英语词汇“to prime the pump”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. transitive. To prepare a pump for use by pouring water into it. Also figurative, esp. in to prime the pump: to stimulate or support (esp. economic) growth or success by supplying initial investment, encouragement, etc. Cf. fang v.² 2, pump-priming n.

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1806 Brit. Patent in Repertory of Arts (1807) Feb. 167 In order to prime the said pump in case there is more than one set of pistons applied.

1819 W. Scott Let. 18 Jan. (1933) V. 295 Thus ended her attempt, notwithstanding her having primed the pump with a good dose of flattery.

1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) To prime a pump, to pour water down the tube with the view of saturating the sucker, so causing it to swell, and act effectually in bringing up water.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Prime, to pour water into a pump bucket to make it lift. When a pump bucket becomes dry and leaky and fails to induce suction, it is said to have lost its primin.

1916 Everybody's Mag. 35 131 When the waters of business are stagnant, gentlemen, it becomes necessary, if I may say so, to prime the pump.

1930 Engineering 11 Apr. 473/1 Special arrangements for priming the pumps are not required, as the latter themselves exhaust all the air automatically during the first few revolutions.

1963 Times 8 Nov. 1/7 (advt.) This is just one of the ways in which Farmers Weekly tries to prime the pump of progress in agriculture.

1973 L. Russell Everyday Life Colonial Canada v. 64 The..shaft had a piston with a leather diaphragm, which had to be wetted (‘primed’) by pouring a little water into the pump.

1977 T. Sharpe Great Pursuit xiii. 124 Significance is all... Prime the pump with meaningful hogwash.

1992 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 8 Nov. c2/1 In the short term, that money should be used to prime the pump—create jobs immediately and lessen the duration and severity of the recession.

单词	to prime the pump
释义	> as lemmas to prime the pump a. transitive. To prepare a pump for use by pouring water into it. Also figurative, esp. in to prime the pump: to stimulate or support (esp. economic) growth or success by supplying initial investment, encouragement, etc. Cf. fang v.² 2, pump-priming n. ΚΠ 1806 Brit. Patent in Repertory of Arts (1807) Feb. 167 In order to prime the said pump in case there is more than one set of pistons applied. 1819 W. Scott Let. 18 Jan. (1933) V. 295 Thus ended her attempt, notwithstanding her having primed the pump with a good dose of flattery. 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) To prime a pump, to pour water down the tube with the view of saturating the sucker, so causing it to swell, and act effectually in bringing up water. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Prime, to pour water into a pump bucket to make it lift. When a pump bucket becomes dry and leaky and fails to induce suction, it is said to have lost its primin. 1916 Everybody's Mag. 35 131 When the waters of business are stagnant, gentlemen, it becomes necessary, if I may say so, to prime the pump. 1930 Engineering 11 Apr. 473/1 Special arrangements for priming the pumps are not required, as the latter themselves exhaust all the air automatically during the first few revolutions. 1963 Times 8 Nov. 1/7 (advt.) This is just one of the ways in which Farmers Weekly tries to prime the pump of progress in agriculture. 1973 L. Russell Everyday Life Colonial Canada v. 64 The..shaft had a piston with a leather diaphragm, which had to be wetted (‘primed’) by pouring a little water into the pump. 1977 T. Sharpe Great Pursuit xiii. 124 Significance is all... Prime the pump with meaningful hogwash. 1992 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 8 Nov. c2/1 In the short term, that money should be used to prime the pump—create jobs immediately and lessen the duration and severity of the recession. extracted from primev.² < as lemmas
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