a tube or passage down which people or things can slide （人或物可顺势滑下的）斜槽，溜道 a water chute (= at a swimming pool) 滑水槽 a laundry/rubbish/garbage chute (= from the upper floors of a high building) 洗衣滑槽；垃圾道（高层建筑上面各层用的）
Homophones chute | shootchute shoot- chute noun
The laundry chute leads down to the washer-dryer area in the basement. 洗衣槽通向地下室的洗衣干衣机区。
- shoot verb
The recruits are learning to shoot at targets. 新兵正在学习瞄准目标射击。
- shoot noun
She posed for the cameras as though for a fashion shoot. 她对着镜头摆好姿势，好像是为了拍时装。
Extra ExamplesHe tossed the discarded wrapping down the chute. 他将丢弃的包装材料扔下垃圾槽。 The rubbish goes down the chute into a large bin. 垃圾顺着滑道进入一个大垃圾桶。 a swimming pool with a long water chute 有长滑水槽的游泳池
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- garbage
- laundry
- rubbish
- …
- down a/the chute
- (informal)
a parachute (= a device that is attached to people or objects to make them fall slowly and safely when they are dropped from an aircraft. It consists of a large piece of thin cloth that opens out in the air.) 降落伞： 降落伞（一种附着在人或物体上的装置，当人或物体从飞机上坠落时，使它们缓慢而安全地掉落。它由一块大的薄布组成，该薄布向空中敞开。）
Word Originsense 1 early 19th cent. (originally a North American usage): from French, ‘fall’ (of water or rocks), from Old French cheoite, feminine past participle of cheoir ‘to fall’, from Latin cadere; influenced by shoot.sense 2 1920s: shortened form.