Pool
[puːl] or [pul]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets.
(noun.) an excavation that is (usually) filled with water.
(noun.) an organization of people or resources that can be shared; 'a car pool'; 'a secretarial pool'; 'when he was first hired he was assigned to the pool'.
(noun.) something resembling a pool of liquid; 'he stood in a pool of light'; 'his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines'.
(noun.) a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid; 'there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain'; 'the body lay in a pool of blood'.
(noun.) the combined stakes of the betters.
(noun.) any communal combination of funds; 'everyone contributed to the pool'.
(verb.) join or form a pool of people.
(verb.) combine into a common fund; 'We pooled resources'.
錄入:提托--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A small and rather deep collection of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream; a reservoir for water; as, the pools of Solomon.
(n.) A small body of standing or stagnant water; a puddle.
(n.) The stake played for in certain games of cards, billiards, etc.; an aggregated stake to which each player has contributed a snare; also, the receptacle for the stakes.
(n.) A game at billiards, in which each of the players stakes a certain sum, the winner taking the whole; also, in public billiard rooms, a game in which the loser pays the entrance fee for all who engage in the game; a game of skill in pocketing the balls on a pool table.
(n.) In rifle shooting, a contest in which each competitor pays a certain sum for every shot he makes, the net proceeds being divided among the winners.
(n.) Any gambling or commercial venture in which several persons join.
(n.) A combination of persons contributing money to be used for the purpose of increasing or depressing the market price of stocks, grain, or other commodities; also, the aggregate of the sums so contributed; as, the pool took all the wheat offered below the limit; he put $10,000 into the pool.
(n.) A mutual arrangement between competing lines, by which the receipts of all are aggregated, and then distributed pro rata according to agreement.
(n.) An aggregation of properties or rights, belonging to different people in a community, in a common fund, to be charged with common liabilities.
(v. t.) To put together; to contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of; as, the companies pooled their traffic.
(v. i.) To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction.
整理:凯蒂
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Pond (small), mere, LOCH, lake.[2]. Puddle, plash, collection of standing water.
整理:胡安妮塔
解釋/意思:
n. the receptacle for the stakes in certain games: the stakes themselves: a set of players at quadrille &c.: a game played on a billiard-table with six pockets by two or more persons.—v.t. to put into a common fund for redistribution.—v.i. to form a pool.
n. a small body of water: a deep part of a stream of water.—n. Pool′er a stick for stirring a tan-vat.
校對:克劳斯
例句/造句/用法:
- A horn-handled clasp knife was lying in a pool of blood beside him. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- These ovens were always built on the banks of a stream, a big spring, or pool of water. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But I knew well enough how to 'shoot' the bridge after seeing it done, and so began to row about among the shipping in the Pool, and down to Erith. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Rimsmoor Pond is, but Oker's Pool isn't, because he is deep, and is never dry--'tis just over there. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- A quiet pool and a pebble will help to make it clear to us. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Occasionally an ember rolled off the bank, and dropped with a hiss into the pool. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- She had also asked him twice to dine at Rosings, and had sent for him only the Saturday before, to make up her pool of quadrille in the evening. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- No rustling of the leaves--no bird's note in the wood--no cry of water-fowl from the pools of the hidden lake. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He could only see the black, bottomless pools of her eyes. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The wind blew roughly, the wet squalls came rattling past them, skimming the pools on the road and pavement, and raining them down into the river. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The Pussum lay in her bed, motionless, her round, dark eyes like black, unhappy pools. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The night had been very wet: large pools of water had collected in the road: and the kennels were overflowing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It is not four feet deep anywhere, and it is all puddles and pools. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Up there it looked like a trout stream, flowing swiftly with shallow stretches and pools under the shadow of the rocks. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- We all agreed we ought to back him and pooled one hundred lire. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
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