percolate
vi. 濾; 滲透; (思想等)滲透; 滲入
vt. (用滲濾壺)煮(咖啡); 滲濾
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.
新時尚要很長時間才能在大眾中流行起來。
...all of these thoughts percolated through my mind.
所有這些想法在我腦海中擴散
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.
她濾煮好咖啡,然後把羊角麵包放進烤箱加熱。
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.
雨水只會慢慢地滲進來。
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.
我等咖啡濾煮了幾分鐘.
Unfortunately, his words did not seem to percolate through their bureaucracy with customary efficiency.
可惜, 他的話似乎並沒有透過其素以效率著稱的官僚機構傳達到下面.
Our emotions swim in a soup of hormones and peptides that percolate through our whole body.
我們的情緒在浸透了整個身軀的荷爾蒙和縮氨酸的海洋中遨遊.
Credit becomes readily available, asset prices percolate , and many categories of spending are buoyed.
信貸唾手可得, 資產價格的上漲滲入各個領域, 各種開支也是越漲越高.
Let the coffee percolate for seven minutes.
讓咖啡濾7分鐘.