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

• This opened the floodgates, allowing Web developers ( plus hobbyists, tinkerers, and others) to mash all sorts of data ( everything from nuclear disasters to Boston's CowParade cows) onto maps.
  这仿佛打开了一道大门，让Web开发人员（包括爱好者、修补程序开发人员和其他一些人）可以在地图中包含所有类型的数据（从原子弹灾难到波士顿的CowParade奶牛都可以）。
• Local governments have accumulated an unprecedented mountain of debt in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis after Beijing opened credit floodgates, backing state-owned banks to lend to state-backed infrastructure projects.
  2008年全球金融危机过后，北京方面打开信贷闸门，支持国有控股银行向政府支持的基建项目放贷，最终导致地方政府积累了金额空前的债务。
• But starting in late 2008, when the government opened the credit floodgates and ordered banks to lend as much as they could, all the careful risk management work appeared to go out the window.
  但从2008年末开始，政府打开了信贷闸门，下令银行尽可能多地发放贷款，于是，此前所有谨慎的风险控制工作，似乎被抛在脑后。
• 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。
• An epoch-making recital in 1978 in Beijing by Zhou Guangren opened the floodgates.
  1978年，周广仁在北京举行的一场划时代独奏会，开启了闸门。
• Thousands of people in the American state of Louisiana are being evacuated after floodgates were opened on Saturday to relieve pressure from the swollen Mississippi River.
  防洪闸门在周六被开启，缓解了暴涨的密西西比河的压力，随后路易斯安那州数千人被疏散。
• A decision against the cigarette companies could open the floodgates to many more lawsuits
  不利于烟草公司的裁决可能引发更多的官司。
• 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？
• Napster shut down in2001, opening the file-sharing floodgates.
  2001年，（旧版）Napster网站关闭，开启了文件共享之源。
• Her team's experiments, which will be outlined in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, found giving in to our bodily needs opens the floodgates to wanting more fulfilments.
  她的研究团队通过实验发现，对生理需求的屈从会促使人们去寻求更多满足。这项研究将发表在心理科学协会的月刊《心理科学》上。