• 基础释义
  • 例句
  • 柯林斯词典释义
例句
柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
  • VERB
    通过虹吸管吸(或输送、抽干)
    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。