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What does the "gate" of Watergate mean?

Nixon's Watergate incident took place at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. The English name of this hotel is Watergate. Since then, adding gate to the text has become synonymous with political scandals, and then extended to all scandals.

Chinese translation, gate is the door, which shows that the door is the name of the scandal. ....

It turns out that this "door" is the "door", which stands for scandal.