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Seep Oil Liquid Blood Water Word Flows Unwanted

英语单词 seep
英美音标 英 [siːp] 美 [siːp]
中文释义 v.渗出;渗漏
n.渗漏;小泉;水坑
英语例句 (1) Blood was beginning to seep through the bandages.
(2) Oil is seeping out through a crack in the tank.
(3) The teacher stopped speaking to allow time for the meaning of his words to seep through.
中文例句 (1) 血开始从绷带上渗出来。
(2) 油箱的裂缝漏出油来了。
(3) 那位老师停止讲话,以便留出时间(让学生们)理解他所讲的意思。
vocabulary简明 Seep means to leak slowly. When you see the word, imagine water coming in through your sneakers on a rainy day. It's not a lot of water, but your feet still get pretty wet.
vocabulary扩展 The word seep is related to the Dutch word for ooze. Oil seeps from the earth and blood seeps from a wound. Seep falls somewhere between gush and drip on a scale of how liquid flows and suggests a liquid that is thick, and unwanted. In the figurative sense, some things that seep, like bad thoughts that seep into your mind, are also unwanted. But sometimes you wish that the flow would increase like when financial aid only seeps into a disaster zone.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]渗透;渗漏 If something such as liquid or gas seeps somewhere, it flows slowly and in small amounts into a place where it should not go.
  [V prep/adv]
  • Radioactive water had seeped into underground reservoirs...

    放射性水已经渗入地下蓄水层中。

  • The gas is seeping out of the rocks...

    气体正从岩石中渗出。

  • Engineers said that plutonium could begin seeping from the corroded sub.

    工程师说钚可能会开始从遭腐蚀的潜艇往外渗透。

  • Seep is also a noun.
    • ...an oil seep.

      石油泄漏

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[VERB 动词](秘密)逐渐外泄;(不快的情感)逐渐释放 If something such as secret information or an unpleasant emotion seeps somewhere, it comes out gradually.
  [V prep/adv]
  • ...the tide of racism which is sweeping Europe seeps into Britain.

    正席卷欧洲的种族主义浪潮逐渐渗透到英国。

  • ...letting information seep out of the Treasury.

    使消息从财政部逐渐传开

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