drain

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n. 排水沟, 消耗, 排水 vt. 排出, 喝光, 耗尽 vi. 排水, 流干

发音

/dɹeɪn/
US /dɹiːn/

词形变化

drains 复数 drains drained drainest draineth draining drains 三单 draining 现在分词 drained 过去式 drained 过去分词

别名

draine drein dreen

教材释义与例句

名词

排水；下水道，排水管；消耗

动词

喝光，耗尽；使流出；排掉水

动词

排水；流干

释义与例句

n. B2
  1. 1.

    A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)

    加拿大 美国

    The drain in the kitchen sink is clogged.

  2. 2.

    An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.

    英国
  3. 3.

    A natural or artificial watercourse which drains a tract of land.

    Saganing Drain, Vermuyden's Drain, the South Drain river, Najafgarh drain

    […] the little runs and drains, that come through the hills, and to the sources of the creeks and their branches.

  4. 4.

    Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.

    That rental property is a drain on our finances.

  5. 5.

    An act of urination.

    粗俗
  6. 6.

    One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).

    商务 工程 物理 电子
  7. 7.

    An outhole.

  8. 8.

    A drink.

    英国 过时 俚语
v. C1 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    To lose liquid.

    排水

    不及物

    The clogged sink drained slowly.

    Knock knock. / Who’s there? / Dwayne. / Dwayne who? / Drain the bathtub, I’m drowning.

  2. 2.

    To flow gradually.

    不及物

    The water of low ground drains off.

  3. 3.

    To cause liquid to flow out of.

    及物

    Please drain the sink. It’s full of dirty water.

  4. 4.

    To convert a perennially wet place into a dry one.

    及物

    They had to drain the swampy land before the parking lot could be built.

  5. 5.

    To deplete of energy or resources.

    及物

    The stress of this job is really draining me.

  6. 6.

    To draw off by degrees; to cause to flow gradually out or off; hence, to exhaust.

    及物
  7. 7.

    To filter.

    废旧 及物
  8. 8.

    To fall off the bottom of the playfield.

    不及物
  9. 9.

    To drink.

    古体 俚语 及物

    But when I strove my flame to tell, / Says she, 'Come, stow that patter, / If you're a cove wot likes a gal, / Vy don't you stand some gatter?' / In course I instantly complied— / Two brimming quarts of porter, / With sev'ral goes of gin beside, / Drain'd Bet the Coaley's daughter.

  10. 10.

    To make a shot.

    俚语 及物 体育 游戏

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

drainage drainpipe waste pipe

上位词 9

pipe tube evacuation piping emptying tubing depletion pipage voidance

下位词 9

trap drawing sewer scupper brain drain cloaca culvert sewerage soil pipe
动词

同义词 3

debilitate run out enfeeble

上位词 10

course use run eat empty feed flow consume exhaust weaken

下位词 3

waste emaciate macerate

相关短语

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词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-der. Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *draugiz Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną Old English drēahnian Middle English dreinen English drain Inherited from Middle English dreinen, from Old English drēahnian (“to drain, strain, filter”), from Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną (“to strain, sieve”), from *draugiz (“dry, parched”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-, from *dʰer-. Akin to Old English drūgian (“to dry up”), Old English drūgaþ (“dryness, drought”), Old English drȳġe (“dry”). More at dry.

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