watergates

watergates

美 [?w?t?r?ɡe?t] 　英 [?w??t?(r)?ɡe?t]

• n.水門事件；(類似水門事件的)政治丑聞
• v.使卷入丑聞
• 網絡水門案；水門大廈；水門大樓

詞形變化

復數：watergates  

英漢解釋

n.	1. 水門事件 2. (類似水門事件的)政治丑聞
v.	1. 使卷入丑聞

英英解釋

na.

1. a political event in the U.S. in the 1970s that caused President Nixon to give up his job. Reporters discovered that Nixon was using his power to secretly obtain information about his political opponents. The suffix -gate is now often used to make new words referring to situations that create embarrassing problems for powerful people.