pool

英 [puːl] 美[pul]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词pond contribute lake puddle reservoir

n. 联营；撞球；水塘；共同资金
vi. 联营，合伙经营
vt. 合伙经营
n. (Pool)人名；(英、西)普尔；(芬、德)波尔

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中文词源

pool 水塘，池塘

来自古英语pol,水塘，来自West-Germanic*pol,水塘，来自PIE*bale,沼泽，可能来自PIE*beu,鼓起，膨胀，词源同ball,pock.

pool 普尔，台球，共用的资源

来自法语poule,打赌，下注，原义为母鸡，词源同pullet.来自一种中世纪的斗鸡游戏jeu de la poule,斗鸡之乐，jeu,快乐，词源同joy.非两只鸡打架，而是先把一只母鸡赶得到处乱跑，然后参赛者往这只母鸡身上扔东西，扔中者获胜。用于指打台球游戏，下注赌钱或者输者付钱，后代指台球游戏，并由共同财金引申词义聚拢，共用，公用等，如carpool.

词态变化

复数: pools;第三人称单数: pools;过去式: pooled;过去分词: pooled;现在分词: pooling;

英文词源

pool: pool: Pool of water [OE] and pool ‘collective amount’ [17] are distinct words in English. The former comes from a prehistoric West Germanic *pōl-, source also of German pfuhl and Dutch poel. The latter was borrowed from French poule ‘hen’, a descendant of Latin pullus ‘young chicken’ (source also of English pony, poultry, and pullet).

There was a French game called jeu de la poule, the ‘hen game’, involving throwing things at a hen – which you won as a prize if you hit it. Hence poule came to be used figuratively for ‘target’, and also for ‘that which is at stake in a game’ – source of the original meaning of English pool, ‘stake’. This evolved via ‘stake made up of players’ contributions’ to ‘collective amount’ and ‘collective resource’. Pool the snooker-like game is the same word; the game was originally played for a collective stake.
=> foal, pony, poultry, pullet
pool (n.1): "small body of water," Old English pol "small body of water; deep, still place in a river," from West Germanic *pol- (cognates: Old Frisian and Middle Low German pol, Dutch poel, Old High German pfuol, German Pfuhl). As a short form of swimming pool it is recorded from 1901. Pool party is from 1965.
pool (n.2): game similar to billiards, 1848, originally (1690s) a card game played for collective stakes (a "pool"), from French poule "stakes, booty, plunder," literally "hen," from Old French poille "hen, young fowl" (see foal (n.)).

Perhaps the original notion is from jeu de la poule, supposedly a game in which people threw things at a chicken and the player who hit it, won it, which speaks volumes about life in the Middle Ages. The notion behind the word, then, is "playing for money." The connection of "hen" and "stakes" is also present in Spanish polla and Walloon paie.

Meaning "collective stakes" in betting first recorded 1869; sense of "common reservoir of resources" is from 1917. Meaning "group of persons who share duties or skills" is from 1928. From 1933 as short for football pool in wagering. Pool shark is from 1898. The phrase dirty pool "underhanded or unsportsmanlike conduct," especially in politics (1951), seems to belong here now, but the phrase dirty pool of politics, with an image of pool (n.1) is recorded from 1871 and was in use early 20c.
pool (v.1): "to make a common interest, put things into a pool," 1871, from pool (n.2). Related: Pooled; pooling.
pool (v.2): of liquid, "to form a pool or pools," 1620s, from pool (n.1).

双语例句

1. She was standing by a pool, about to dive in.: 她站在水池旁边，正要往里跳。

2. He drank thirstily from the pool under the rock.: 他饥渴地喝着岩石下水潭中的水。

3. He remembered mowing the lawn, lounging around the swimming pool.: 他还记得修剪草坪、在泳池边闲荡的情景。

4. People are still hanging out drinking beer, maybe shooting some pool.: 人们仍聚在那里喝啤酒，可能还会打会儿台球。

5. She was found lying in a pool of blood.: 她被发现躺在一片血泊中。

英英释意

1. an excavation that is (usually) filled with water

2. a small lake;: "the pond was too small for sailing"

3. an organization of people or resources that can be shared;: "a car pool"; "a secretarial pool"; "when he was first hired he was assigned to the pool"

4. an association of companies for some definite purpose

5. any communal combination of funds;: "everyone contributed to the pool"

6. a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid;: "there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain"; "the body lay in a pool of blood"

7. the combined stakes of the betters

8. something resembling a pool of liquid;: "he stood in a pool of light"; "his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines"

9. any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets

考试真题

owning a timeshare (分时度假房) or participating in a car pool

More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories.

It also adds the element of artistic creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as math people.

In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.

But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

Another type of momentum we have to think about when planning for changes in our energy systems is labor- pool momentum.

A three-month membership costs 150 dollars, and that includes use of the wait-room, sauna and pool.

"Playing pool, playing cards, having dinner, having lunch," all work better "than going though a survey of questions.

In the past few years, Math Counts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math video Challenge.

As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, we'll continue to hit the mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool.

Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon filled the weekend, but the best part- particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold--weather root vegetables--was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasot

When entering the house, the customer would see the pacific ocean through the windows, and then the pool through an open stairway leading to the lower level.

Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

Writing in The New Republic, Alice Lee notes that increasing the number of opportunities for board membership without increasing the pool of qualified women to serve on such boards has led to a "golden skirt" phenomenon, where the same elite women scoop u

实用场景例句

Does the hotel have a pool?: 这家旅馆有没有游泳池？

relaxing by the pool: 在游泳池边休息

freshwater pools: 淡水池塘

a rock pool (= between rocks by the sea): 岩石区潮水潭

The body was lying in a pool of blood.: 尸体倒卧在血泊之中。

a pool of light: 一小片光亮

a pool of cars used by the firm's sales force: 公司销售人员共用的车辆

a pool car: 一辆共用的汽车

a pool of cheap labour: 廉价后备劳力

a pool table: 普尔球台

to shoot (= play) pool: 打普尔

He does the pools every week.: 他每周都去赌足球普尔。

a pools winner: 赌普尔获胜者

The students work individually, then pool their ideas in groups of six.: 学生先分头工作，然后六人一组交流心得。

Police forces across the country are pooling resources in order to solve this crime.: 全国各地警方通力合作以侦破这宗罪案。

...a heated indoor pool...: 室内温水泳池

During winter, many people swim and the pool is crowded.: 冬季来游泳的人很多，泳池人满为患。

The pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds.: 水塘已经干涸，里面都是欧洲蕨和芦苇。

...beautiful gardens filled with pools, fountains and rare birds.: 处处可见水池、喷泉和珍稀鸟类的美丽花园

She was found lying in a pool of blood...: 她被发现躺在一片血泊中。

It was raining quietly and steadily and there were little pools of water on the gravel drive...: 雨一直静静地下着，沙砾车道上积起了一摊摊水。

The available pool of healthy manpower was not as large as military officials had expected...: 可用的健壮人力没有军官预计的那么多。

The new proposal would create a reserve pool of cash.: 这项新的提议将建立一个现金储备基金。

We pooled ideas and information...: 我们集思广益，共享信息。

Philip and I pooled our savings to start up my business.: 我和菲利普把积蓄凑到一起开办了我的公司。

We played pool together and were good mates...: 我们一起打过台球，是好哥们儿。

The Seaman was a bar for pool players and hard drinkers...: “水手”是供台球玩家和酒徒消遣的酒吧。

The odds of winning the pools are about one in 20 million.: 赌球获胜的几率大约是二千万分之一。

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