seep

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vi. 渗出, 渗流, 漏 n. 小泉, 水陆两用吉普车

发音

其它 /siːp/

词形变化

seeps 复数 seeps seeped seepeth seeping seeps 三单 sept seeping 现在分词 seeped 过去式 seeped 过去分词

别名

sip

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small spring, pool, or other spot where liquid from the ground (e.g. water, petroleum or tar) has oozed to the surface; a place of seeping.

  2. 2.

    Moisture, liquid, gas, etc. that seeps out; a seepage.

  3. 3.

    The seeping away of a liquid, etc.

  4. 4.

    A seafloor vent.

v.
  1. 1.

    To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc.

    渗出

    不及物

    Water has seeped through the roof.

    The water steadily seeped in through the thirl.

  2. 2.

    To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse.

    比喻 不及物

    Woe seeped through her heart thinking of what had befallen their ethnic group.

    Fear began to seep into the local community over the contamination of their fishpond.

  3. 3.

    To diminish or wane away slowly.

    比喻 不及物

    The resistance movement against the invaders had slowly seeped away.

  4. 4.

    (of a crack etc.) To allow a liquid to pass through, to leak.

    及物

    The crack is seeping water.

  5. 5.

    To soak.

    苏格兰

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

ooze

上位词 4

course run feed flow

相关短语

seep mudalia

词源

Variant of sipe, from Middle English *sipen, from Old English sipian, from Proto-Germanic *sipōną, derivative of *sīpaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seyb-, *sib- (“to pour out, drip, trickle”). See also Middle Dutch sīpen (“to drip”), German Low German siepern (“to seep”), archaic German seifen (“to trickle blood”); also Latin sēbum (“suet, tallow”), Ancient Greek εἴβω (eíbō, “to drop, drip”)). See soap.

来源：wiktionary