If you siphon liquid from a container, you make it come out through a tube and down into a lower container by enabling the pressure of the air on it to push it out.
例句
She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum...她把一根塑料管放进嘴里，开始从一个巨大的金属桶里吸气。Tell Mac to siphon petrol out of his wagon.让马克把他车里的汽油抽出来。
N-COUNT
虹吸管
A siphon is a tube that you use for siphoning liquid.
VERB
抽取，抽出，挪用(金钱或资源)
If you siphon money or resources from something, you cause them to be used for a purpose for which they were not intended.
例句
He had siphoned thousands of pounds a week from the failing business...他一周之内从这家濒临破产的企业里抽走了数千英镑的资金。They siphon foreign aid money into their personal bank accounts.他们把国外救济金非法转入了个人银行账户。
英汉词典释义
n.
虹吸管
to flow through a siphon通过虹吸管
英英词典释义
Noun
1. a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that atmospheric pressure forces the liquid through the tube
Verb
1. convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon
2. move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action;