名词 channel:

1. a path over which electrical signals can pass

2. a passage for water (or other fluids) to flow through

3. a long narrow furrow cut either by a natural process (such as erosion) or by a tool (as e.g. a groove in a phonograph record)

4. a deep and relatively narrow body of water (as in a river or a harbor or a strait linking two larger bodies) that allows the best passage for vessels

5. (often plural) a means of communication or access

6. a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance

7. a television station and its programs

8. a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors

channeln.频道；海峡；方法；通道；（消息）渠道vt.引导；形成河道；集中（精力）channel input信道输入channel rules信道规律channel black槽法炭黑channel grade通道等级channel works渠道工程channel glass槽形玻璃channel share槽形犁铧,槽形挖掘铲channel oxide沟道区域氧化物channel image频道形象channel start通道启动

1. A borough of southern Wales west-northwest of Cardiff. It is an industrial port on Swansea Bay, an inlet of the Bristol Channel. Population, 188,500.
   斯旺西威尔士南部市镇，位于卡迪夫西北偏西。是布里斯托尔海峡的小海湾斯旺西湾的一个工业港口。人口188, 500
2. Deep grooves channelled the soft rock.
   在软岩石上形成许多深槽。
3. Water is channelled through a series of irrigation canals.
   把水引入一系列灌溉渠中。
4. A pipe or channel used to conduct gas or liquid around another pipe or a fixture.
   迂回管道用于引导气体或液体绕过其它管道或装置的一种管道或渠道