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词汇 pool
释义 pool
noun
uk /puːl/ us /puːl/

poolnoun (LIQUID)


B2[ C ]
a small area of usually still water: 水塘,水池,潭
We looked for crabs in the rock pools along the seashore.我们在海边岩石的水坑里找螃蟹。
 
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B2[ C ]
a small amount of liquid on a surface: (液体的)一滩,一片
a pool of blood/oil一滩血/油
figurativea pool of light一小片光亮
A2[ C ]
a swimming pool: 游泳池(同 swimming pool)
I spent most of my holiday lying/sunbathing by the pool.我假期的大部分时间都在游泳池旁躺着/晒太阳。
 
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The boys were splashing about and ducking each other in the pool.
I just managed to grab hold of Lucy before she fell in the pool.我刚好在露西要掉进水池时抓住了她。
a pool of sunlight
She looked at her reflection in the deep green pool of water.
She dipped her toe into the pool to see how cold it was.她把脚趾伸到游泳池里试试水有多凉。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inland waters
catchment area
catchment management
fiord
fjord
L, l
lake
Lake Baikal
loch
lough
oasis
oxbow lake
pond
ribbon lake
slop
stretch
tank
tarn
the Great Lakes
waterhole
waterway

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Water in general
Swimming

poolnoun (COLLECTION)


[ C ]
a number of people or a quantity of a particular thing, such as money, collected together for shared use by several people or organizations: 共享人员;共享资金;共享资源
Patrick crashed a Ford that he'd borrowed from the car pool at work.帕特里克把他从公司车队借的一辆福特汽车撞坏了。
As unemployment rises, the pool of cheap labour increases.随着失业的上升,廉价劳动力的数量也在增加。
During times of mass unemployment, there's a pool of cheap labour for employers to draw from.在人们大批失业的时候,有大量廉价劳动力供雇主选用。
Did Gary win the office pool?
Everybody puts some money into a common pool.
We need a reserve pool of cash, just to be on the safe side.
We're recruiting from a large pool of graduate lawyers.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Groups and collections of things
age bracket
agglomerate
agglomeration
Aladdin's cave
anthology
array
basket
bunch
crop
empty set
ensemble
family
feast
glory box
portfolio
selection
sheaf
sheaves
starter pack
store cupboard

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Amounts of money

poolnoun (MONEY)


[ C ]
in some card games, an amount of money that is collected from all the players and received by the player who wins the game彩池(在一些纸牌游戏中,所有玩家都要先支付一定金额的钱,最后胜出者将能赢得整笔款项,此款项称为彩池)
[ C ]US
the money risked by a number of people on the result of a game or event: (一众参与者的)全部赌注
a baseball/football/hockey pool棒球/足球/曲棍球赌注
the office pool办公室合赌
Who won the pool?谁赢了这次合赌?
 the pools[ plural ]UK(alsofootball pools)
a type of gambling in which people risk a small amount of money and try to guess the results of football games correctly and win a lot of money: 足球赌博
do the poolsThey do the pools every week.他们每个星期都赌球。
His brother won £150,000 on the pools.
Other than winning the football pools, we have no chance of owning our own house.
She booked the cruise after a lucky win on the pools.
When she was in her thirties, she won a small fortune on the football pools.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Card games
all in
bidding
blackjack
bridge
busted flush
canasta
card sharp
deal
deuce
diamond
jack
queen
re-raise
rebid
recut
rookie card
solitaire
spade
stick
straight

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Amounts of money
Gambling & bookmaking

poolnoun (GAME)


B1[ U ]
a game in which two people use cues (= long, thin poles) to hit 16 coloured balls into six holes around the edge of a large table covered in soft cloth: 落袋台球
a pool table/room/hall落袋台球桌/球房
mainly USinformalDo you want to shoot(= play) some pool?你想打台球吗?
Compare
snookernoun
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Snooker, pool & billiards
baize
bank
bank shot
billiard
billiard ball
billiards
break (something) off
carom
cue
cue ball
cushion
frame
miscue
pocket
pot
rack
re-rack
shoot
snooker
snooker ball
pool
verb[ T ]
uk /puːl/ us /puːl/
to collect something such as money in order for it to be used by several different people or groups: (为不同人士或团体)集合(资金/资源)
The kids pooled their money to buy their parents a wedding anniversary gift.孩子们把钱凑在一起为父母买了结婚周年礼物。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Collecting and amassing
accumulate
agglomerate
aggregation
amass
assemble
compile
completism
completist
compost
concentrate
concentration
cumulate
fundraise
fundraising
harvest
put something together
rake something up
reassemble
reconcentrate
reconcentration

pool | American Dictionary


pool
noun
us/pul/

poolnoun (LIQUID)


[ C ]
a small area of usually still water, or a small amount of liquid:
pools of water in the gutter
a pool of blood
[ C ]
A pool is also a swimming pool.

poolnoun (COLLECTION)


[ C ]
an amount of money or a number of people or things collected together for shared use by several people or organizations:
Their profits get plowed back into a pool to pay subscribers’ claims.
[ C ]
A pool is also the total amount of money risked by people on the result of a card game or sports event:
an office Super Bowl pool

poolnoun (GAME)


[ U ]
a game played by two or more people in which a cue (= long, round stick) is used to hit a white ball against other balls in order to roll them into one of six holes around the edge of a special table:
a pool table
pool
verb[ T ]
us/pul/
to combine your money with money from a number of other people for shared use:
The kids pooled their money to buy their parents plane tickets.

pool | Business English


pool
noun
uk /puːl/us
a quantity of a particular thing or money that is collected and used by different people or organizations:
You can buy shares directly via a stockbroker or invest in a pool of shares run by a professional fund manager.
You can use a car from the car pool for your trip.
WORKPLACE, HR
a number of people who are available to work when needed:
We are creating a pool of workers who are willing and able to fill such positions.
Many companies are considering outsourcing some of their operations in order to tap into a cheaper pool of labour.
INSURANCE
a group of insurance companies that work together to provide insurance for something that a single insurance company cannot provide insurance for alone:
a high-risk insurance pool

See also


blind pool
carpoolnoun
motor pool
pool
verb[ T ]
uk /puːl/us
to share something such as money, information, etc. so that it can be used by several different people or groups:
The countries agreed to pool resources for defence purposes.
They pool money from thousands of different investors and put it into a wide range of companies.
pool experience/knowledge/talents

Examples of pool


pool
Since then, joint ventures, joint stock companies, and foreign enterprises have been brought into pension pools in some cities.
When the study samples were pooled according to river only, the differences became more marked (fig. 2).
Typical large-scale statistical comparisons over time and space have between 2,250 and 4,850 observations, using pooled cross-section time-series datasets.
Instead of having complete connectivity among all pools, the slots are only connected to the header and vice versa.
The evidence indicates however, that planters managed to find alternative sources of capital, such as pooling financial resources.
Effects of venous pooling on renal hemodynamics and water, electrolyte and aldosterone excretion during normal gestation.
All habitats pooled, these two families included together 24% of all species and 28% of genera.
The plasma pools were formed in 1999 and 2000, during a low incidence period.
Males and females were pooled for the discordant twin analyses.
Five spatially-distinct samples from each food bin were pooled for analysis.
In the present study, when infrapopulations were pooled as temporal samples, significant differences in allele frequencies were detected.
Outbreaks of cryptosporidiosis can be prolonged, involve multiple pools and be difficult to control.
Because data were pooled over several years of observation, we specified random-effects models that allow for the non-independence of individual observations across time.
The 10 swabs were tested both individually and as one pooled sample.
The faecal samples from each day and hamster were individually pooled and weighed.
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Collocations withpool


pool

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bathing pool
We miss the bedding of the block in the mountain so strongly described in words, and why are there closed water basins below each open bathing pool?
circular pool
The park includes a circularpool surrounded by yew hedging and topiary shapes.
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deep pool
It is a big and a deeppool and has an old ladder by the weir which works well when the water gets to about 44 degrees.
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