n.
v.
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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.
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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。
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Tell Mac to siphon petrol out of his wagon.
让马克把他车里的汽油抽出来。
- Siphon off means the same as siphon.siphon off 同 siphon
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Surgeons siphoned off fluid from his left lung...
外科医生抽出了他左肺中的积液。
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The water had to be siphoned off.
得把水抽出来。
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2.
N-COUNT
虹吸管 A siphon is a tube that you use for siphoning liquid.
3.
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.
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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。
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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。
- Siphon off means the same as siphon .siphon off 同 siphon
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He had siphoned off a small fortune in aid money from the United Nations.
他从联合国的救济金中非法挪走了一小笔钱。
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