water cooler

短语

[化] 水冷器; 水冷却器 [医] 水冷器

词形变化

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别名

water-cooler

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A dispenser of cooled drinking water.

    饮水机

  2. 2.

    A location in the workplace where employees gather to chat or gossip.

    闲聊处

    比喻
  3. 1.

    A type of cooling device that uses water as the heat transfer medium.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of the nature of things discussed around a water cooler.

    In those days The Late Show was Monday water cooler topic du jour.

    water-cooler gossip, water-cooler talk, water-cooler conversation, water-cooler discussion

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

device

词源

For the gossip sense, compare scuttlebutt, of similar origin.

来源：wiktionary