floodgates

n.水闸；水门；防潮水闸；制约（怒气）

floodgate───n.水闸；水门；防潮水闸；制约（怒气）

floodwaters───n.洪水（floodwater的复数形式）

bloodgate───血门

floodwater───n.洪水

elongates───vt.拉长；使延长；使伸长；vi.拉长；延长；伸长；adj.伸长的；延长的

floodmarks───洪水遗迹

floodtides───峰值

floodwalls───n.防洪岸壁，防洪石堤

floodways───n.分洪河道；泄洪道

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。

In fact, "you might open the floodgates!"───事实上，“你会打开记忆的阀门！”

It does seem to open the floodgates.───这确实像是打开了水闸。

The Nigerian authorities said the floodgates had to be opened because water levels have become dangerously high.───尼日利亚当局表示，由于河流水位上升到危险水平，他们不得不打开闸门。

And with the price of pig meat up 38 percent in major cities since the start of the year, the government is about to open its floodgates.───随着今年以来主要城市猪肉价格上涨超过38%，政府正筹划“开闸放肉”。

Some money is seeping out . . . If it continues like this, the floodgates could open.───如果这种情况继续下去，资金的闸门可能会打开。

"Let's not get carried away that the floodgates are about to open, " said Fraser Howie, an expert on China's capital markets.───“让我们不要忘乎所以，认为防洪闸将开启，”中国资本市场专家侯伟（FraserHowie）表示。

If this book is allowed to be published the floodgates will open.───如果这本书被允许出版，水闸将被放开。

Only willing to destroy the nation and completely decayed class, can open wide the floodgates to allow such a toadstool.───只有甘心毁灭的民族和完全腐朽的阶级，才能容许这种毒菌自由泛滥。

A move like this will open the floodgates.

The decision closes the floodgates to hundreds of potential appeals by convicted drink-drivers.

The case could open the floodgates for thousands of similar claims worldwide.

Political changes in eastern Europe opened the floodgates to thousands of people who wished to emigrate.

The floodgates opened then and Bordon piled up six more goals.

So he opened the floodgates of the South Platte River and unleashed 96 million gallons of rushing water.

There are fears that the floodgates will open and large numbers of parents will take their children out of school.

California's first execution may open the floodgates.

This easing of restrictions opened the floodgates for commercial Internet access.