| 释义 |
cesspool/ˈsespu:l/n. 1 an underground container for the temporary storage of liquid waste or sewage (临时)污水池；化粪池 2 a centre of corruption, depravity, etc. 污秽的场所；腐化堕落的场所 [perhaps alteration, influenced by POOL1, of earlier cesperalle, from suspiral ‘vent, water pipe, settling tank’, via Old French souspirail ‘air-hole’ from Latin suspirare ‘breathe, sigh’ (as SUB-, spirare ‘breathe’)] |