Drain
[dreɪn] or [dren]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it.
(noun.) a gradual depletion of energy or resources; 'a drain on resources'; 'a drain of young talent by emigration'.
(noun.) a pipe through which liquid is carried away.
(noun.) tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material.
(verb.) empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; 'We drained the oil tank'.
(verb.) deplete of resources; 'The exercise class drains me of energy'.
(verb.) flow off gradually; 'The rain water drains into this big vat'.
博妮塔校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to cause the exhaustion of.
(v. t.) To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie.
(v. t.) To filter.
(v. i.) To flow gradually; as, the water of low ground drains off.
(v. i.) To become emptied of liquor by flowing or dropping; as, let the vessel stand and drain.
(n.) The act of draining, or of drawing off; gradual and continuous outflow or withdrawal; as, the drain of specie from a country.
(n.) That means of which anything is drained; a channel; a trench; a water course; a sewer; a sink.
(n.) The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains.
本杰明錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Draw off.[2]. Empty, exhaust.[3]. Make dry, clear of water or moisture.
v. n. [1]. Flow off.[2]. Become dry.
n. Sewer, channel, trench, water-course.
达伦編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Draw, strain, drip, percolate, drop, exhaust, empty, dry
ANT:Replenish, fill, supply, pour, moisten, drown, inundate, drench, swill
手打:西格蒙德
解釋/意思:
v.t. to draw off by degrees: to filter: to clear of water by drains: to make dry: to drink dry: to exhaust.—v.i. to flow off gradually.—n. a watercourse: a ditch: a sewer: (slang) a drink: exhausting expenditure.—adj. Drain′able.—ns. Drain′age the drawing off of water by rivers or other channels: the system of drains in a town; Drain′age-basin the area of land which drains into one river; Drain′age-tube a tube of silver india-rubber glass &c. introduced by a surgeon into a wound or abscess to draw off pus &c.; Drain′er a utensil on which articles are placed to drain; Drain′ing-en′gine a pumping-engine for mines &c.; Drain′ing-plough a form of plough used in making drains; Drain′-pipe; Drain′-tile; Drain′-trap a contrivance for preventing the escape of foul air from drains but admitting the water into them.
富兰克林校對
例句/造句/用法:
- A drain for the boy,' said Toby, half-filling a wine-glass. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I should like to take a great deal of land, and drain it, and make a little colony, where everybody should work, and all the work should be done well. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- To preserve meat immerse for twenty minutes in the hot solution, after which let it drain for one hour; then pack in a well-closed vessel. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- She sucked the blood: she said she'd drain my heart, said Mason. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I assure you that two thousand pounds would be a drain upon her resources, and that the sum you name is utterly beyond her power. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- The enclosure of Norland Common, now carrying on, is a most serious drain. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- He was always a man of iron nerve, and the story is still told in India how he crawled down a drain after a wounded man-eating tiger. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- There was a bath in that corner, from which the water had been hastily drained off. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Of late it had been easy enough for me to look sad: a cankering evil sat at my heart and drained my happiness at its source--the evil of suspense. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- As she spoke, she drained the basin into the ashes of the fire, and broke the bottle on the hearth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The lack of water caused not only personal inconvenience and business paralysis, but it occasioned real danger of disease through unflushed sewers and insufficiently drained pipes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- He raised the glass to his lips as we went in and drained it at a draught. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The effervescence of boys on the street, wasted and perverted through neglect or persecution, was drained and applied to fine uses. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Fortifying himself with this assurance, Sikes drained the glass to the bottom, and then, with many grumbling oaths, called for his physic. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- My own family drains me to the last penny. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- It is certainly an unpleasant thing, replied Mr. Dashwood, to have those kind of yearly drains on one's income. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Not the drains, I hope? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- In a farm where all the necessary buildings, fences, drains, communications, etc. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Their buildings were furnished wi th systems of drains and flushes that seem to us altogether modern. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The absence of all valves renders it very suitable for draining marshes, and for other similar purposes, as the muddy water and suspended matters will not obstruct its action. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- In those countries, the universities are continually draining the church of all its most eminent men of letters. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Sometimes, I walk; sometimes, I proceed in cabs, draining the pocket of the schoolmaster who then follows in cabs. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- She poured out a cup, and drank it with a frightful avidity, which seemed desirous of draining the last drop in the goblet. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Garth has drawn me in uncommonly with repairs, draining, that sort of thing: I'm uncommonly out of pocket with one thing or another. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The knight made his obeisance, and showed his sense of the honour by draining a huge goblet in answer to it. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
整理:怀亚特