商务英语：今日热词——多斗汲水车

多斗汲水车（名词）

(noun) A waterwheel with buckets attached to its rim so that it lifts water from a stream or river. (NOTE: often used to supply irrigation canals)

EXAMPLE: An old wooden noria revolved slowly beside the river, lifting water to the poor farmers nearby fields.

河边，一台老式的木制多斗汲水车在缓慢旋转，将水提到附近这些贫穷农民的田里。

脑子短路

A difficulty in remembering or doing something.

EXAMPLE: I have a mental block when I have to remember the names of people, and after two minutes I have forgotten who they are.

我在记忆人名时脑子就会短路，过了两分钟就想不起他们是谁。