floodgates

英 [ˈflʌdgeɪts]

美 [ˈflʌdˌgeɪts]

网络  水闸; 闸门; 防洪闸; 水闸理论; 诉讼闸门

双语例句

• These conversation topics will open up her emotional floodgates.
  这样的话题能够打开她情绪的闸门。
• Last Tuesday Janine Huard, now79, became the first still sane survivor to be offered compensation, and legal experts believe her secret settlement will open the floodgates for other victims.
  上周二，现今79岁的杰妮？华尔德成为第一个依然神智清醒并且获得了赔偿的幸存者。法律专家认为，这一秘密赔偿将会为其他受害者索赔打开水闸门。
• Would it not set a precedent? Would it not open the floodgates?
  难道它不会成为先例吗？难道它不会引发更多类似的问题吗？
• This is the key to unlock the floodgates.
  这是打开感情洪水坝的钥匙。
• Opening the floodgates to foreign investment, even from China, could trigger destabilising social change.
  向外资敞开大门，即便仅向中资敞开，也可能引发有损稳定的社会转变。
• North Korea opened floodgates Sunday morning on a hydropower dam on its side of the North-South border.
  北韩星期天上午打开南北韩分界线北韩一侧一座水电站大坝的闸门。
• You want an industry to have the chance to find its own voice before you open the floodgates, he said.
  你会想让这个产业在打开闸门前，有机会找到自己的声音，李威达。
• Some Fed officials considered Chile and India as possible recipients, but were reluctant to open the 'floodgates' to requests from other countries.
  一些美联储官员也曾考虑把智利和印度作为提供美元互换协议的潜在对象，但却不愿打开向其他国家提供美元的闸门。
• This opened the floodgates of revolution.
  这就打开了革命的闸门。
• Political changes in eastern Europe opened the floodgates to thousands of people who wished to emigrate.
  东欧的政治剧变打开了移民的泄洪闸，成千上万的人急于移民他国。