水费

I rang the water company to query my bill.

给来水公司打电话对账单上的水费提出疑问。

Insolvent tenants openly defied the collector of the waterrate from their ten-roomed strongholds, and existed for weeks without any visible means of procuring that necessary fluid.

无偿付能力的房客，公然反抗收缴他们的八居室要塞的水费的办事员，尽管看出他们有什么办法获得这种活所必需的液体，可他们已经继续存好几个礼拜了。