so that there was no sidewalk adjacent to the lot.
  The sun shone brightly and the gutters on the side of the street shone and sparkled with the run-off from the melting snow.
  Her eye was caught by a gutter on the opposite side of the street.
  When morning comes and the street sweepers clean the gutters, they are sometimes followed by vacuum trucks, lest the runoff contaminate the storm drains.
  It clogs up gutters and floods streets and spreads mud everywhere.
  While her parents shopped, Kate can remember sitting outside with Johnny and Alice, their feet in the gutter of the unpaved street.
  Dogs are present throughout the street series, roaming the streets and sniffing the gutters.
  There was a girl out walking, staying in the gutters and in the street lights.
  Synonyms
  drain, sluice, sluiceway, culvert, spillway, flume, sewer
2. 1.2the gutter Used to refer to a poor or squalid background or environment.
  贫贱的出身；贫穷（或肮脏）的环境
  only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter
  只是有钱人的特权才使他摆脱了贫贱的出身。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The political party's descent into the gutter continues apace, with plans to further tighten already draconian anti asylum seeker legislation.
  Now look where rationalism in the context of liberal humanism has taken us - into the gutter of situation ethics.
  Why am I independent and able to give my daughter a first-rate education, when other women that had just as good opportunities are in the gutter?
  But he managed to work his way out of the gutter, emerging as a celebrated artist with a steely determination to succeed.
  Now that our minds were out of the gutter we continued.
3. 1.3technical A groove or channel for flowing liquid.
  〈技〉沟，槽
  Example sentencesExamples
  Each gutter had become a flowing stream, and each dip in the road had become a ford to traverse.
  Domestic waste flowing through exposed, overflowing, fly-infested gutters are a sight as common as our coconut trees.
  Make sure there are no cracks or open seams in your gutters or downspouts.
  The company allegedly dumps its waste into a gutter that flows into the river.
  The channel was stuffy and hotter than the outside, with about an inch of water along the bottom flowing down from the gutters and following the slight slant of the tunnel.
4. 1.4 A channel on either side of a lane in a bowling alley.
  （保龄球球道两边的）球槽
  Example sentencesExamples
  The balls roll down the gutter to the pin end of the lane for return to the bowler.
  I then do the same thing on the next frame but the ball falls into the gutter and I cover the full rack spare.
2The blank space between facing pages of a book or between adjacent columns of type or stamps in a sheet.
（书）左右两页中间的空白，订口；相邻两栏字之间的空白；（一版邮票上）邮票之间的空隙
Example sentencesExamples
- This stuff works in the gutters - the spaces between the panels, and between the pictures and words.
- The gutter, that tight space of the spine that is pinched by the binding, is the one irrefutable physical fact of a book's existence as an object.
- On the left, across the gutter, appears a poem, complete on one page.
- As the book settles onto the right board, the left-hand pages are bent to a tight curve near the gutter.
- Some are flush with the gutter or even leaping off the top of the page and as such are visually confusing.
- A gutter margin helps ensure that text isn't obscured by the binding.
- The researchers also analyzed flakes of leftover pigments found in the gutters (inner margins) of the books.
- The blocks of text are placed carefully but without regard to page margin or gutters - so the space of the text is ‘freed.’

verbˈɡədərˈɡədər

1no object (of a candle or flame) flicker and burn unsteadily.
（蜡烛，火焰）摇曳不定，忽明忽暗
the candles had almost guttered out
烛火摇曳不定，几乎要熄灭了。
Example sentencesExamples
- His voice has taken on a hoarse note, a rough edge which hints at a time - not so long ago - when his own candle guttered, flickered and somehow didn't blow out.
- Torches guttered in iron sconces set about the cavern and cabinets emerged at bizarre angles from ancient columns of stone etched with unnatural runes.
- The light flickered uncertainly for a moment like a guttering candle.
- The candle flickered, and after a moment, the little flame guttered out.
- It was early evening, and the room was lighted by candles that guttered from time to time as an errant draught of air caught at them.
- A blast of fire surged at him, but a single blade sweep tore it apart, the flames guttering into silence.
- After we said it a few times I felt the temperature of the room begin to decrease and the candles guttered out for a moment before coming back full force.
- Below them, outside the windows was the soft glow of her anchor light beacon and across the room the candle guttered and went out.
- They didn't seem to notice the wind started to howl through the town, making their torches gutter and their horses rear nervously.
- Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers.
- Other flyers were still fluttering from lampposts and stuck on empty buildings, some with candles guttering out beneath them.
- It is hours since the campfire guttered to ash, but the stars remain alight, burning with fluid intensity.
- Shadows lifted from the floor like a flock of birds rising into the horizon, and light guttered throughout the room, slapping away the dark for good.
- As the day veered towards its pre-destined conclusion, the blue waters of the Indian Ocean glistened briefly, much like the last flicker of a guttering candle.
- The window was open and now and then the thin curtains stirred and the candle guttered.
- The old porch light bulb guttered, then rallied back.
- He'd gotten about four sentences into it when a small gust of wind made the candles gutter and flicker, and made the incense smoke swirl and twist.
- Torches on the walls guttered and popped, casting a dim, flickering light over the stone walls.
- She turned around and sprinted down the corridor, her candle guttered out, and she was plunged into complete darkness.
- Every now and then there was a gust and all the lamps guttered perilously.
Synonyms
glimmer, glint, gleam, flare, shine, dance, gutter
2archaic with object Channel or furrow with something such as streams or tears.
〈古〉因水流（或泪水等）在…上形成沟（或痕迹）
my cheeks are guttered with tears
我的面庞满是泪痕。
Example sentencesExamples
- Lapping against the ship's immense, rust-coloured flanks is a rippling sea of undulating hills covered with callitris pines and guttered by creeks lined with river red gums.
1. 2.1gutter downno object Stream down.
  the raindrops gutter down her visage
  雨滴从她脸上淌下。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So as the raindrops guttered down my windshield, I started off.
  Until tomorrow, when the rain will gutter down streams and we will dash for cover, I will smile my way to sleep, low-flying planes and yelling teenage drinkers won't touch me.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French gotiere, from Latin gutta ‘a drop’; the verb dates from late Middle English, originally meaning ‘cut grooves in’ and later (early 18th century) used of a candle which melts rapidly because it has become channelled on one side.

词汇	gutter
释义	Definition of gutter in English: gutter noun ˈɡʌtəˈɡədər 1A shallow trough fixed beneath the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater. 排雨槽，雨水槽，檐槽 Example sentencesExamples For watering our garden, we direct rainwater from our roof gutters. The gutters round the roofs of the wings were constructed in a manner which is now, as I understand it, obsolete. Water from this melting is trapped and creates an ice dam on the roof, gutters and downspouts. Slates had been falling from the roof and that recently builders had placed planking in the gutters at roof level to stop the slates falling to the ground below. A drip edge is simply a piece of metal mounted on the edge of the roof to prevent water from curling underneath the edge of the roof and bypassing the gutters. Mr Bowell revealed that the panels that shattered were on the old roof, above the gutter. Downspouts from roof gutters should route water away from the building. You can get a £30 discount from your water bill if you can show that none of the water from your roof gutters or garden runs into a sewer. Stagnant water can be prevented from developing by stopping water collecting in places such as gutters and flat roofs by removing debris such as leaves and twigs. I recall considering grabbing the gutter on the roof edge as it rose past me, but doubted it would do much but slow me for an instant and pull me off balance. But the outer top edge of the gutter ideally should line up with the roof plane and, therefore, be level. They get their water from a big trough replenished by rainwater from the roof gutter on the barn. In both projects, the rainwater falls from the roof without gutters, and open gravel trenches redirect the surface water. Users snap plastic clips to a roof gutter from a hand-held 9-foot telescoping pole. There was a broken gutter on the roof which was pouring down a waterfall. A figure separated from shadows where it had stood watching the strange woman, eyes drawn towards the undersized building with gutters lining its roof. If ice forms at the roof edge or at the gutter, this shield can prevent seepage back into the framing. In April 1996, a crew of outside contract workers was sent up onto the roof to clean gutters. I immediately went outside my home with a ladder and scooped up some of the fine silt that accumulates in my roof's rain gutters. The work started with repairs to the roof, gutters and windows and the job is expected to last eight months. 1.1 A channel at the side of a street for carrying off rainwater. 排雨槽，雨水槽，檐槽 Example sentencesExamples All you can hope is that they might stumble too close to the edge of a rain-soaked gutter and be completely drenched by a passing car. Dogs are present throughout the street series, roaming the streets and sniffing the gutters. He was lying in the gutter at the side of a small road. The streets' surfaces were curved slightly, so that the middle was domed up above the rest and there were cluttered gutters along the edges. Unfortunately, the rain water picks up every kind of garbage on the streets and gutters, and washes it into the lake. He could see, even through his fogged windows, that the gutters of the streets below were flooded. When morning comes and the street sweepers clean the gutters, they are sometimes followed by vacuum trucks, lest the runoff contaminate the storm drains. While her parents shopped, Kate can remember sitting outside with Johnny and Alice, their feet in the gutter of the unpaved street. Her eye was caught by a gutter on the opposite side of the street. Owen stepped over the street gutter to reach the front door. The beginning involves a slick, wet cobblestone street and gutters flooded with England's notorious rainwater. Most of these flow from the streets and gutters, where they have been inappropriately disposed of, and into our waterways. Once the preserve of kids jumping gutters in suburban streets, bicycles are increasingly a viable alternative to cars. The sun shone brightly and the gutters on the side of the street shone and sparkled with the run-off from the melting snow. They were everywhere, streets, gutters, pavements, air. I sit here, my whole body aching and groaning, as if I've been bashed and left in a gutter by the side of the road. There was a girl out walking, staying in the gutters and in the street lights. It was stuck between two narrow residential streets and rode uncomfortably up to the gutters on each side, so that there was no sidewalk adjacent to the lot. It clogs up gutters and floods streets and spreads mud everywhere. These cities may also demand the finishing of streets, gutters and sidewalks in exchange for permit approval. Synonyms drain, sluice, sluiceway, culvert, spillway, flume, sewer channel, conduit, pipe, duct, chute trough, trench, ditch, furrow, cut 1.2the gutter Used to refer to a poor or squalid existence or environment. 贫贱的出身；贫穷（或肮脏）的环境 men who had fought their way out of the gutter Example sentencesExamples Now look where rationalism in the context of liberal humanism has taken us - into the gutter of situation ethics. Why am I independent and able to give my daughter a first-rate education, when other women that had just as good opportunities are in the gutter? Now that our minds were out of the gutter we continued. The political party's descent into the gutter continues apace, with plans to further tighten already draconian anti asylum seeker legislation. But he managed to work his way out of the gutter, emerging as a celebrated artist with a steely determination to succeed. 1.3technical A groove or channel for flowing liquid. 〈技〉沟，槽 Example sentencesExamples Domestic waste flowing through exposed, overflowing, fly-infested gutters are a sight as common as our coconut trees. Each gutter had become a flowing stream, and each dip in the road had become a ford to traverse. Make sure there are no cracks or open seams in your gutters or downspouts. The company allegedly dumps its waste into a gutter that flows into the river. The channel was stuffy and hotter than the outside, with about an inch of water along the bottom flowing down from the gutters and following the slight slant of the tunnel. 1.4 A channel on either side of a lane in a bowling alley. （保龄球球道两边的）球槽 Example sentencesExamples I then do the same thing on the next frame but the ball falls into the gutter and I cover the full rack spare. The balls roll down the gutter to the pin end of the lane for return to the bowler. 2The blank space between facing pages of a book or between adjacent columns of type or stamps in a sheet. （书）左右两页中间的空白，订口；相邻两栏字之间的空白；（一版邮票上）邮票之间的空隙 Example sentencesExamples Some are flush with the gutter or even leaping off the top of the page and as such are visually confusing. The blocks of text are placed carefully but without regard to page margin or gutters - so the space of the text is ‘freed.’ The gutter, that tight space of the spine that is pinched by the binding, is the one irrefutable physical fact of a book's existence as an object. The researchers also analyzed flakes of leftover pigments found in the gutters (inner margins) of the books. This stuff works in the gutters - the spaces between the panels, and between the pictures and words. A gutter margin helps ensure that text isn't obscured by the binding. On the left, across the gutter, appears a poem, complete on one page. As the book settles onto the right board, the left-hand pages are bent to a tight curve near the gutter. verb ˈɡʌtəˈɡədər 1no object (of a candle or flame) flicker and burn unsteadily. （蜡烛，火焰）摇曳不定，忽明忽暗 Example sentencesExamples After we said it a few times I felt the temperature of the room begin to decrease and the candles guttered out for a moment before coming back full force. As the day veered towards its pre-destined conclusion, the blue waters of the Indian Ocean glistened briefly, much like the last flicker of a guttering candle. The window was open and now and then the thin curtains stirred and the candle guttered. It was early evening, and the room was lighted by candles that guttered from time to time as an errant draught of air caught at them. He'd gotten about four sentences into it when a small gust of wind made the candles gutter and flicker, and made the incense smoke swirl and twist. The candle flickered, and after a moment, the little flame guttered out. She turned around and sprinted down the corridor, her candle guttered out, and she was plunged into complete darkness. His voice has taken on a hoarse note, a rough edge which hints at a time - not so long ago - when his own candle guttered, flickered and somehow didn't blow out. The old porch light bulb guttered, then rallied back. Shadows lifted from the floor like a flock of birds rising into the horizon, and light guttered throughout the room, slapping away the dark for good. They didn't seem to notice the wind started to howl through the town, making their torches gutter and their horses rear nervously. Other flyers were still fluttering from lampposts and stuck on empty buildings, some with candles guttering out beneath them. A blast of fire surged at him, but a single blade sweep tore it apart, the flames guttering into silence. Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers. Torches on the walls guttered and popped, casting a dim, flickering light over the stone walls. The light flickered uncertainly for a moment like a guttering candle. It is hours since the campfire guttered to ash, but the stars remain alight, burning with fluid intensity. Torches guttered in iron sconces set about the cavern and cabinets emerged at bizarre angles from ancient columns of stone etched with unnatural runes. Below them, outside the windows was the soft glow of her anchor light beacon and across the room the candle guttered and went out. Every now and then there was a gust and all the lamps guttered perilously. Synonyms glimmer, glint, gleam, flare, shine, dance, gutter 2archaic with object Make channels or furrows in (something) my cheeks are guttered with tears 我的面庞满是泪痕。 Example sentencesExamples Lapping against the ship's immense, rust-coloured flanks is a rippling sea of undulating hills covered with callitris pines and guttered by creeks lined with river red gums. 2.1gutter downno object Flow in streams. the raindrops gutter down her visage 雨滴从她脸上淌下。 Example sentencesExamples So as the raindrops guttered down my windshield, I started off. Until tomorrow, when the rain will gutter down streams and we will dash for cover, I will smile my way to sleep, low-flying planes and yelling teenage drinkers won't touch me. Origin Middle English: from Old French gotiere, from Latin gutta 'a drop'; the verb dates from late Middle English, originally meaning 'cut grooves in' and later (early 18th century) used of a candle which melts rapidly because it has become channelled on one side. ‘We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,’ wrote Oscar Wilde in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892). A gutter was originally a watercourse, either a natural or an artificial one, and the word comes via Old French gotiere from Latin gutta ‘a drop’. In the 16th century this became ‘a furrow or track made by running water’, from which developed the main modern meaning. The gutter became the habitat of very poor people in the mid 19th century, and newspapers that pursue sensational stories about the private lives of public figures have been known as the gutter press since the end of that century. See also gout Rhymes abutter, aflutter, butter, Calcutta, clutter, constructor, cutter, declutter, flutter, mutter, nutter, scutter, shutter, splutter, sputter, strutter, stutter, utter Definition of gutter in US English: gutter nounˈɡədərˈɡədər 1A shallow trough fixed beneath the edge of a roof for carrying off rainwater. 排雨槽，雨水槽，檐槽 Example sentencesExamples Downspouts from roof gutters should route water away from the building. I immediately went outside my home with a ladder and scooped up some of the fine silt that accumulates in my roof's rain gutters. The work started with repairs to the roof, gutters and windows and the job is expected to last eight months. The gutters round the roofs of the wings were constructed in a manner which is now, as I understand it, obsolete. Users snap plastic clips to a roof gutter from a hand-held 9-foot telescoping pole. In both projects, the rainwater falls from the roof without gutters, and open gravel trenches redirect the surface water. In April 1996, a crew of outside contract workers was sent up onto the roof to clean gutters. There was a broken gutter on the roof which was pouring down a waterfall. If ice forms at the roof edge or at the gutter, this shield can prevent seepage back into the framing. For watering our garden, we direct rainwater from our roof gutters. You can get a £30 discount from your water bill if you can show that none of the water from your roof gutters or garden runs into a sewer. Stagnant water can be prevented from developing by stopping water collecting in places such as gutters and flat roofs by removing debris such as leaves and twigs. A figure separated from shadows where it had stood watching the strange woman, eyes drawn towards the undersized building with gutters lining its roof. But the outer top edge of the gutter ideally should line up with the roof plane and, therefore, be level. A drip edge is simply a piece of metal mounted on the edge of the roof to prevent water from curling underneath the edge of the roof and bypassing the gutters. I recall considering grabbing the gutter on the roof edge as it rose past me, but doubted it would do much but slow me for an instant and pull me off balance. Slates had been falling from the roof and that recently builders had placed planking in the gutters at roof level to stop the slates falling to the ground below. Mr Bowell revealed that the panels that shattered were on the old roof, above the gutter. They get their water from a big trough replenished by rainwater from the roof gutter on the barn. Water from this melting is trapped and creates an ice dam on the roof, gutters and downspouts. 1.1 A channel at the side of a street for carrying off rainwater. 排雨槽，雨水槽，檐槽 Example sentencesExamples They were everywhere, streets, gutters, pavements, air. He could see, even through his fogged windows, that the gutters of the streets below were flooded. I sit here, my whole body aching and groaning, as if I've been bashed and left in a gutter by the side of the road. Unfortunately, the rain water picks up every kind of garbage on the streets and gutters, and washes it into the lake. The streets' surfaces were curved slightly, so that the middle was domed up above the rest and there were cluttered gutters along the edges. The beginning involves a slick, wet cobblestone street and gutters flooded with England's notorious rainwater. Once the preserve of kids jumping gutters in suburban streets, bicycles are increasingly a viable alternative to cars. All you can hope is that they might stumble too close to the edge of a rain-soaked gutter and be completely drenched by a passing car. Most of these flow from the streets and gutters, where they have been inappropriately disposed of, and into our waterways. He was lying in the gutter at the side of a small road. These cities may also demand the finishing of streets, gutters and sidewalks in exchange for permit approval. Owen stepped over the street gutter to reach the front door. It was stuck between two narrow residential streets and rode uncomfortably up to the gutters on each side, so that there was no sidewalk adjacent to the lot. The sun shone brightly and the gutters on the side of the street shone and sparkled with the run-off from the melting snow. Her eye was caught by a gutter on the opposite side of the street. When morning comes and the street sweepers clean the gutters, they are sometimes followed by vacuum trucks, lest the runoff contaminate the storm drains. It clogs up gutters and floods streets and spreads mud everywhere. While her parents shopped, Kate can remember sitting outside with Johnny and Alice, their feet in the gutter of the unpaved street. Dogs are present throughout the street series, roaming the streets and sniffing the gutters. There was a girl out walking, staying in the gutters and in the street lights. Synonyms drain, sluice, sluiceway, culvert, spillway, flume, sewer 1.2the gutter Used to refer to a poor or squalid background or environment. 贫贱的出身；贫穷（或肮脏）的环境 only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter 只是有钱人的特权才使他摆脱了贫贱的出身。 Example sentencesExamples The political party's descent into the gutter continues apace, with plans to further tighten already draconian anti asylum seeker legislation. Now look where rationalism in the context of liberal humanism has taken us - into the gutter of situation ethics. Why am I independent and able to give my daughter a first-rate education, when other women that had just as good opportunities are in the gutter? But he managed to work his way out of the gutter, emerging as a celebrated artist with a steely determination to succeed. Now that our minds were out of the gutter we continued. 1.3technical A groove or channel for flowing liquid. 〈技〉沟，槽 Example sentencesExamples Each gutter had become a flowing stream, and each dip in the road had become a ford to traverse. Domestic waste flowing through exposed, overflowing, fly-infested gutters are a sight as common as our coconut trees. Make sure there are no cracks or open seams in your gutters or downspouts. The company allegedly dumps its waste into a gutter that flows into the river. The channel was stuffy and hotter than the outside, with about an inch of water along the bottom flowing down from the gutters and following the slight slant of the tunnel. 1.4 A channel on either side of a lane in a bowling alley. （保龄球球道两边的）球槽 Example sentencesExamples The balls roll down the gutter to the pin end of the lane for return to the bowler. I then do the same thing on the next frame but the ball falls into the gutter and I cover the full rack spare. 2The blank space between facing pages of a book or between adjacent columns of type or stamps in a sheet. （书）左右两页中间的空白，订口；相邻两栏字之间的空白；（一版邮票上）邮票之间的空隙 Example sentencesExamples This stuff works in the gutters - the spaces between the panels, and between the pictures and words. The gutter, that tight space of the spine that is pinched by the binding, is the one irrefutable physical fact of a book's existence as an object. On the left, across the gutter, appears a poem, complete on one page. As the book settles onto the right board, the left-hand pages are bent to a tight curve near the gutter. Some are flush with the gutter or even leaping off the top of the page and as such are visually confusing. A gutter margin helps ensure that text isn't obscured by the binding. The researchers also analyzed flakes of leftover pigments found in the gutters (inner margins) of the books. The blocks of text are placed carefully but without regard to page margin or gutters - so the space of the text is ‘freed.’ verbˈɡədərˈɡədər 1no object (of a candle or flame) flicker and burn unsteadily. （蜡烛，火焰）摇曳不定，忽明忽暗 the candles had almost guttered out 烛火摇曳不定，几乎要熄灭了。 Example sentencesExamples His voice has taken on a hoarse note, a rough edge which hints at a time - not so long ago - when his own candle guttered, flickered and somehow didn't blow out. Torches guttered in iron sconces set about the cavern and cabinets emerged at bizarre angles from ancient columns of stone etched with unnatural runes. The light flickered uncertainly for a moment like a guttering candle. The candle flickered, and after a moment, the little flame guttered out. It was early evening, and the room was lighted by candles that guttered from time to time as an errant draught of air caught at them. A blast of fire surged at him, but a single blade sweep tore it apart, the flames guttering into silence. After we said it a few times I felt the temperature of the room begin to decrease and the candles guttered out for a moment before coming back full force. Below them, outside the windows was the soft glow of her anchor light beacon and across the room the candle guttered and went out. They didn't seem to notice the wind started to howl through the town, making their torches gutter and their horses rear nervously. Eventually, the besotted warriors either passed out or crawled away as the torches guttered and smoked into mere embers. Other flyers were still fluttering from lampposts and stuck on empty buildings, some with candles guttering out beneath them. It is hours since the campfire guttered to ash, but the stars remain alight, burning with fluid intensity. Shadows lifted from the floor like a flock of birds rising into the horizon, and light guttered throughout the room, slapping away the dark for good. As the day veered towards its pre-destined conclusion, the blue waters of the Indian Ocean glistened briefly, much like the last flicker of a guttering candle. The window was open and now and then the thin curtains stirred and the candle guttered. The old porch light bulb guttered, then rallied back. He'd gotten about four sentences into it when a small gust of wind made the candles gutter and flicker, and made the incense smoke swirl and twist. Torches on the walls guttered and popped, casting a dim, flickering light over the stone walls. She turned around and sprinted down the corridor, her candle guttered out, and she was plunged into complete darkness. Every now and then there was a gust and all the lamps guttered perilously. Synonyms glimmer, glint, gleam, flare, shine, dance, gutter 2archaic with object Channel or furrow with something such as streams or tears. 〈古〉因水流（或泪水等）在…上形成沟（或痕迹） my cheeks are guttered with tears 我的面庞满是泪痕。 Example sentencesExamples Lapping against the ship's immense, rust-coloured flanks is a rippling sea of undulating hills covered with callitris pines and guttered by creeks lined with river red gums. 2.1gutter downno object Stream down. the raindrops gutter down her visage 雨滴从她脸上淌下。 Example sentencesExamples So as the raindrops guttered down my windshield, I started off. Until tomorrow, when the rain will gutter down streams and we will dash for cover, I will smile my way to sleep, low-flying planes and yelling teenage drinkers won't touch me. Origin Middle English: from Old French gotiere, from Latin gutta ‘a drop’; the verb dates from late Middle English, originally meaning ‘cut grooves in’ and later (early 18th century) used of a candle which melts rapidly because it has become channelled on one side.
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