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noun pʌmppəmp 1A mechanical device using suction or pressure to raise or move liquids, compress gases, or force air into inflatable objects such as tyres. 泵 汽油泵。 Example sentencesExamples - Potential examples include switches in optical communication devices and pumps that move solutions though minuscule channels for mixing and analysis.
- This pump is operated by aligning the rear cycle wheel with the mechanical pump wherein a rotor is provided for revolving the cycle wheel.
- If the energy is transferred to the fluid, thereby increasing its pressure, the devices are called pumps, fans, or compressors.
- One of these devices is the insulin pump, a mechanical device that can be programmed to deliver insulin more like the pancreas does.
- The naturally occurring well is renowned for the purity of its water, which is drawn with the aid of a mechanical pump.
- Once the vehicle is started the electric pump will level it and the mechanical pump will take over once the vehicle is moving.
- Dual hydraulic pumps evenly raise and lower the platform at a rate of 8 feet per minute.
- The device is a mechanical pump that can take over the function of either the left or right chamber in the heart.
- For the other hydraulically operated functions, the pressure is generated by a mechanical pump.
- The drug is usually administered daily via a mechanical pump that pumps the drug underneath the skin while the child is sleeping.
- The equipment is pushed to the limits of its hydraulic pistons and pumps as it moves heavy materials out of trenches into dump beds or across grades.
- Functioning basically like a pump, it compresses the refrigerant and provides pressure to force it around the rest of the cooling system.
- Over 100 stations were forced to close after activists cut power to the petrol pumps and tied petrol pump nozzles together.
- Because they are mechanical systems, pumps with electrical connections should be checked at least once a year.
- Mechanical pumps can produce vacuums to the medium pressure level.
- But crews armed with high pressure pumps move in today to remove the pigeons' deposits.
- Antiembolism stockings and pneumatic compression device pumps are placed on the patient's lower extremities and are used when the patient is in the hospital.
- Since they are powered entirely by hydraulic pumps, there is no mechanical transmission.
- Manufacturers are boosting hydraulic flows by adding pumps and increasing pressures.
- In such an event the person concerned can be kept alive only by continuous artificial respiration by a mechanical pump.
- 1.1in singular An instance of moving something by or as if by a pump.
泵送；抽吸，抽运 the pump of blood to her heart 泵进她心脏的血液。 Example sentencesExamples - This may be followed by another set of 10 reps for a final pump of nourishing blood.
- His pulse was weak and feverish, more like a shiver than the pump of his life's blood.
- My chest and triceps were toast and the pump of blood into the muscles was immense to say the least.
2Physiology
with modifier An active transport mechanism in living cells by which specific ions are moved through the cell membrane against a concentration gradient. 〔生理〕泵（指特定离子逆浓度梯度进行的跨膜主动运输机制） the bacterium's sodium pump 细菌钠泵。 Example sentencesExamples - Mechanisms of failure of calf muscle pump and venous hypertenion.
- The later hyperpolarization results from stimulation of the plasma membrane proton pump due to the cytosolic acidification associated with the activity of the nitrate transporter.
- All cells have sodium pumps in their membranes; these consume energy by hydrolysing adenosine triphosphate.
- In sufficient quantities, it can cause permanent damage to the cells' noradrenaline reuptake pump.
- In certain disease states, the capacity of membrane pumps to maintain normal concentration gradients may be compromised.
3US A pump-action shotgun. 〈美〉压动式猎枪 the shotgun was a 12-gauge pump
verb pʌmppəmp [with object]1with adverbial of direction Force (liquid, gas, etc.) to move by or as if by means of a pump. （用泵或似用泵）抽运，抽吸（液体、气体等） the blood is pumped around the body 血液被输送到全身。 Example sentencesExamples - I hope people reading the book might think twice about the circumstances of the man who pumps their gas or the cashier who rings up their groceries.
- As anyone who has pumped gas knows, the higher the octane of fuel the higher the price.
- He was pumping gas through the vent into my room.
- We were trying to pump enough water away for people just to get out of their houses.
- He came out to the car and visited through the window while he pumped my gas.
- This is done of course to protect the life of the president; apparently the lives of ordinary Americans pumping gas or loading their groceries do not warrant the same protection.
- He used the steam engine to pump water out of mines.
- He was pumping gas at a Sunoco station in Manassas, Virginia.
- The gas is pumped in at high-pressure, so it pushes down on the liquid product with a good amount of force.
- I remember when you casually mentioned to the attendant who pumped your gas that you were moving downtown, and he started to cry.
- Where no cut-off switches in the boreholes exist, this results in a combination of air and water being pumped to the reservoirs.
- Last month an elderly Mayo couple were left homeless when fire fighters were forced to pump water from a nearby river after their house caught fire in the middle of the night.
- If we were to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the air, the earth would not recognize that it is able to dictate policy.
- I hate pumping my own gas and I hate checking the oil and water.
- Already there are ads on small screens that jabber at you while you pump your gas, while you use your ATM machine and while you wait in the supermarket line.
- He actually had a job pumping gas (with a pay rate that didn't nearly cover the cost of the average bachelor apartment) so he was staying at the homeless shelter.
- In operation, water is pumped from the engine to the top tank, where it spreads over the tops of the tubes.
- The jailed men want Shell to build the gas refinery offshore because they fear that pumping unrefined gas past their homes will lead to a health and safety risk.
- The Coalbrookdale Company had smelted its last iron in the area by 1821, and that year had dismantled the Resolution steam engine that pumped water up the dale to power the furnace bellows.
- In the end, the fire brigade were forced to pump water from a nearby river.
Synonyms force, drive, push, send, transport, raise, inject suck, draw, tap, milk, siphon, withdraw, expel, extract, bleed, drain - 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move in spurts as though driven by a pump.
（泵抽似的）喷出 blood was pumping from a wound in his shoulder 血正从他肩部的伤口喷出来。 Example sentencesExamples - When Harry's turned on, his adrenaline flows and the endorphins pump, and he feels alive instead of dead.
- The adrenaline rush took her on it's own course and she could feel the blood pumping in her ears.
- This is because your body has adjusted to the constant stream of alcohol pumping through your system.
- My heart rate increases, my blood pumps faster and the adrenaline begins to surge.
- I struggled then, adrenaline suddenly pumping through my already rushing blood.
- Nice little rush to get the blood pumping and get everybody in the proper mindset of combat.
- But when the adrenaline is pumping to your brain, the hot, sticky blood coursing through your veins, who could resist?
- Blood pumped out of her wounds and sluggishly oozed down her body.
- Becca and I began to climb down, our veins pumping with the adrenaline rush of not only conquering the rigging, but in a storm, to help someone, and the captain at that.
- The scene is still vivid in my memory - I was mesmerised, I could feel my heart pumping and the adrenalin flow.
- He ran a hand through his hair, the rush of adrenalin still pumping though him, then he sighed.
- The rush of adrenalin pumped through her veins, and Ashlyn raced toward Winnie and Rey's room.
- With her adrenaline pumping, Mac rushed with all her energy and capability towards the elevator doors.
- The adrenaline was circulating, surging and pumping in the heat of the moment.
- The reduced venous pressure reduces the return flow of blood into the heart, so the blood pumped out of the heart is correspondingly reduced.
- Shock reigned for a few seconds, then heat surged, pumped through veins, and I responded.
- Adrenaline pumped through her blood as a dizzying rush of vertigo overcame her from looking down upon the streets far below.
- There's nothing like 'em for getting the blood pumping and feeling that surge of collective energy.
- His nerves were jumping out his system, the adrenaline pumping and flowing like mad.
- He looked terrible, armour torn and mangled while blood pumped from numerous wounds around his body.
Synonyms spurt, spout, squirt, jet, surge, spew, gush, stream, flow, flood, pour, spill, rush, well, cascade, run, course, discharge British informal sloosh rare disembogue
2 Draw (milk) from the breast using a breast pump, typically in order to feed a baby by means of a bottle. she struggled with pumping enough milk no object I've exclusively pumped for my youngest 3Fill (something such as a tyre or balloon) with liquid or gas using a pump. I fetched the bike and pumped up the back tyre my veins had been pumped full of glucose 我的静脉内已注满了葡萄糖。 Example sentencesExamples - The millisecond he stood up, he would be pumped full of steel.
- Gemma had been pumped full of drugs all this time, so she needed time for her body to get back to normal.
- The pair arrived at the doctor's surgery and within minutes Kirsty was in an ambulance on the way to Christchurch hospital, where she was pumped full of antibiotics.
- He was still pumped full of rage but he also shocked and confused.
- At times, when I was lying on my hospital bed being pumped full of chemotherapy drugs that made me as sick as a dog and caused my hair to fall out, I used to close my eyes and dream I was somewhere else.
- Nevertheless, he spent the holiday period, in agony, pumped full of painkillers, playing to over 6,000 people.
- Even for a devoted carnivore, you'd like to eat meat that's not been pumped full of antibiotics, steroids, and hormones.
- The idea that farmed salmon are pumped full of chemicals is an urban myth.
- Most farmed animals are now crowded in sheds with dirty conditions and pumped full of drugs so they lead sad and unnatural lives.
- I went home so pumped full of steroids that I literally went without sleep for nearly three weeks.
- America is hungry… for food that is not drenched in pesticides, pumped full of antibiotics and covered with sealing wax.
- Soon I was on the table with an IV in my arm, pumped full of powerful narcotics, and ready to be probed by the ship manned by the hospital staff.
- Surely they deserve more than to be pumped full of drugs, just to ensure that our overstretched military forces can continue to support the whims of politicians.
- Enough generations of children have already been pumped full of these types of prejudices.
- He seemed puffy, like he'd been pumped full of embalming fluid.
- Glen says mass-farmed animals are pumped full of antibiotics to ward off potential diseases they may spread, due to their living in such close proximity to one another.
- I was pumped full of steroids intravenously and was in hospital for over two weeks.
- ‘Standard’ bacon is pumped full of salt water during the curing process.
- Hopefully it was only because of the drugs I had been pumped full of.
- I couldn't see to read it, I wouldn't have understood it anyway, I was pumped full of morphine. I just held on to it for dear life.
Synonyms inflate, blow up swell, aerate, fill up, enlarge, distend, expand, dilate, bloat, puff up rare tumefy - 3.1informal Shoot (bullets) into (a target)
将（子弹）射向目标 he pumped two shots into the van's front tyre Example sentencesExamples - Handguns can pump bullets quickly and accurately, and rifles are likewise lighter, easier to use, and faster to reload.
- I watched as Alexandria pumped three bullets into Rafael's chest, and I saw him go down.
- Having cornered him and pinned him to the ground they pumped five bullets into his head at close range.
- As he rounded a corner, seven gunmen opened fire, pumping the car and driver full of bullet holes.
- And in 1995, he petrified holidaymakers by pumping a volley of bullets into the air outside a disco in the Caribbean resort of Cartagena.
- 3.2as adjective pumped" or "pumped upinformal Very enthusiastic or excited.
the team came out really pumped up Example sentencesExamples - I jumped at the chance, and now I am really pumped about it.
- His pupils seem dilated, as if he's so pumped about his mission that he's fully transcending the here and now.
- On the plane, he told reporters he is pumped, he feels very good.
- Pumped with excitement, Fred's hands began to shake.
- The beginnings of a popular song started and everyone got even more pumped up.
4Move vigorously up and down. 用力上下晃动 with object we had to pump the handle like mad 我们只好拼命地晃动把手。 no object that's superb running—look at his legs pumping 他跑得真棒——看他两条腿翻飞的样子！ Example sentencesExamples - In the faint light we rose and sang hymns, accompanied by the organist sitting comfortably on the floor and using his right leg to pump the harmonium.
- His rough left hand turned the handle on the pitch black pot while his right hand pumped a small bellows to encourage the fire.
- Then they pumped a handle on the press that squeezed the water out of the cylinder and formed tightly-packed disks.
- Ju had his left hand on the dome, hair standing on end as Ernie pumped the handle like fury.
- He pumped the handles of slot machines and bet feverishly on the roulette wheel.
- 4.1 Apply and release (a brake pedal or lever) several times in quick succession, typically to prevent skidding.
（尤指为了防止打滑而）点踏（刹车板），点拉（操纵杆） the school teaches its students to brake by pumping the pedal Example sentencesExamples - I find that it helps to pump the rear brake lightly and quickly.
- Details are still emerging, but it looks like he tried to pump his brake pedal, but instead found his accelerator pedal.
- Mr. Wehrman was pumping the gas pedal, an irritated expression on his face, holding the key in the ignition.
- Only some feral instinct keeps you pumping the brake pedal and steering into the skid, so that you slide instead of spin.
- Emlyn held the white bowl carefully with one hand, and, using all the strength in her other, pumped the lever until water began to stream out of the hole to her right.
5informal Try to elicit information from (someone) by persistent questioning. 〈非正式〉追问，探问，盘问（某人） she began to pump her friend for details 她开始追问好友，打听详细情况。 Example sentencesExamples - What she saw was a very clever ploy to pump her for information.
- Having never had the pleasure of eating out at Est Est Est, I pumped my good friend Alison from Edinburgh for information.
- Connie tried pumping her for information on what Hardwick wanted, but she evaded the questions so skillfully that Connie realized she was in a different league.
- They asked Scott's friends to make certain calls to him and pump him for information, basically.
- Or was it because Alan had been lying, and he was trying to pump her for information about it?
- Anyway, our tutor, who believes we are all on the simple side, favours questions with easy and obvious answers and was pumping us for information on Louis XVI.
- He'd rather play something else but if that's what it took to pump Adam for information he'd do it.
- They'll pump him, try to get as much information out of him as possible.
- Then James wouldn't think she was pumping him for information.
- Suffice it to say that after more than an hour of pumping the poor guy like a mostly-empty keg, by the time dessert was served, I had names.
- Elise was playing dumb, pumping her father for information.
- So why did he get the impression she was pumping him for information?
- She'd been pumping me for information about Brad all week.
- We have pumped him for all the information he has.
- The authorities didn't know at this stage of his movements overseas but they were keen to pump him for information on the prayer room, which was now under close surveillance.
- My own father was pumping me dry for information!
- Charges hadn't even been filed, yet there I was stalking her street, putting on a concerned, serious face as I pumped her neighbors for tips.
- After they had pumped me dry of information, the CIC people let me go.
- He was standing in the driveway talking to Chris and looking at his car, probably pumping him for information about where they were going and what they were doing.
- They might try to pump him for information vital to the war effort, and that was never good.
Synonyms ask, question (persistently/intensely), quiz, interrogate, probe, put questions to, sound out, cross-examine, catechize informal grill, put the screws on, give someone the third degree, put someone through the third degree, put someone through the wringer/mangle, worm something out of someone
PhrasesShake a person's hand vigorously. 用力地摇动…的手 he greeted us with delight, pumping our hands and laughing Example sentencesExamples - ‘You keep that camera out and we're gonna have some fun boy!’ he greeted us like old friends, pumping my hand with startling vigour for an octogenarian invalid.
- Trying desperately to make her way toward Gil, she found herself surrounded by well-wishers who touched her, congratulated her, thanked her, and pumped her hand until she thought her arm would fall off.
- ‘Ellie Johansen,’ I managed to say, as he pumped my hand professionally.
- He pumped my hand vigorously, his devilish eyes radiating excitement.
- An enthusiastic supporter pumped his hand and spewed out some of his own conclusions.
- The boy answered as he pumped his hand energetically.
- The Marine kept pumping his hand, saying, ‘You're lucky to have that one - she can take care of herself!’
- He pumped my hand vigorously and could barely stammer out his name.
- The man beams, then reaches out and pumps my hand enthusiastically.
- He was a little weightlifter looking guy who pumped my hand like he was milking it.
informal Exercise with weights. 〈非正式〉用哑铃锻炼 she spent her time jogging and pumping iron Example sentencesExamples - While he pumps iron to improve his physique, Woods is a renowned couch potato, who likes nothing better than to lounge about with the remote control at his fingertips.
- Living in the city now, he goes to a gymnasium and pumps iron every morning.
- Keith began pumping iron in high school and has continued to hit the weights even at his current heights of success.
- But it wasn't just the young and happening who gave up breakfast for pumping iron followed by a decaf, unsweetened cup of coffee with a dash of soya milk, the health wave affected everyone from teenagers to people in their sixties.
- I changed positions, and they had me in the weight room every day, pumping iron and drinking this nutrient to gain weight.
- I do regular workouts including cardiovascular exercise and pumping iron.
- For today's media-literate, sophisticated children, pumping iron on a futuristic bench press is clearly more appealing than crouching in a draughty hall pretending to be a little acorn.
- She's sweated it out in a gym stuffed with infomercial gizmos while traveling in Morocco, pumped iron on homemade weight training equipment in Zimbabwe and run up and down more than her fair share of crumbling motel basement stairways.
- I don't believe in lifting weights, or pumping iron.
- Interestingly, fitness exercise this time was not confined to pumping iron inside the gym.
Under pressure to do something. they kept their composure well when we were under the pump Example sentencesExamples - The controversial major sporting event again finds itself under the pump.
- We certainly put them under the pump and in the end we just weren't quite up to it.
- To date they haven't shown any of that when they've been under the pump, and I think that's the time for a true team to really lift and turn things around.
- There are plenty of other senior executives inside the bank who should be under the pump.
- The most fundamental basic of the game at the highest level is that instinctive ability to make the right choice when you are under the pump.
- I was under the pump a little bit to get myself ready in the last couple of weeks with some back tightness.
- He will also undoubtedly have the support of a coach by his side who himself is under the pump.
- Any local sport that isn't offering the kind of pizzazz or whiz bang marketing that is creating fresh and dynamic new sporting heroes is under the pump.
- We'd been under the pump for so long we forget how to enjoy the game.
- By any count the brothers are under the pump as current difficulties are used to rationalize again.
Phrasal VerbsInvest a large sum of money in (something) 〈非正式〉在…上投入大量资金 he pumped all his savings into building the boat 他把所有积蓄都用来造这艘小船了。 Example sentencesExamples - The site was owned by Waterford City Council, which will pump the money back into urban renewal programmes in the city, making it an even more attractive investment location.
- Probably three times as much money was pumped into the venture industry than should have been.
- The only problem with this scenario is that unless someone pumps some money into the company soon, it will simply run out of cash and have to cease trading.
- US corporations are not pumping their money into hiring full-time employees who earn a livable wage, receive health care benefits and get defined retirement pensions.
- There should be no excuse for failure because colossal sums of money and other resources have been pumped into the Authority.
- Such an upbeat prediction will be warmly welcomed by home owners across Scotland as many have shied away from investing in the stock market and opted instead to pump their savings into property.
- Several foreign fund managers said they were taking profits in Singapore and pumping the money into markets that had been lagging behind, such as Malaysia.
- The Government is setting totally unrealistic targets and not pumping the money in.
- One day, a lobbyist will get enough money and pump enough money into somebody's campaign, and that will be that.
- As more and more parents put their kids in private school or homeschool them, the government will have an even bigger excuse to pump less money into the beleaguered public school system.
- Addressing a meeting of the Coalfield Communities Campaign at the Labour conference, Mr Wilson defended his decision to pump enough money into the struggling pit in order to help to find a new owner.
- However much money is pumped into building stadiums, employing professional administrators and coaches, the collapses will continue unless domestic tournaments are properly organized and games played on the best pitches.
- Bradford Council will not pump any money into Bradford City Football
- It's envisaged the additional money will be pumped into better health and education programmes, with special priority for the HIV aids crisis in Africa.
- I'm guessing it means someone's going to pump a little money into the operation, maybe putting out a few more issues, trying to promote a brand-name that can be exploited for movies or videogames or other venues.
- But the figures were immediately seized upon by critics of the service as unexceptional given how much money has been pumped into the venture.
- The bulk of the money will be pumped into restoring the village's Glebe garden, but cash will also be dished out to pay for hanging baskets and other floral projects.
- I asked Chief Bernard, because I'd heard some residents express concern about how much money had been pumped into the Centre.
- The Kennedy never has completely recovered, although, unlike The Boat, its owner eventually did pump some money into it.
- The road network cannot cope with increasing traffic, no matter how much money is pumped in.
Produce or emit something in large quantities or amounts. 大量产出；大量排放 carnival bands pumping out music 大量演奏音乐的狂欢节乐队。 Example sentencesExamples - Other potters move on to vases, abstract sculptures, maybe even attempt a bust, but Ron just stays the course pumping out ashtray after ashtray.
- That's why no matter how many love-against-all-odds-under-Nazi-occupation epics are pumped out in time for Oscar consideration, we eat 'em up, especially when they are as beautifully photographed and paced as Zelary.
- People like to hear stuff that sounds familiar to them and the North American music industry loves to keep pumping it out.
- ‘Pollutants were pumped out by the dark satanic mills and we had a century and a half of that,’ he said.
- The manufacturer, Roche, is pumping it out at full pelt, but global demand has gone berserk.
- But a great deal of the fleeing capital was earned then and there: Exports were pumped out at a much higher rate than imports were purchased.
- And the studios really want to seize on that momentum and pump those DVDs out as fast as they can when they're still in the forefront of people's minds.
- And I kind of - after a while, I mean, I did 14 movies in six years, which is more than two a year, and just kind of pumping them out.
- I haven't heard any of their post-major label work, but it appears they were pumping it out in spades until recently.
- A generation ago, cheap daytime soaps were pumped out to fill the gaps between ads for domestic cleaning products and provide some moving wallpaper for tranquillised housewives.
Turn up the volume of music. 〈非正式〉把音乐的音量调大 Example sentencesExamples - Seems that the music is pumped up so loudly in the mix than it drowns out everything, and since this is a movie where people speak way too softly, lots of dialogue and double crossing plot machinations are missed.
- He never even steps into the mela but instead parks his motor at the entrance and pumps the music up loud.
- Got home, put the disk in the real stereo, pumped it up as high as it would go, and I listened to the last movement four times in a row, just to wait for the moment when That Melody rolled out.
- Yet somehow the movie does have fans, and, bless them, at least they can pump the music up with this release.
OriginLate Middle English (originally in nautical use): related to Dutch pomp 'ship's pump' (earlier in the sense 'wooden or metal conduit'), probably partly of imitative origin. Rhymesbump, chump, clump, crump, dump, flump, frump, gazump, grump, jump, lump, outjump, plump, rump, scrump, slump, stump, sump, thump, trump, tump, ump, whump noun pʌmppəmp 1Northern English A sports shoe; a plimsoll. 〈主北英格兰〉运动鞋；橡胶底浅口帆布鞋 Example sentencesExamples - If you buy the kids plimsolls for PE, rather than pumps, you probably live in East Yorkshire - or outside the region.
- She is as guilty as the next girl, admitting to jogging in tennis pumps rather than specialist running shoes.
- Amber ran down a side street, suddenly glad that she had worn tennis shoes instead of pumps.
- 1.1British A light shoe for dancing.
轻便舞鞋
2North American A court shoe. 〈北美〉女式无带浅口轻便鞋 Example sentencesExamples - I love those late 70s babes. All glossy red lips, court pumps, kinky smiles and not a hint of plastic surgery.
- In one hand she's holding her shoes, pink-colored pumps against her blue housedress.
- OK, so the shoes are made from exquisite leather and are diamond and feather studded but they were simply pumps with pointed heels and an elongated tapered toe.
- As she pivoted around, the perfectly dyed Italian pump snapped it's heel, leaving the actress with a dramatic limp.
- To top it off she stood in red high heel platform pumps.
- Her high heeled black pumps made hardly a sound on the tile floors.
- These beautiful Christian Louboutin Two Tone Court pumps are to simply die for.
- 2.1 A man's slip-on patent leather shoe for formal wear.
OriginMid 16th century: of unknown origin. nounpəmppəmp 1A mechanical device using suction or pressure to raise or move liquids, compress gases, or force air into inflatable objects such as tires. 泵 Example sentencesExamples - For the other hydraulically operated functions, the pressure is generated by a mechanical pump.
- Over 100 stations were forced to close after activists cut power to the petrol pumps and tied petrol pump nozzles together.
- Functioning basically like a pump, it compresses the refrigerant and provides pressure to force it around the rest of the cooling system.
- Dual hydraulic pumps evenly raise and lower the platform at a rate of 8 feet per minute.
- But crews armed with high pressure pumps move in today to remove the pigeons' deposits.
- Potential examples include switches in optical communication devices and pumps that move solutions though minuscule channels for mixing and analysis.
- One of these devices is the insulin pump, a mechanical device that can be programmed to deliver insulin more like the pancreas does.
- Once the vehicle is started the electric pump will level it and the mechanical pump will take over once the vehicle is moving.
- Manufacturers are boosting hydraulic flows by adding pumps and increasing pressures.
- The device is a mechanical pump that can take over the function of either the left or right chamber in the heart.
- Because they are mechanical systems, pumps with electrical connections should be checked at least once a year.
- If the energy is transferred to the fluid, thereby increasing its pressure, the devices are called pumps, fans, or compressors.
- The naturally occurring well is renowned for the purity of its water, which is drawn with the aid of a mechanical pump.
- The equipment is pushed to the limits of its hydraulic pistons and pumps as it moves heavy materials out of trenches into dump beds or across grades.
- The drug is usually administered daily via a mechanical pump that pumps the drug underneath the skin while the child is sleeping.
- Antiembolism stockings and pneumatic compression device pumps are placed on the patient's lower extremities and are used when the patient is in the hospital.
- In such an event the person concerned can be kept alive only by continuous artificial respiration by a mechanical pump.
- This pump is operated by aligning the rear cycle wheel with the mechanical pump wherein a rotor is provided for revolving the cycle wheel.
- Since they are powered entirely by hydraulic pumps, there is no mechanical transmission.
- Mechanical pumps can produce vacuums to the medium pressure level.
- 1.1in singular An instance of moving something by or as if by a pump.
泵送；抽吸，抽运 the pump of blood to her heart 泵进她心脏的血液。 Example sentencesExamples - My chest and triceps were toast and the pump of blood into the muscles was immense to say the least.
- This may be followed by another set of 10 reps for a final pump of nourishing blood.
- His pulse was weak and feverish, more like a shiver than the pump of his life's blood.
2Physiology
with modifier An active transport mechanism in living cells by which specific ions are moved through the cell membrane against a concentration gradient. 〔生理〕泵（指特定离子逆浓度梯度进行的跨膜主动运输机制） the bacterium's sodium pump 细菌钠泵。 Example sentencesExamples - In certain disease states, the capacity of membrane pumps to maintain normal concentration gradients may be compromised.
- Mechanisms of failure of calf muscle pump and venous hypertenion.
- The later hyperpolarization results from stimulation of the plasma membrane proton pump due to the cytosolic acidification associated with the activity of the nitrate transporter.
- All cells have sodium pumps in their membranes; these consume energy by hydrolysing adenosine triphosphate.
- In sufficient quantities, it can cause permanent damage to the cells' noradrenaline reuptake pump.
3US A pump-action shotgun. 〈美〉压动式猎枪 the shotgun was a 12-gauge pump
verbpəmppəmp 1with adverbial of direction Force (liquid, gas, etc.) to move by or as if by means of a pump. （用泵或似用泵）抽运，抽吸（液体、气体等） the blood is pumped around the body 血液被输送到全身。 no object if we pump long enough, we should bring the level up 我们只要抽足够长的时间就能使水面上升。 Example sentencesExamples - The jailed men want Shell to build the gas refinery offshore because they fear that pumping unrefined gas past their homes will lead to a health and safety risk.
- I hope people reading the book might think twice about the circumstances of the man who pumps their gas or the cashier who rings up their groceries.
- He used the steam engine to pump water out of mines.
- If we were to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the air, the earth would not recognize that it is able to dictate policy.
- Where no cut-off switches in the boreholes exist, this results in a combination of air and water being pumped to the reservoirs.
- He came out to the car and visited through the window while he pumped my gas.
- As anyone who has pumped gas knows, the higher the octane of fuel the higher the price.
- He actually had a job pumping gas (with a pay rate that didn't nearly cover the cost of the average bachelor apartment) so he was staying at the homeless shelter.
- In the end, the fire brigade were forced to pump water from a nearby river.
- I hate pumping my own gas and I hate checking the oil and water.
- Last month an elderly Mayo couple were left homeless when fire fighters were forced to pump water from a nearby river after their house caught fire in the middle of the night.
- This is done of course to protect the life of the president; apparently the lives of ordinary Americans pumping gas or loading their groceries do not warrant the same protection.
- He was pumping gas at a Sunoco station in Manassas, Virginia.
- In operation, water is pumped from the engine to the top tank, where it spreads over the tops of the tubes.
- Already there are ads on small screens that jabber at you while you pump your gas, while you use your ATM machine and while you wait in the supermarket line.
- We were trying to pump enough water away for people just to get out of their houses.
- The gas is pumped in at high-pressure, so it pushes down on the liquid product with a good amount of force.
- The Coalbrookdale Company had smelted its last iron in the area by 1821, and that year had dismantled the Resolution steam engine that pumped water up the dale to power the furnace bellows.
- He was pumping gas through the vent into my room.
- I remember when you casually mentioned to the attendant who pumped your gas that you were moving downtown, and he started to cry.
Synonyms force, drive, push, send, transport, raise, inject - 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move in spurts as though driven by a pump.
（泵抽似的）喷出 blood was pumping from a wound in his shoulder 血正从他肩部的伤口喷出来。 Example sentencesExamples - His nerves were jumping out his system, the adrenaline pumping and flowing like mad.
- Shock reigned for a few seconds, then heat surged, pumped through veins, and I responded.
- There's nothing like 'em for getting the blood pumping and feeling that surge of collective energy.
- The rush of adrenalin pumped through her veins, and Ashlyn raced toward Winnie and Rey's room.
- The scene is still vivid in my memory - I was mesmerised, I could feel my heart pumping and the adrenalin flow.
- The adrenaline was circulating, surging and pumping in the heat of the moment.
- But when the adrenaline is pumping to your brain, the hot, sticky blood coursing through your veins, who could resist?
- Nice little rush to get the blood pumping and get everybody in the proper mindset of combat.
- Adrenaline pumped through her blood as a dizzying rush of vertigo overcame her from looking down upon the streets far below.
- With her adrenaline pumping, Mac rushed with all her energy and capability towards the elevator doors.
- I struggled then, adrenaline suddenly pumping through my already rushing blood.
- Becca and I began to climb down, our veins pumping with the adrenaline rush of not only conquering the rigging, but in a storm, to help someone, and the captain at that.
- He ran a hand through his hair, the rush of adrenalin still pumping though him, then he sighed.
- When Harry's turned on, his adrenaline flows and the endorphins pump, and he feels alive instead of dead.
- The adrenaline rush took her on it's own course and she could feel the blood pumping in her ears.
- Blood pumped out of her wounds and sluggishly oozed down her body.
- This is because your body has adjusted to the constant stream of alcohol pumping through your system.
- My heart rate increases, my blood pumps faster and the adrenaline begins to surge.
- He looked terrible, armour torn and mangled while blood pumped from numerous wounds around his body.
- The reduced venous pressure reduces the return flow of blood into the heart, so the blood pumped out of the heart is correspondingly reduced.
Synonyms spurt, spout, squirt, jet, surge, spew, gush, stream, flow, flood, pour, spill, rush, well, cascade, run, course, discharge
2with object Draw (milk) from the breast using a breast pump, typically in order to feed a baby by means of a bottle. she struggled with pumping enough milk no object I've exclusively pumped for my youngest 3Fill (something such as a tire or balloon) with liquid or gas using a pump. I fetched the bike and pumped up the back tire my veins had been pumped full of glucose 我的静脉内已注满了葡萄糖。 Example sentencesExamples - Gemma had been pumped full of drugs all this time, so she needed time for her body to get back to normal.
- Nevertheless, he spent the holiday period, in agony, pumped full of painkillers, playing to over 6,000 people.
- The idea that farmed salmon are pumped full of chemicals is an urban myth.
- I couldn't see to read it, I wouldn't have understood it anyway, I was pumped full of morphine. I just held on to it for dear life.
- Most farmed animals are now crowded in sheds with dirty conditions and pumped full of drugs so they lead sad and unnatural lives.
- The pair arrived at the doctor's surgery and within minutes Kirsty was in an ambulance on the way to Christchurch hospital, where she was pumped full of antibiotics.
- He was still pumped full of rage but he also shocked and confused.
- I went home so pumped full of steroids that I literally went without sleep for nearly three weeks.
- I was pumped full of steroids intravenously and was in hospital for over two weeks.
- Glen says mass-farmed animals are pumped full of antibiotics to ward off potential diseases they may spread, due to their living in such close proximity to one another.
- The millisecond he stood up, he would be pumped full of steel.
- Surely they deserve more than to be pumped full of drugs, just to ensure that our overstretched military forces can continue to support the whims of politicians.
- Enough generations of children have already been pumped full of these types of prejudices.
- ‘Standard’ bacon is pumped full of salt water during the curing process.
- Soon I was on the table with an IV in my arm, pumped full of powerful narcotics, and ready to be probed by the ship manned by the hospital staff.
- Hopefully it was only because of the drugs I had been pumped full of.
- America is hungry… for food that is not drenched in pesticides, pumped full of antibiotics and covered with sealing wax.
- At times, when I was lying on my hospital bed being pumped full of chemotherapy drugs that made me as sick as a dog and caused my hair to fall out, I used to close my eyes and dream I was somewhere else.
- He seemed puffy, like he'd been pumped full of embalming fluid.
- Even for a devoted carnivore, you'd like to eat meat that's not been pumped full of antibiotics, steroids, and hormones.
- 3.1informal Shoot (bullets) into (a target).
将（子弹）射向目标 Example sentencesExamples - Having cornered him and pinned him to the ground they pumped five bullets into his head at close range.
- I watched as Alexandria pumped three bullets into Rafael's chest, and I saw him go down.
- As he rounded a corner, seven gunmen opened fire, pumping the car and driver full of bullet holes.
- And in 1995, he petrified holidaymakers by pumping a volley of bullets into the air outside a disco in the Caribbean resort of Cartagena.
- Handguns can pump bullets quickly and accurately, and rifles are likewise lighter, easier to use, and faster to reload.
4Move vigorously up and down. 用力上下晃动 with object we had to pump the handle like mad 我们只好拼命地晃动把手。 no object that's superb running—look at his legs pumping 他跑得真棒——看他两条腿翻飞的样子！ Example sentencesExamples - Then they pumped a handle on the press that squeezed the water out of the cylinder and formed tightly-packed disks.
- His rough left hand turned the handle on the pitch black pot while his right hand pumped a small bellows to encourage the fire.
- Ju had his left hand on the dome, hair standing on end as Ernie pumped the handle like fury.
- He pumped the handles of slot machines and bet feverishly on the roulette wheel.
- In the faint light we rose and sang hymns, accompanied by the organist sitting comfortably on the floor and using his right leg to pump the harmonium.
- 4.1 Apply and release (a brake pedal or lever) several times in quick succession, typically to prevent skidding.
（尤指为了防止打滑而）点踏（刹车板），点拉（操纵杆） Example sentencesExamples - I find that it helps to pump the rear brake lightly and quickly.
- Mr. Wehrman was pumping the gas pedal, an irritated expression on his face, holding the key in the ignition.
- Only some feral instinct keeps you pumping the brake pedal and steering into the skid, so that you slide instead of spin.
- Emlyn held the white bowl carefully with one hand, and, using all the strength in her other, pumped the lever until water began to stream out of the hole to her right.
- Details are still emerging, but it looks like he tried to pump his brake pedal, but instead found his accelerator pedal.
- 4.2Baseball Move one's arm as if throwing a ball held in the hand, but without releasing the ball.
in combination behind the plate Howard double-pumped, then threw to second Example sentencesExamples - If you pump fake the ball, you may actually see players downfield take a step toward where the throw would have gone.
5informal Try to elicit information from (someone) by persistent questioning. 〈非正式〉追问，探问，盘问（某人） she began to pump her friend for details 她开始追问好友，打听详细情况。 Example sentencesExamples - After they had pumped me dry of information, the CIC people let me go.
- They might try to pump him for information vital to the war effort, and that was never good.
- He was standing in the driveway talking to Chris and looking at his car, probably pumping him for information about where they were going and what they were doing.
- They asked Scott's friends to make certain calls to him and pump him for information, basically.
- We have pumped him for all the information he has.
- Charges hadn't even been filed, yet there I was stalking her street, putting on a concerned, serious face as I pumped her neighbors for tips.
- He'd rather play something else but if that's what it took to pump Adam for information he'd do it.
- My own father was pumping me dry for information!
- So why did he get the impression she was pumping him for information?
- The authorities didn't know at this stage of his movements overseas but they were keen to pump him for information on the prayer room, which was now under close surveillance.
- Anyway, our tutor, who believes we are all on the simple side, favours questions with easy and obvious answers and was pumping us for information on Louis XVI.
- Suffice it to say that after more than an hour of pumping the poor guy like a mostly-empty keg, by the time dessert was served, I had names.
- Then James wouldn't think she was pumping him for information.
- She'd been pumping me for information about Brad all week.
- Or was it because Alan had been lying, and he was trying to pump her for information about it?
- Elise was playing dumb, pumping her father for information.
- Having never had the pleasure of eating out at Est Est Est, I pumped my good friend Alison from Edinburgh for information.
- They'll pump him, try to get as much information out of him as possible.
- What she saw was a very clever ploy to pump her for information.
- Connie tried pumping her for information on what Hardwick wanted, but she evaded the questions so skillfully that Connie realized she was in a different league.
Synonyms ask, question, question intensely, question persistently, quiz, interrogate, probe, put questions to, sound out, cross-examine, catechize
PhrasesShake a person's hand vigorously. 用力地摇动…的手 Example sentencesExamples - ‘You keep that camera out and we're gonna have some fun boy!’ he greeted us like old friends, pumping my hand with startling vigour for an octogenarian invalid.
- He pumped my hand vigorously, his devilish eyes radiating excitement.
- The boy answered as he pumped his hand energetically.
- The Marine kept pumping his hand, saying, ‘You're lucky to have that one - she can take care of herself!’
- He pumped my hand vigorously and could barely stammer out his name.
- ‘Ellie Johansen,’ I managed to say, as he pumped my hand professionally.
- Trying desperately to make her way toward Gil, she found herself surrounded by well-wishers who touched her, congratulated her, thanked her, and pumped her hand until she thought her arm would fall off.
- He was a little weightlifter looking guy who pumped my hand like he was milking it.
- An enthusiastic supporter pumped his hand and spewed out some of his own conclusions.
- The man beams, then reaches out and pumps my hand enthusiastically.
informal Exercise with weights. 〈非正式〉用哑铃锻炼 Example sentencesExamples - Keith began pumping iron in high school and has continued to hit the weights even at his current heights of success.
- Interestingly, fitness exercise this time was not confined to pumping iron inside the gym.
- I don't believe in lifting weights, or pumping iron.
- I changed positions, and they had me in the weight room every day, pumping iron and drinking this nutrient to gain weight.
- She's sweated it out in a gym stuffed with infomercial gizmos while traveling in Morocco, pumped iron on homemade weight training equipment in Zimbabwe and run up and down more than her fair share of crumbling motel basement stairways.
- For today's media-literate, sophisticated children, pumping iron on a futuristic bench press is clearly more appealing than crouching in a draughty hall pretending to be a little acorn.
- I do regular workouts including cardiovascular exercise and pumping iron.
- While he pumps iron to improve his physique, Woods is a renowned couch potato, who likes nothing better than to lounge about with the remote control at his fingertips.
- Living in the city now, he goes to a gymnasium and pumps iron every morning.
- But it wasn't just the young and happening who gave up breakfast for pumping iron followed by a decaf, unsweetened cup of coffee with a dash of soya milk, the health wave affected everyone from teenagers to people in their sixties.
Phrasal VerbsInvest a large amount of money in (something) 〈非正式〉在…上投入大量资金 he pumped all his savings into building the boat 他把所有积蓄都用来造这艘小船了。 Example sentencesExamples - The Government is setting totally unrealistic targets and not pumping the money in.
- But the figures were immediately seized upon by critics of the service as unexceptional given how much money has been pumped into the venture.
- There should be no excuse for failure because colossal sums of money and other resources have been pumped into the Authority.
- I asked Chief Bernard, because I'd heard some residents express concern about how much money had been pumped into the Centre.
- One day, a lobbyist will get enough money and pump enough money into somebody's campaign, and that will be that.
- Such an upbeat prediction will be warmly welcomed by home owners across Scotland as many have shied away from investing in the stock market and opted instead to pump their savings into property.
- The only problem with this scenario is that unless someone pumps some money into the company soon, it will simply run out of cash and have to cease trading.
- As more and more parents put their kids in private school or homeschool them, the government will have an even bigger excuse to pump less money into the beleaguered public school system.
- The road network cannot cope with increasing traffic, no matter how much money is pumped in.
- It's envisaged the additional money will be pumped into better health and education programmes, with special priority for the HIV aids crisis in Africa.
- Addressing a meeting of the Coalfield Communities Campaign at the Labour conference, Mr Wilson defended his decision to pump enough money into the struggling pit in order to help to find a new owner.
- Bradford Council will not pump any money into Bradford City Football
- The site was owned by Waterford City Council, which will pump the money back into urban renewal programmes in the city, making it an even more attractive investment location.
- I'm guessing it means someone's going to pump a little money into the operation, maybe putting out a few more issues, trying to promote a brand-name that can be exploited for movies or videogames or other venues.
- Probably three times as much money was pumped into the venture industry than should have been.
- The Kennedy never has completely recovered, although, unlike The Boat, its owner eventually did pump some money into it.
- However much money is pumped into building stadiums, employing professional administrators and coaches, the collapses will continue unless domestic tournaments are properly organized and games played on the best pitches.
- Several foreign fund managers said they were taking profits in Singapore and pumping the money into markets that had been lagging behind, such as Malaysia.
- The bulk of the money will be pumped into restoring the village's Glebe garden, but cash will also be dished out to pay for hanging baskets and other floral projects.
- US corporations are not pumping their money into hiring full-time employees who earn a livable wage, receive health care benefits and get defined retirement pensions.
Produce or emit (something) in large quantities or amounts. 大量产出；大量排放 that little printing press pumped out our brochures for more than twenty years Example sentencesExamples - I haven't heard any of their post-major label work, but it appears they were pumping it out in spades until recently.
- And I kind of - after a while, I mean, I did 14 movies in six years, which is more than two a year, and just kind of pumping them out.
- ‘Pollutants were pumped out by the dark satanic mills and we had a century and a half of that,’ he said.
- A generation ago, cheap daytime soaps were pumped out to fill the gaps between ads for domestic cleaning products and provide some moving wallpaper for tranquillised housewives.
- But a great deal of the fleeing capital was earned then and there: Exports were pumped out at a much higher rate than imports were purchased.
- And the studios really want to seize on that momentum and pump those DVDs out as fast as they can when they're still in the forefront of people's minds.
- Other potters move on to vases, abstract sculptures, maybe even attempt a bust, but Ron just stays the course pumping out ashtray after ashtray.
- The manufacturer, Roche, is pumping it out at full pelt, but global demand has gone berserk.
- That's why no matter how many love-against-all-odds-under-Nazi-occupation epics are pumped out in time for Oscar consideration, we eat 'em up, especially when they are as beautifully photographed and paced as Zelary.
- People like to hear stuff that sounds familiar to them and the North American music industry loves to keep pumping it out.
she needs to read and pump up her political grip 她需要广泛阅读，以提高政治水平。 Example sentencesExamples - But because of politicians who use the military to pump up corporate profits instead of defending us, that was a long time ago.
- Innocent people were being harmed because of the hysteria that was pumped up by the government for its own political purposes.
- By the way, this part of OCZ's activity starts looking more and more attractive, because it allows increasing the system performance significantly without pumping up the working frequencies and voltages.
- In so doing, these writers further increase the girth of their text, pump up the load on their servers, and ensure that the race against mouthfuls of extraneous words will continue until they run out of time.
- These preparers are more likely to illegally pump up your refund to increase their profits.
- 1.1Turn up the volume of (music)
〈非正式〉把音乐的音量调大 let's pump up those tunes, man Example sentencesExamples - Got home, put the disk in the real stereo, pumped it up as high as it would go, and I listened to the last movement four times in a row, just to wait for the moment when That Melody rolled out.
- Seems that the music is pumped up so loudly in the mix than it drowns out everything, and since this is a movie where people speak way too softly, lots of dialogue and double crossing plot machinations are missed.
- Yet somehow the movie does have fans, and, bless them, at least they can pump the music up with this release.
- He never even steps into the mela but instead parks his motor at the entrance and pumps the music up loud.
- 1.2Give inappropriate support and encouragement to.
给…不妥当的支持和鼓励 we let them pump up our egos 我们听任他们吹捧我们自己。 Example sentencesExamples - He thought, at first, it might pump up his male ego to have so many women lusting after him, but when he went home at night, he couldn't shower long enough to erase the memories.
- The more we broadcast his work, the more we pump up his ego and the more he kills.
- All that is needed is literacy, but Bloom and his cohorts wish to pump up their own egos by maintaining that the general public needs more.
- The problem I see is that everyone is telling this kid how good he is and will be, pumping up that 11 year old ego.
- Though he was in trade sales, he really moved the retail way by encouraging secondary sales to pump up primary trade sales.
- Fashion as an industry is neither self-indulgence nor pumped up egos.
- On the contrary, he actively encouraged Hawks to pump up the action whilst fighting the Hays Office tooth and nail over every cut proposed.
- After three weeks, however, she had grown tired of the Tinseltown value system which pumps up star egos with flowers, champagne and enormous Winnebagos while refusing to pay for a single rehearsal.
- Those who really know don't have to get their egos pumped up by leaking to the press.
- It pumps up your ego, makes you feel a part of something big, beyond your horizon.
OriginLate Middle English (originally in nautical use): related to Dutch pomp ‘ship's pump’ (earlier in the sense ‘wooden or metal conduit’), probably partly of imitative origin. nounpəmppəmp 1A woman's plain, lightweight shoe that has a low-cut upper, no fastening, and typically a medium heel. - 1.1 A man's slip-on patent leather shoe for formal wear.
2Northern English A sports shoe; a plimsoll. 〈主北英格兰〉运动鞋；橡胶底浅口帆布鞋 - 2.1British A light shoe for dancing.
轻便舞鞋
OriginMid 16th century: of unknown origin. |