cesspool
cesspool 英 ['sespu:l] 美 [ˈsɛsˌpul]
n. 污水坑；粪坑；污秽场所
名词复数:cesspools
- Literally, a cesspool is place underground where sewage gathers, but figuratively, you might hear anything that's full of germs or just plain disgusting described as a cesspool. Either way, you'll want to steer clear.
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- n. 污水坑；粪坑；污秽场所
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1. Lily: They said that they can find some information from the cesspool.
他们说他们能从粪池里找出一些信息。
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2. There’s always malarkey lurking, bubbles in the cesspool, fetid bubbles that pop and smell.
大话总是潜伏着无处不在，污水中的气泡，恶臭的气泡破裂臭气满溢。
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3. If a giant had filtered this cesspool, he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair.
一个巨人如果用筛子去滤这些污泥，便可在他的筛中得到几世纪的财富。
- cesspool (n.) also cess-pool, "cistern or well to receive sediment or filth," 1670s, the first element perhaps an alteration of cistern, or perhaps a shortened form of recess [Klein]; or the whole may be an alteration of suspiral (c. 1400), "drainpipe," from Old French sospiral "a vent, air hole," from sospirer "breathe," from Latin suspirare "breathe deep" [Barnhart]. Meaning extended to "tank at the end of the pipe," which would account for a possible folk-etymology change in final syllable.
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