drain
美 [dreɪn] 
英 [dreɪn]
- n.消耗；下水道；排水管；耗竭
- v.排空；流出；（使）流光；放干
- 网络漏极；排水沟；耗尽
词形变化
第三人称单数：drains 现在分词：draining 过去式：drained 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | [t][i] ~ (sth) 排空；（使）流光；放干to make sth empty or dry by removing all the liquid from it; to become empty or dry in this way |
| Drain and rinse the pasta. 把通心粉过一过水。 |
| The marshes have been drained. 沼泽地里的水已排干。 |
| You will need to drain the central heating system before you replace the radiator. 你得先把中央供暖系统的水排净再更换散热器。 |
| The swimming pool drains very slowly. 游泳池里的水排得很慢。 |
| Leave the dishes to drain. 把碟子控干。 |
2. | [t][i] （使）流走，流出to make liquid flow away from sth; to flow away |
| We had to drain the oil out of the engine. 我们必须把发动机里的机油全部放掉。 |
| Drain off the excess fat from the meat. 把肉里面多余的油沥掉。 |
| She pulled out the plug and the water drained away. 她拔掉塞子，让水流走了。 |
| My anger slowly drained away. 我的怒火慢慢平息下来。 |
| The river drains into a lake. 这条河流入湖中。 |
| All the colour drained from his face when I told him the news 我把这消息告诉他时他脸色变得煞白。 |
| His face drained of colour. 他的脸上血色全无。 |
3. | [t] ~ sth 喝光；喝干to empty a cup or glass by drinking everything in it |
| In one gulp, he drained the glass. 他一口喝干了杯中的水。 |
| She quickly drained the last of her drink. 她一下子就把最后一点儿酒喝掉了。 |
4. | [t] 使（精力、金钱等）耗尽to make sb/sth weaker, poorer, etc. by using up their/its strength, money, etc. |
| My mother's hospital expenses were slowly draining my income. 我母亲的住院开销把我的收入渐渐耗光了。 |
| an exhausting and draining experience 令人精疲力竭的一段经历 |
| I felt drained of energy. 我感到筋疲力尽。 |
1. | [c] 下水道；排水管a pipe that carries away dirty water or other liquid waste |
| We had to call in a plumber to unblock the drain. 我们只得叫个管子工来疏通下水道。 |
| The drains(= the system of pipes) date from the beginning of the century. 下水道排水系统是本世纪初修的。 |
2. | [c] 下水道孔盖a frame of metal bars over the opening to a drain in the ground |
3. | [c] （浴缸、水池等的）排水孔，渗水孔，漏眼a hole in a bath/ bathtub , sink , etc. where the water flows away and into which a plug fits |
4. | [sing] a ~ on sb/sth 消耗；耗竭；耗费a thing that uses a lot of the time, money, etc. that could be used for sth else |
| Military spending is a huge drain on the country's resources. 军费开支是对国家资源的巨大耗费。 |
习惯用语
(go) down the drain
（被）浪费掉；（变得）非常糟糕(to be) wasted; (to get) very much worse
| It's just money down the drain, you know. 你要知道，这是白白丢钱。 |
| Safety standards have gone down the drain. 安全标准根本不管用了。 |
英汉解释
v. | 1. 排去(水等液体),排泄,放干 (away; off) 6. (水等液体)流掉,渐渐淌完 (away; off) |
n. | 1. 排水,放干;(财富等的)外流,枯竭;耗费,负担 |
英英解释
例句
The speed of the reflex seems to favor the first theory, as it happens much too quickly for tears to be generated and drain into the nose.
该反射速度似乎有利于第一种理论，因为它发生的眼泪过于迅速生成并于鼻漏。
No matter how much 'control' he exerts on himself, he's just going to drain away his account in a controlled manner.
无论那些人怎么控制他自己，他也只会是稳稳地把钱都亏出去。
Either of two large veins that drain blood from the upper body and from the lower body and empty into the right atrium of the heart.
腔静脉把血从身体的上部和下部抽光然后流入心脏的右心房的两支大静脉之一
One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.
其中一个每天都可以坐在自己的床上一小时来帮助排空肺里的积水。
His wife's illness has been a great drain on his income.
他妻子的病要用去他的大部分收入。
The lamb was allowed to sit up in hissed for an hour a day to drain the fluids from his lungs.
小羊每天可以从床上坐起来一个小时，用来排出他肺里的液体。
In the case of a pit drain, ensure an adequate air gap exists between the bottom of the drain line and the bottom of the pit.
在坑内排放时，请确保在排放管线和坑底部之间有适当的气隙存在。
The victim was still alive at this point and remained so as firefighters used a tow truck to pull him from the drain.
然这时候的他还活着并没有死，于是消防队员就用拖车将他从雨水道里拉了出来。
It's incredibly addictive, and you'll notice your phone battery quickly drain as you spend hours trying to conquer each level.
这游戏极其令人上瘾，你会发现自己的手机电池很快耗光在征服每个关卡所花的时间上。
He hitched one end of a rope around the drain pipe and the other one around his waist, then climbed down the building.
他把绳子的一头拴在下水管上，另一头拴在他的腰上，借助绳子爬下了楼。
For Ford, its failed attempt to build a European-led range of premier marques has been a drain of both cash and management time.
福特企图建立欧洲高级车型的失败耗尽了它的资金和管理层精力。
I never have enough of the soap dishes that drain (I don't like the plate types), and I "discovered" this by accident.
底部可以控水的肥皂盒我从不嫌多（而我不喜欢那种碟子状的）。
"Look at my frog! " said Avery, placing the frog on the drain board and holding out his hand for pie.
“看看我的青蛙吧。”艾弗利说，把青蛙放在滴水板上，伸出手去拿蓝莓派。
Neptune retrograde may have created a bit of a financial drain, or some unforeseen expenses.
海王星逆行已经创造了个一段金融漏管，或一些不可预见的花费。
When the Kelveys were well out of sight of Burnells', they sat down to rest on a big red drain-pipe by the side of the road.
凯尔维姐妹俩一直跑到看不见耐尔家才停了下来，她们跌坐在路边红色的大水管上休息着。
The potions both Snape and Hermione made Vanish must have ended up in a drain or other disposal location then.
斯内普和赫敏消失的魔药肯定被倒在排水沟里或别的处理它的地方。
An excrement outlet at the bottom of the close stool is connected with a toilet drain tube through the siphon tube.
坐便器底部的排便口通过虹吸软管与卫生间排污管连接。
After turning off the engine, wait for at least 5 minutes for the oil to drain back into the bottom of the engine.
在发动机熄火后，为了让机油流回发动机底部，至少要等5分钟。
Rubber hoses will not be used to connect a hot system with a cold system or to drain hot liquids from any system.
橡皮软管不能用于冷系统和热系统之间的连接或从任一系统排放热液体。
During pregnancy the extra estrogen in your system is responsible for less strands ending up in your brush and down the shower drain.
怀孕期间身体系统内多余的雌激素保证你每天梳子上和洗漱池里面掉少量的头发。
He hitched one end of a rope around the drain pipe and the other one around his waist, then climbed down the building.
他把绳子的一头拴在下水管上，另一头拴在他的腰上，借助绳子爬下了楼。
Still, the economist is still likely to see the merits of a brain-drain tax on the outflow of human capital.
不过，这位经济学家可能还是看到对人力资本外流征收一种人才外流税的种种优点。
A raised wire frame should be placed under it with a drain provided in the floor.
在它的下面应当有一个高出地面的铁丝网，地板里设有排水沟。
The coffee grains plugged up the kitchen drain.
咖啡渣堵塞了厨房排水沟。
Your grandfather isn't likely to consent to it unless he can make sure that he's not got any other drain on him.
你外公未见得肯答应，除非他弄清楚别的方面没有再开销他的地方。
Soils with earthworms drain from four to ten times faster than soils without earthworms.
有蚯蚓的比没有蚯蚓的土壤排水快4-10倍。
Something has stopped the drain up.
有什么东西把下水道给塞住了。
Let's drain away the flood waters.
来把洪水排掉。
The water will soon drain away [off].
水很快就会流掉。
Hackett was prepared to pour the batch down the drain if it tasted awful.
如果味道糟糕的话，哈科特准备倒掉这批酒。
He said "our banking system is going to lose hundreds of billions of dollars" and taxpayer money was "going down the drain" .
他说：不仅“我们的银行体系将要损失数以千亿的美元”，而且纳税人的钱也会付诸东流。
For a while it was such a drain on News Corporation that the parent company came close to bankruptcy.
但是成立不久它就快耗尽了新闻集团的财力，它的母公司濒临破产。
If you're a mobile warrior, and you want to run around with a notebook, it's going to be a terrible drain on batteries.
如果你是一个“移动的战士”，而且你想要带着一台笔记本到处跑，这将会对电池是个巨大的损耗。
Then the water on the side of the road went down into a big drain, and the boat did, too.
这时路旁的水往下流进一个大排水管里，这艘船也跟着驶进去。
The trouble with trying to maintain an old car is that you're always pouring money down the drain to keep it roadworthy.
试图维修这辆旧车的困难在于，总要花大本钱才能使它开得动。
Let's dry in a hot towel and let all that water drain out of the tub.
用热毛巾把自己擦干净，然后放掉浴缸中的水。
the other half, it landed him in solitary. Warden Norton's "grain & drain" vacation. Bread, water, and all the privacy you could want.
“另一半情况，他则会被关禁闭――典狱长诺顿的“吃饱与消耗”休假。面包、水，所有独处（禁闭）用的必需品。”
Can be part of the migrant workers back to farming, but many have no way of the drain, must be rehoused in other ways.
部分民工可回乡务农，但不少却已是无地的外流人员，必须以其它方法安置。
The drain bottle holder is provided behind the front panel for easy to check the drain water level.
前面门内面设置了透明排水塑料桶，便于观察水位。
All that liquid fat running down the plughole will probably be slowly constricting the drain of your sink.
所有流下下水口的液态脂肪很有可能会缓缓堵塞下水管的流量。
We have said it would all be sudden as the dark whirlwind goes down the drain, just as you see water swirl down a drain.
我们曾说过一旦黑暗势力白白浪费良机，这就会很突然的发生，就像水被漩涡吸走那样迅猛。
The assembly shall also include two resilient seated isolation valves, four resilient seated test cocks and an air gap drain fitting.
这种总成还应该包括两个弹性密封隔离阀，四个弹性密封测试旋塞和一个气隙排放连接件。
If bubbles do not immediately coalesce, the liquid can drain down and produce a structure like that shown in figure 1.
如果泡泡们没有立即融合，液体会流走并产生出如图1所示的一种结构。
Bushmen in collecting food do not drain the kind of thing, they are often collected at various points between the rotation operations.
布须曼人在采集食物时决不做那种竭泽而渔的事情，她们常常在各个采集点之间轮换作业。
Drain the girl, drain her power until there is nothing but a vacant shell.
吸干这女孩的能量，直到她彻底变成一具躯壳。
Clean floor drain outlets at least once a week to prevent putrid air and insects in the soil pipes from entering the premises.
地台排水口最少每星期清洁一次，以防止污水渠内的臭味或昆虫进入楼宇内。
Still, the economist is still likely to see the merits of a brain-drain tax on the outflow of human capital.
不过，这位经济学家可能还是看到对人力资本外流征收一种人才外流税的种种优点。
Can be disposed of into the drain system or composted together with food waste or grass cuttings and will produce a fertile humus.
填充料可以直接弃置于污渠系统或与食物残渣或剪草一起堆肥，以产生肥沃的腐植土。
Chiew Ah Chan said she was cleaning her house on Wednesday when she saw the toad trying to hop out of a drain.
陈女士说，她在居所打扫卫生时看见一只癞蛤蟆正试图从下水道里跳出来。
