英语单词 | percolate |
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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]
percolation
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]
3 [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]
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