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VERB
通過虹吸管吸(或輸送、抽干)
If you siphon liquid from a container, you make it come out through a tube and down into a lower container by enabling the pressure of the air on it to push it out.
例句
She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum...
她把一根塑料管放進嘴里，開始從一個巨大的金屬桶里吸氣。
Tell Mac to siphon petrol out of his wagon.
讓馬克把他車里的汽油抽出來。
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N-COUNT
虹吸管
A siphon is a tube that you use for siphoning liquid.
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VERB
抽取，抽出，挪用(金錢或資源)
If you siphon money or resources from something, you cause them to be used for a purpose for which they were not intended.
例句
He had siphoned thousands of pounds a week from the failing business...
他一周之內從這家瀕臨破產的企業里抽走了數千英鎊的資金。
They siphon foreign aid money into their personal bank accounts.
他們把國外救濟金非法轉入了個人銀行賬戶。