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- a small area of still water, typically one formed naturally池塘, 池, 洼, 潭。
1.1
- a small, shallow patch of liquid lying on a surface一摊, 一片（液体）：
a pool of blood
一摊血
figurative〈喻〉 the lamps cast pools of light on the wet streets.
这些灯在湿漉漉的大街上撒下了一片片灯光。
1.2
- a swimming pool游泳池。
1.3
- a deep place in a river（河的）深水处; 深潭。
no obj.
1- (of water or another liquid) form a pool on the ground or another surface（水或其他液体）积成池（或洼、潭）：
the oil pooled behind the quay walls, escaping slowly into the river.
油在码头岸壁后积成了潭, 并慢慢流进河流中。
1.1
- (of blood) accumulate in parts of the venous system（血液）在静脉中淤积。
词源
Old English pōl, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch poel and German Pfuhl.
1
- a supply of vehicles or goods available for use when needed共用车辆（或商品）：
a car pool.
共用汽车队。
1.1
- a group of people available for work when required共用人员：
the typing pool.
联合打字组。
1.2
- a group of people considered as a resource人力资源：
a nationwide pool of promising high-school students.
全国有前途的中学生资源。
1.3
- an arrangement, illegal in many countries, between competing parties to fix prices or rates and share business in order to eliminate competition垄断性联营。
1.4
- a common fund into which all contributors pay and from which financial backing is provided集合基金：
big public investment pools.
大型公共投资基金。
1.5
- a source of common funding for speculative operations on financial markets金融投机基金源：
a huge pool of risk capital.
一大笔风险资本基金源。
1.6
- a group of contestants who compete against each other in a tournament for the right to advance to the next round预赛组。
1.7
- the collective amount of players' stakes in gambling or sweepstakes; a kitty集体赌注; 抽头。
1.8
- （一般作the pools）another term for FOOTBALL POOL.
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- mass noun a game played on a small billiard table using two sets of seven coloured and numbered balls together with one black ball and a white cue ball, with the aim of pocketing all one's own balls and then the black落袋台球戏。
with obj.
1
- (of two or more people or organizations) put (money or other assets) into a common fund（多人或组织）把（钱或其他资金）集中共用：
they entered a contract to pool any gains and invest them profitably.
他们签了一个合同, 将盈利集中起来并进行赢利性投资。
1.1
- share (things) in common, for the benefit of all those involved共享：
as noun pooling a pooling of ideas.集思广益。
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- Austral. informal implicate or inform on〈澳, 非正式〉使受牵连, 告密。
- ORIGIN: early 20th cent.: special use of pool 'to share'.
词源
late 17th cent. (originally denoting a game of cards having a pool)： from French poule in the sense 'stake, kitty', associated with POOL1.