empty into

IPA/ˈɛmpti ˌɪntʊ/
IPA/ˈɛmpti ˌɪntʊ/

empty into — 片語動詞

  • empty intobase form
  • empties into3rd person singular
  • emptying into-ing form
  • emptied intopast simple

1. to carry water from a river or stream so that it joins a much bigger lake, sea,

1.片語動詞不及物B2
釋義

流入;注入

河流的水最後匯入大海、湖泊等較大水域

to carry water from a river or stream so that it joins a much bigger lake, sea, or ocean at the end of its path

例句

The Nile empties into the Mediterranean Sea near the city of Alexandria.

尼羅河在 Alexandria 城附近流入地中海。

[river] empties into [sea] for the end point of a river

Niran watched the muddy stream empty into the wide green lake below the hill.

Niran 看著那條混濁的小溪流入山丘下方寬闊的綠色湖泊。

[stream] empties into [lake]: smaller water joining larger water

常見搭配
  • empty into the sea
  • empty into a lake
  • empty into the ocean
  • empty into a bay
同義詞
  • flow into

    more general; any liquid movement, not only a river reaching its end

  • drain into

    stresses water leaving a land area or system and collecting somewhere

  • discharge into

    formal or technical; common for pipes, sewers, and rivers in reports

文法句型

[river] empties into [body of water]

用法筆記

Subject is almost always a moving body of water (river, stream, canal); the object after 'into' is a larger, often still body of water (sea, lake, ocean, bay). Rarely used of people or objects.

常見錯誤

The river empties to the sea.
The river empties into the sea.
this sense needs the preposition 'into', not 'to'.