pothole

• n. 壶穴
• vi. 探索洞穴

pot,罐子，hole,洞。比喻用法。

pothole (n.)

also pot-hole, 1826, originally a geological feature in glaciers and gravel beds, from Middle English pot "a deep hole for a mine, or from peat-digging" (late 14c.), now generally obsolete, but preserved in Scotland and northern England dialect; perhaps ultimately related to pot (n.1) on notion of "deep, cylindrical shape." Applied to a hole in a road from 1909.

1. There you are driving along and wham! You hit a pothole.

你正开车走着——嘭，撞到了一个坑。

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2. As the car sped over a pothole she lurched forward.

车子飞驶过一个坑洼时，她身子猛地向前一倾。

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3. The labor - market recovery a pothole as the unemployment rate climbed.

失业率攀升,劳力市场复苏遇挫.

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4. The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle.

壶穴使车轴上的一只螺钉破碎.

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5. The young teacher knows every bump and pothole the 10 - minute ride to school . The thethe worst.

这位年轻的老师熟悉这条往学校的10分钟路上每一个馒头和路上的坑洞.

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