percolate
vi. 滤; 渗透; (思想等)渗透; 渗入
vt. (用渗滤壶)煮(咖啡); 渗滤
If an idea, feeling, or piece of information percolates through a group of people or a thing, it spreads slowly through the group or thing.
New fashions took a long time to percolate down.
新时尚要很长时间才能在大众中流行起来。
...all of these thoughts percolated through my mind.
所有这些想法在我脑海中扩散
When you percolate coffee or when coffee percolates, you prepare it in a percolator.
She percolated the coffee and put croissants in the oven to warm.
她滤煮好咖啡,然后把羊角面包放进烤箱加热。
To percolate somewhere means to pass slowly through something that has very small holes or gaps in it.
Rain water will only percolate through slowly.
雨水只会慢慢地渗进来。
1. the product of percolation
1. permeate or penetrate gradually;
2. spread gradually;
3. prepare in a percolator;
4. cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent
5. pass through;
6. gain or regain energy;
I waited for the coffee to percolate down for a few minutes.
我等咖啡滤煮了几分钟.
Unfortunately, his words did not seem to percolate through their bureaucracy with customary efficiency.
可惜, 他的话似乎并没有通过其素以效率著称的官僚机构传达到下面.
Our emotions swim in a soup of hormones and peptides that percolate through our whole body.
我们的情绪在浸透了整个身躯的荷尔蒙和缩氨酸的海洋中遨游.
Credit becomes readily available, asset prices percolate , and many categories of spending are buoyed.
信贷唾手可得, 资产价格的上涨渗入各个领域, 各种开支也是越涨越高.
Let the coffee percolate for seven minutes.
让咖啡滤7分钟.