tank
tank 英 [tæŋk] 美 [tæŋk]
n. 箱，罐，水池；坦克 v. 彻底失败；破产；倒闭
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- A tank is a large container for gases or liquids, like a tank of oil. Another kind of tank is an armored military vehicle with a cannon. If you see that kind of tank driving down the road, run for cover!
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- n. 箱，罐，水池；坦克
- v. 彻底失败；破产；倒闭
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1. a hot water tank
热水箱
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2. a fuel tank
燃料箱
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3. a fish tank
鱼缸
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4. We drove there and back on one tank of petrol.
我们开车去那里来回用了一油箱汽油。
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5. The company's shares tanked on Wall Street.
这家公司的股票在华尔街彻底崩盘了。
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6. She was accused of tanking the match.
有人指责她故意输掉这场比赛。
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7. He tanked up and drove off.
他给汽车加满油开走了。
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8. We stopped to tank the car up.
我们停下来给汽车加油。
- tank (n.) 1610s, "pool or lake for irrigation or drinking water," a word originally brought by the Portuguese from India, from a Hindi source, such as Gujarati tankh "cistern, underground reservoir for water," Marathi tanken, or tanka "reservoir of water, tank." Perhaps ultimately from Sanskrit tadaga-m "pond, lake pool," and reinforced in later sense of "large artificial container for liquid" (1680s) by Portuguese tanque "reservoir," from estancar "hold back a current of water," from Vulgar Latin *stanticare (see stanch). But other sources say the Portuguese word is the source of the Indian ones. Meaning "fuel container" is recorded from 1902. Slang meaning "detention cell" is from 1912. Railroad tank-car is from 1874.
- tank (v.) 1900, "to put into a tank," from tank (n.). Meaning "to lose or fail" attested from 1976 in a general sense, apparently originally in tennis jargon, specifically in an interview with Billie Jean King in "Life" magazine, Sept. 22, 1967:
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