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.
雙語例句
1. There you are driving along and wham! You hit a pothole.
你正開車走著——嘭，撞到了一個坑。
來自柯林斯例句
2. As the car sped over a pothole she lurched forward.
車子飛駛過一個坑洼時，她身子猛地向前一傾。
來自辭典例句
3. The labor - market recovery a pothole as the unemployment rate climbed.
失業(yè)率攀升,勞力市場復蘇遇挫.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
4. The pothole fractured a bolt on the axle.
壺穴使車軸上的一只螺釘破碎.
來自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
5. The young teacher knows every bump and pothole the 10 - minute ride to school . The thethe worst.