Definition
水门 literally means 'water gate' and refers to a floodgate or water valve used to control water flow. It is also the Chinese term for the Watergate scandal (水门事件), and in modern political discourse can be used as a shorthand for high-level political scandals, following the English pattern of '-gate' suffixes.
n.
water valvefloodgate (physical water control gate)Watergate (the 1970s U.S. political scandal, or by extension any major political scandal)
Examples
- 水门。Gōngrén zhèngzài jiǎnxiū shuǐkù de shuǐ mén.Workers are repairing the reservoir's floodgate.
- 水门。Zhè qǐ zhèngzhì chǒuwén bèi chēngwéi xīn shuǐ mén shìjiàn.This political scandal has been called a new Watergate incident.
- 水门，。Dǎkāi shuǐ mén, guàngài shuǐ jiù huì liúrù nóngtián.Open the water valve, and irrigation water will flow into the farmland.
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