siphons的中文翻译是什么意思

VERB通过虹吸管吸(或输送、抽干)

If you siphon liquid from a container, you make it come out through a tube and down into a lower container by enabling the pressure of the air on it to push it out.

• She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum...

  她把一根塑料管放进嘴里，开始从一个巨大的金属桶里吸气。

• Tell Mac to siphon petrol out of his wagon.

  让马克把他车里的汽油抽出来。

N-COUNT虹吸管

A siphon is a tube that you use for siphoning liquid.

VERB抽取，抽出，挪用(金钱或资源)

If you siphon money or resources from something, you cause them to be used for a purpose for which they were not intended.

• He had siphoned thousands of pounds a week from the failing business...

  他一周之内从这家濒临破产的企业里抽走了数千英镑的资金。

• They siphon foreign aid money into their personal bank accounts.

  他们把国外救济金非法转入了个人银行账户。