fire hydrant

常見例句

I once heard a saying that getting information from the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
我就曾聽過這樣一個(gè)說法，從網(wǎng)絡(luò)汲取信息正如從消防栓處飲水一樣，源源不斷。
Stuck at an angle near a buried fire hydrant, they were pushing and spinning and getting nowhere, with the smell of burning rubber noxiously sharp in the cold air.
附近有一樁被大雪覆蓋的消防栓，車子被卡住了，她們推、轉(zhuǎn)都使過了，沒有進(jìn)展，凜冽的空氣中卻充斥著刺鼻的橡膠味。
One of its early victories was in Jerusalem, where it found that a fire hydrant was indeed being used to fill a private swimming pool—pulling the plug, as it were, on a very surprised water thief.
探測(cè)引擎在耶路撒冷取得初步的成功，它發(fā)現(xiàn)一個(gè)消火栓實(shí)際在用來為一個(gè)私人泳池蓄水。似乎，供水的突然停止得讓這個(gè)偷水的家伙目瞪口呆。

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Once there, firefighters have to plug their engine into a fire hydrant--the equivalent of a wall jack in the information world.
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