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- a tube or pipe that is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, used for guiding liquid or powder into a small opening漏斗。
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- a thing resembling such a tube or pipe in shape or function漏斗状物; 起漏斗作用的东西：
a funnel of light fell from a circular ceiling.
漏斗状的光束从圆形的天花板往下照。
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- a metal chimney on a ship or steam engine（船、蒸汽机车上的）烟囱。
(funnelled, funnelling; <美> funneled, funneling) with obj. and adverbial of direction
1- guide or channel (something) through or as if through a funnel通过漏斗将…导入; 使通过漏斗般输送：
some $12.8 billion was funnelled through the Marshall Plan.
约128亿美元通过马歇尔计划很快花费掉了。
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- no obj., with adverbial of direction move or be guided through or as if through a funnel通过漏斗流入（或被导向）; 使通过漏斗般流入（或被导向）：
the wind funnelled down through the valley.
风从山谷吹过。
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- no obj. assume the shape of a funnel by widening or narrowing at the end（一端逐渐扩大或收缩）形成漏斗状：
the crevice funnelled out.
裂缝的一端扩大了。
派生词
funnel-like
adjective词源
late Middle English: apparently via Old French from Provençal fonilh, from late Latin fundibulum, from Latin infundibulum, from infundere, from in- 'into' + fundere 'pour'.