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.
双语例句
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。
来自柯林斯例句
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。
来自辞典例句
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.
来自互联网
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.
