- N-COUNT 泵;抽水机;打气筒
A pump is a machine or device that is used to force a liquid or gas to flow in a particular direction.
- ...pumps that circulate the fuel around in the engine...
使燃料在发动机内循环的泵 - There was no water in the building, just a pump in the courtyard...
楼里没有水,只是在庭院里有个水泵。 - You'll need a bicycle pump to keep the tyres topped up with air.
需要一个打气筒来给自行车轮胎里充足气。
- VERB 抽吸;抽运;泵送
To pump a liquid or gas in a particular direction means to force it to flow in that direction using a pump.
- It's not enough to get rid of raw sewage by pumping it out to sea...
将未经处理的污水排入海中了事是不够的。 - The money raised will be used to dig bore holes to pump water into the dried-up lake.
所筹资金将用于钻孔打水以抽水到干涸的湖中。 - ...drill rigs that are busy pumping natural gas...
不停抽取天然气的架式钻机 - Age diminishes the heart's ability to pump harder and faster under exertion.
随着年龄的增加,人在消耗体力时心脏的输血能力和输血速度会有所减弱。
- N-COUNT (汽油)加油泵
A petrol or gas pump is a machine with a tube attached to it that you use to fill a car with petrol.
- There are already long queues of vehicles at petrol pumps.
加油泵边车辆已经排起了长队。 - ...gas pumps.
汽油加油泵
- VERB 洗(胃)
If someone has their stomach pumped, doctors remove the contents of their stomach, for example because they have swallowed poison or drugs.
- She was released from hospital yesterday after having her stomach pumped.
洗胃之后,她昨天出了院。
- VERB 大量投入;大量注入
If you pump money or other resources into something such as a project or an industry, you invest a lot of money or resources in it.
- The Government needs to pump more money into community care.
政府需要将更多资金投入到社区护理这一块。
- VERB 不停地追问
If you pump someone about something, you keep asking them questions in order to get information.
- He ran in every five minutes to pump me about the case...
他每隔五分钟就跑来追问我这件事。 - He must have pumped Janey for details...
他肯定追问过珍妮详细的情况。 - Stop trying to pump information out of me.
别再追问我消息了。
- VERB 接连发射;快速连射
To pump bullets into someone means to fire a lot of bullets into them very quickly.
- A gunman burst in and pumped five bullets into her head.
一个持枪歹徒闯进来,朝她的脑袋连射5枪。
- (运动或休闲时穿的)橡胶底帆布鞋
Pumps are canvas shoes with flat rubber soles which people wear for sports and leisure.
in AM, use 美国英语用 trainers
- (通常皮制的)女式浅口鞋
Pumps are women's shoes that do not cover the top part of the foot and are usually made of plain leather.
in BRIT, use 英国英语用 court shoes
- PHRASE 刺激(经济等的)发展
To prime the pump means to do something to encourage the success or growth of something, especially the economy.
- ...the use of tax money to prime the pump of the state's economy.
用税收收入来刺激该国经济发展
- to pump iron → see: iron