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英语单词 percolate
英美音标 英 ['pɜːkəleɪt] 美 ['pɜːrkəleɪt]
中文释义 v.过滤;渗透;浸透
英语例句 (1) I'll percolate some coffee for you.
(2) The rain will percolate through the soil.
(3) The rumour percolated through the firm.
中文例句 (1) 我给你滤煮一些咖啡。
(2) 雨水渗入土中。
(3) 那谣言在公司里慢慢流传开来。
vocabulary简明 When something percolates, it spreads gradually. If the news of your victory in the spelling bee spread slowly through your entire school, you could sit back and enjoy watching it percolate.
vocabulary扩展 When a liquid percolates, it's filtered through something, and when an idea percolates, it's filtered through a group of people. Percolate often refers specifically to coffee, which is brewed by mixing ground coffee beans with hot water and filtering them through paper — in other words, coffee percolates. The Latin root is percolatus, which comes from per, or "through," plus colare, "to strain."
柯林斯解释
1
[VERB 动词](想法、感觉、信息)蔓延,逐渐流传 If an idea, feeling, or piece of information percolates through a group of people or a thing, it spreads slowly through the group or thing.
  [V prep/adv]
  • New fashions took a long time to percolate down.

    新时尚要很长时间才能在大众中流行起来。

  • ...all of these thoughts percolated through my mind.

    所有这些想法在我脑海中扩散

percolation
  • There is no percolation of political ideas from the membership to the leadership.

    政治观念不会从成员那里传到领导层。

2
[V-ERG 及物/不及物动词](用渗滤式咖啡壶滤煮) When you percolate coffee or when coffee percolates, you prepare it in a percolator.
  [V n]
  [Also V]
  • She percolated the coffee and put croissants in the oven to warm.

    她滤煮好咖啡,然后把羊角面包放进烤箱加热。

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[VERB 动词]渗透;渗漏;渗入 To percolate somewhere means to pass slowly through something that has very small holes or gaps in it.
  [V prep/adv]
  • Rain water will only percolate through slowly.

    雨水只会慢慢地渗进来。

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