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- a large receptacle or storage chamber, especially for liquid or gas（尤指存放液体或气体的）大容器, 箱, 罐。
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- the container holding the fuel supply in a motor vehicle（汽车上的）油箱。
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- a receptacle with transparent sides in which to keep fish; an aquarium鱼缸。
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- short for TANK ENGINE.TANK ENGINE的简称。
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- Indian & Austral./NZ a reservoir〈印度, 澳/新西兰〉蓄水池。
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- a heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track坦克。
- ORIGIN: from the use of tank as a secret code word during manufacture in 1915.
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- US informal a cell in a police station or jail〈美, 非正式〉（警察局或监狱的）牢房。
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- no obj. fill the tank of a vehicle with fuel给车辆加油：
the cars stopped to tank up.
汽车停下来加油。
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be/get tanked up
informal drink heavily; become drunk〈非正式〉大量喝酒; 喝醉：they get tanked up before the game.
他们在比赛之前喝醉了。
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- no obj. US informal fail completely, especially at great financial cost〈美, 非正式〉彻底地失败（尤指巨大的财政损失）。
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- with obj. N. Amer. informal (in sport) deliberately lose or fail to finish (a match)〈北美, 非正式〉（体育比赛中）故意输掉（或不比完）（比赛）。
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- informal, chiefly Scottish defeat heavily〈非正式, 主苏格兰〉使惨败：
Rangers tanked the local side 8-0.
流浪者队以8比0大败主场队。
派生词
tankful
noun （pl. -fuls）tankless
adjective词源
early 17th cent.: perhaps from Gujarati tānkũ or Marathi tānkẼ 'underground cistern'， from Sanskrit tadāga 'pond'， probably influenced by Portuguese tangue 'pond'， from Latin stagnum.