gutter

1. N-COUNT Thegutter is the edge of a road next to the pavement, where rainwater collects and flows away. (路邊的) 排水溝

It is supposed to be washed down the gutter and into the city's vast sewerage system. 它應該被沖入排水溝，流入城市的巨大排汙系統。

2. N-COUNT A gutter is a plastic or metal channel attached to the lower edge of the roof of a building, which rainwater drains into. (房簷的) 排水槽

Did you fix the gutter?

你脩過排水槽了嗎？

3. N-SING If someone is in the gutter, they are very poor and live in a very bad way. 貧民窟

Instead of ending up in jail or in the gutter he was remarkably successful. 他最後不但沒有坐牢或流落貧民窟，反而還非常成功。