siphons的中文翻譯是什麼意思

VERB透過虹吸管吸(或輸送、抽乾)

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...

  她把一根塑膠管放進嘴裡，開始從一個巨大的金屬桶裡吸氣。

• Tell Mac to siphon petrol out of his wagon.

  讓馬克把他車裡的汽油抽出來。

N-COUNT虹吸管

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

VERB抽取，抽出，挪用(金錢或資源)

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...

  他一週之內從這家瀕臨破產的企業裡抽走了數千英鎊的資金。

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

  他們把國外救濟金非法轉入了個人銀行賬戶。