pool /puːl/ CET4 TEM4 ( pooling, pooled, pools )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT A pool is the same as a . 游泳池

  例：

  ...a heated indoor pool.

  …一个室内温水游泳池。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT A pool is a fairly small area of still water. 水池

  例：

  The pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds.

  该水池已经干涸，长满了欧洲蕨和芦苇。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT A pool of liquid or light is a small area of it on the ground or on a surface. 一滩 (液体); 一片 (光)

  例：

  She was found lying in a pool of blood.

  她被发现躺在一滩血泊中。

  例：

  It was raining quietly and steadily and there were little pools of water on the gravel drive.

  雨正静静地下着，砂砾车道上积了一滩滩的水。

• 4. 

  N-COUNT A pool of people, money, or things is a quantity or number of them that is available for an organization or group to use. 一拨人; 一笔钱; 一笔物资

  例：

  The available pool of healthy manpower was not as large as military officials had expected.

  一拨可用的健康劳力人数达不到军方官员们的期望值。

• 5. 

  N-UNCOUNT any of various billiard games in which the object is to pot all the balls with the cue ball, esp that played with 15 coloured and numbered balls; pocket billiards 落袋台球戏

• 6. 

  → see also carpool

• 7. 

  V-T If a group of people or organizations pool their money, knowledge, or equipment, they share it or put it together so that it can be used for a particular purpose. 集中(资金、知识或设备，供大家分享)

  例：

  We pooled ideas and information.

  我们汇集了意见和信息。