gutter

• n. 排水溝；槽；貧民區
• vi. 流；形成溝
• vt. 開溝於…；弄熄
• adj. 貧賤的；粗俗的；聳人聽聞的
• n. (Gutter)人名；(羅)古特爾；(英)格特

來自拉丁語gutta, 水滴，滴流，詞源同gout. 原指馬路下水道，後也指簷溝。

gutter

gutter: [13] Etymologically, a gutter is something along which ‘drops’ of water run. Its distant ancestor is Latin gutta ‘drop’ (source also of English gout). From it was formed the Vulgar Latin derivative *guttāria, which passed into English via Anglo-Norman gotere. The use of the word as a verb, meaning (of a flame) ‘flicker on the point of going out’, comes from the channel, or ‘gutter’, formed down one side of a candle by the melted wax flowing away.
=> gout

gutter (n.)

late 13c., "watercourse, water drainage channel along the side of a street," from Anglo-French gotere, Old French guitere, goutiere "gutter, spout" of water (12c., Modern French gouttière), from goute "a drop," from Latin gutta "a drop" (see gout). Meaning "furrow made by running water" is from 1580s. Meaning "trough under the eaves of a roof to carry off rainwater" is from mid-14c. Figurative sense of "low, profane" is from 1818. In printers' slang, from 1841.

gutter (v.)

late 14c., "to make or run in channels" (transitive), from gutter (n.). Intransitive use, in reference to candles (1706) it is from the channel that forms as the molten wax flows off. Related: Guttered; guttering.

1. The gutter press has held the royals up to ridicule.

黃色報刊公然奚落皇室成員。

來自柯林斯例句

2. There's a cigarette packet thrown into the gutter.

陰溝裏有個香煙盒.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. 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。

來自柯林斯例句

4. The creeper is growing in towards the gutter, and should be cleared away.

蔓草往溝裏生長, 應該除掉.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. He picked her out of the gutter and made her a great lady.

他使她脫離貧苦生活,並成為貴婦.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》