pool
pool 英 [pu:l] 美 [pul]
n. 水塘，池塘 v. 集中资源
进行时:pooling 过去式:pooled 过去分词:pooled 第三人称单数:pools 名词复数:pools
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- n. 水塘，池塘
- v. 集中资源
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1. Does the hotel have a pool?
这家旅馆有没有游泳池？
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2. relaxing by the pool
在游泳池边休息
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3. freshwater pools
淡水池塘
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4. The body was lying in a pool of blood.
尸体倒卧在血泊之中。
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5. a pool of light
一小片亮光
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6. a pool of cars used by the firm's sales force
公司销售人员共用的车辆
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7. The students work individually, then pool their ideas in groups of six.
学生先分头工作，然后六人一组交流意见。
- pool (n.1) "small body of water," Old English pol "small body of water; deep, still place in a river," from West Germanic *pol- (source also of 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," from Vulgar Latin *pulla, fem. of Latin pullus "young animal," especially "young fowl," from PIE root *pau- (1) "few, little."
- 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).
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