单词 | pour |
释义 | pour (once / 84 pages) v To pour is to flow rapidly in a steady stream, or to cause something to flow. You can pour good coffee into a cup and pour bad coffee down the drain. You can pour your heart out, pour a cup of orange juice into or out of a cup, or watch the rain pour down while a poem pours from your lips. A jet of water may pour from a spout. Listen to how the water pours in this poem from Lewis Carroll's book, Alice in Wonderland: “How doth the little crocodile / Improve his shining tail, / And pour the waters of the Nile, / On every golden scale!” WORD FAMILYpour: poured, pouring, pours USAGE EXAMPLESFor years Ankara looked the other way as hard-line jihadists poured into Syria, destabilizing both sides of the border. Wall Street Journal(Jan 03, 2017) I poured lots of time and money into getting a PhD, in hopes that academia might scratch that itch. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) They chuckled at some customers’ home remedies, such as pouring white wine on a red-wine stain. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1v cause to run pour water over the floor Hypo|Hyper pour forth, shed, spill pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities dribble, drip, droplet or cause to fall in drops transfusepour out of one vessel into another effuse, pour outpour out decant, pour outpour out displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense 2v pour out Syn decant, pour out 3v flow in a spurt Water poured all over the floor Hypo|Hyper gush, spirt, spout, spurt gush forth in a sudden stream or jet regurgitatepour or rush back pumpflow intermittently blowspout moist air from the blowhole whooshgush or squirt out course, feed, flow, run move along, of liquids 4v rain heavily Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside! Syn|Hypo|Hyper pelt, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream sheet come down as if in sheets sluice, sluice downpour as if from a sluice rain, rain down precipitate as rain 5v move in large numbers people were pouring out of the theater Syn|Hypo|Hyper pullulate, stream, swarm, teem pour out, spill out, spill over be disgorged crowd, crowd together to gather together in large numbers 6v supply in large amounts or quantities We poured money into the education of our children Hyper furnish, provide, render, supply give something useful or necessary to |
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