an artificial channel conveying water, typically used for transporting logs or timber (尤指输送木材的)水槽,人工渡槽 ■a winding tubular water slide at a swimming pool (游泳池的)弯滑水道 ■a water chute ride at an amusement park (游乐园的)滑水道游戏
语源
Middle English (denoting a river or stream): from Old French flum, from Latin flumen 'river', from fluere 'to flow'. The sense 'artificial channel' dates from the mid 18th cent.; 'water chute for amusement' is a late 20th-cent. usage