| 单词 | manhole |
| 释义 | manhole (mænhoʊl ) Word forms: manholes countable noun A manhole is a large hole in a road or path, covered by a metal plate that can be removed. Workers climb down through manholes when they want to examine or clean the drains. The most common shape for a manhole is of course the circle. Collocations: open manhole During a street fight, he fell down an open manhole cover, dropping eighteen feet into a pool of boiling water that was gushing from a pipe. Times, Sunday Times It looks dangerous, as if the reader might disappear into an open manhole at any moment. The Times Literary Supplement Large downdraft fans, usually powered by gasoline engines, are placed on top of open manholes at either end of the section to be tested. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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