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单词 pour
释义 pour
I. \ˈpō(ə)r, ˈpȯ(ə)r, -ōə, -ȯ(ə) sometimes ˈpu̇(ə)r or -u̇ə\ verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English pouren
transitive verb
1.
 a.
  (1) : to cause or allow to flow : emit in a steady stream : diffuse, discharge
   < poured out torrents of water — J.G.Vaeth >
   < pour grain into an elevator >
   < ranges … pour rivers down to the coast — M.B.Eldershaw >
   < summer pours warm sunlight … into the valleys — American Guide Series: Virginia >
  (2) : to dispense from a container
   < pour a drink >
   < pour tea >
 b. : to supply copiously : convey as if through a sluice : channel, spout
  < pour men and money into the Netherlands — Stringfellow Barr >
  < pour out a torrent of words >
  < poured ridicule on the elaborate … analysis — Richard Hartshorne b. 1899 >
  < armies … that the Germans poured across Europe — Tom Wintringham >
  < sweet-tempered … pastors poured forth comfort and learning — Sinclair Lewis >
  < trying to pour sympathy all over the poor man — D.B.Chidsey >
 specifically : to send in a concentrated volley
  < poured 30 bullets into his plane — Ed Cunningham >
 c. : to produce in abundance — used with forth or out
  < travel-books … that our presses pour forth in floods — Louise Pound >
  < keep pouring out millions of cars, trucks and buses every year — Motor Transportation in the West >
 d. : to apply in liberal amounts (as for coercion or to supply motive power)
  < poured the whip into the mules — Andy Adams >
  < poured on the steam >
  < began to pour heat on the business office — Human Organization >
  < poured in every ounce of power but couldn't make it >
2.
 a. : to expend wholly
  < those who most long for peace now pour their lives on war — Muriel Rukeyser >
 b. : to give full expression to or a detailed account of : spill, vent
  < before our Father's throne, we pour our ardent prayers — John Fawcett >
  < thrasher from cactus and mesquite pours forth his song — D.C.Peattie >
  < pours out her troubles to them — Bosley Crowther >
  < pouring out his feelings in his poetry — Ruth R. Chapman >
3.
 a. : to cause to flow or to pass as if flowing into a mold
  < pour steel >
  < pour agar >
  < pour concrete >
  < nine sergeants were poured into plain clothes and set up in an office at Old Scotland Yard — J.D.Carr >
  < poured the barefooted doctor into the coach, gave him a quart of whiskey to work on, and pulled out — F.B.Gipson >
 b. : to form by running plastic mixes of concrete into place in forms
  < pour a foundation wall >
intransitive verb
1.
 a.
  (1) : to move with a continuous flow : issue or glide incessantly : gush, run
   < creeks pouring down from the uplands — Nan McDonald >
   < wind pours over the mountains — C.P.Aiken >
   < smoke … poured up from the blazing houses — Kenneth Roberts >
   < line pours off your reel — C.C.Van Fleet >
  (2) : to rain heavily : teem
   < it was raining — but not pouring — Robbie Barcroft >
 b. : to progress or be channeled continuously : move in a body : stream, swarm
  < Marines poured ashore and secured the beachhead — H.L.Merillat >
  < the promenading public still slowly poured up and down Fifth Avenue — Edith Wharton >
  < all this lore poured into a big filing cabinet — H.W.Thompson >
  < traffic poured over the new highway — G.R.Stewart >
  < our own stuff was pouring back on them — Fred Majdalany >
  < from your farms today food pours … to every corner of the country — A.E.Stevenson †1965 >
 c. : to emanate in a flood
  < a spate of English grammars began to pour off the presses — N.C.Stageberg >
  < personality pours out of him — Victor Thompson >
  < calypsos pouring out of … jukeboxes — Paul Hofmann >
 d. : to preside at a tea table
  < she was asked to pour at a little reception for the performers after the concert >
2. : to find an outlet : be given full expression
 < channels … through which those emotions might pour — Oscar Handlin >
Synonyms:
 pour, stream, gush, and sluice can mean, in common, to send forth liquid, or something suggesting liquid, copiously. pour stresses the abundance of the issuing or sending forth, usually implying emission in a continuous stream
  < the torrential rain poured down for days >
  < to pour tributes on his head >
  < mail poured in in answer to the advertisement >
  < the crowd poured out of the front doors >
  stream suggests a flow limited by issuance through a channel or from an opening
  < tears streamed from her eyes >
  < light streamed through the window >
  < the rain streamed down the bank in small rivulets >
  gush stresses a suddenness and copiousness of the pouring forth as of something released from a close confinement
  < blood gushed from the wound >
  < the spring gushed forth >
  < words gushed from her in gratitude >
  sluice in this comparison always implies a confining flume or a channeled abundance of liquid
  < the rain fell with a frightening violence, … turning the opposite wall of the canyon into a sluicing cascade of muddy water — B.A.Williams >
  < the Connecticut, sluicing down between the Green and White mountains — R.W.Howard >
  < thrust her hands into the stream, then raised them, dripping, to sluice her face — Rebecca West >

- pour it on
II. noun
(-s)
1. : the action of pouring : flood, stream
 < seals … carved sheer as cameos in the moon's full pour — E.W.Barker >
 < a great pour of contemptuous invective — Times Literary Supplement >
especially : a heavy fall of rain
2.
 a. : the action of running a plastic material into a mold or form
  < carpenters were stripping and placing forms for the next pourNew Era in Concrete >
 b. : the amount placed in a mold or form at one time
  < some mechanics use two pours of lead to fill the joint completely — Building, Estimating & Contracting >
3.
 a. : the principal opening by which molten metal enters a mold
 b. : the superfluous metal adhering to the casting and resulting from the head metal in such an opening — called also pourpiece
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