1.gate的基本意思是“门,栅栏门”,指安装在围绕街巷或住宅的围墙上的门,也可指到里院的通路,可译作“城门、篱笆门、围墙门、大门、(围地的)门或门口”。引申可作“嘴,口”或“门径”解。是可数名词。
2.gate也可指机场候车室的“登机口”。
3.gate还可表示运动会、展览会等的“观众人数,门票收入”,作“观众人数”解时多用在英式英语中。

get the gate
被解雇,被开除; 被赶走 be fired; be driven away
 〔说明〕 get the gate本身已含有被动含义,故不用于被动结构。
He was very careless in his work, so that he really deserved to get the gate.他工作极不细心,所以他被开除是应该的。

give the gate
▲give sb the gate
1.赶走…,将…解雇 drive sb away; fire sb
The ball team give him the gate because he never came to practice.球队把他解雇了,因为他从不到队练球。
2.冷落; 抛弃 leave sb out in the cold; discard
Though they went together for two years, she finally met someone she liked better and gave George the gate.尽管他们来往已有两年,但她后来遇到了更为喜欢的人便把乔治抛弃了。

like a bull at a gate
凶猛地; 鲁莽地 in a clumsy way
Try to approach her the right way.She's dead if scared of policemen and you will get nothing out of her if you go at it like a bull at a gate.要用恰当的方式接近她,她对警察怕得要命,如果你来得粗暴,你休想从她那里掏出什么情报。

He commanded that all the gates be shut.他命令关闭所有的大门。
They need such a timber to build the gate of their school.他们需要这种木料来做学校大门。
He batted the gate with his hand.他用手敲打院门。
The truck only just cleared the gate.卡车刚好能从大门中间穿过。
They blocked the compound gate.No one of the bandits got away.他们堵住大门,匪徒一个也没跑掉。
He jumped over the gate into the field.他跳过栅门进入田野。
He opened the garden gate and went up to the door of the house.他打开花园的门而走向房屋的门。
The horse is tied to a gate.这马拴在门口。
Who is that standing in that gate?站在大门口的人是谁?
Our flight is boarding at gate number 12.我们的航班在12号门登机。
There was a gate of thousands.观众成千上万。
The two teams divided a gate of $ 3250.两队平分3250美元的票房收入。
Shut your gate.闭嘴。
Hard work is the gate to success.努力工作是成功的必经之路。

gate, door
参见door条。
gate, gateway
这两个词意思并不相同。gate通常指城门、闸门等,或指学校、工厂、体育场等的大门; 而gateway一般指由房子通往大门(gate)或大门通往外界的“通道”“门户”“大门口”。gateway还可引申指办事的“方法”“手段”等。例如:
He commanded that all the gates be shut.他命令关闭所有的大门。
Don't stand there blocking the gateway!不要站在那儿挡住门口!
Hard work is the gateway to success.努力工作是通往成功之路。
下面两个短语意思不同:
open the gate for sb
为某人打开大门
open the gate to sb
向某人打开大门

gate还表示“城楼”。例如:
Tian An Men Gate天安门城楼。

［同义词］   door, doorway, entrance, exit, passage, port
［词源］  ＜古英语geat(门,通路)