pool是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 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。

  • a pool of blood/oil 一滩血／油

  • figurative a pool of light 一小片光亮

  • 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。

• 1 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。

• 2 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）

  • 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？

  • They do the pools every week. 他们每个星期都赌球。

• 3 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 US informal Do you want to shoot (= play) some pool? 你想打台球吗？

• 4 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。