词汇精选:leak的用法和辨析
一、详细释义:
n.
漏洞,裂缝
例句:
A whole tankful of gas dropped away because of the tiny leak.
由于这个小小的漏洞,整整一油箱的汽油都漏光了。
例句:
I smell gas , there must be a leak somewhere.
我闻到了煤气味,一定是什么地方漏气了。
泄漏
例句:
The leak of information was officially inspired.
这一情报的泄漏是官方授意的。
例句:
More serious leaks, possibly involving national security, are likely to be investigated by the police.
可能涉及国家安全的更严重泄密会受到警方的调查。
【俚】撒尿
例句:
I stood there taking a leak.
我站在那儿撒尿。
v.
(使)渗漏 [I,T]
例句:
Our ship is leaking.
我们的船漏了。
例句:
The water is leaking in through the cracks.
水正从裂缝中渗进来。
泄露 [I,T]
例句:
Mr. Ashton accused police of leaking information to the press.
艾什顿先生指控警察向媒体泄露了消息。
例句:
We don't know how the transcript leaked.
我们不知道抄本是怎样泄露的。
二、词义辨析:
leak,drip
这两个动词含“滴,漏”之意。leak侧重液体或气体等从容器漏出,或泄漏了消息。drip侧重以点滴形式下落,也指漏出或溢出。
三、相关短语:
leak out
透露,泄漏出
take a leak
撒尿
四、参考例句:
The leak of information was officially inspired.
这一情报的泄漏是官方授意的。
Can you smell a gas leak?
你能闻到煤气漏气吗?
The leak of information was officially inspired.
这一情报的泄漏是官方授意的。
Plug a leak in the barrel.
用塞子堵住大桶的漏洞。
Since heat leak is always present, vaporization takes place continuously.
由于热泄露总是存在,蒸发不断地发生。
A small leak will sink a great ship.
小漏不补沉大船。
A hydrogen leak forced NASA to ground the space shuttle.
氢气泄漏迫使美国国家航空航天局停止了航天飞机的发射。
The yacht has sprung a leak in the hull.
帆船的船体上出现了一条裂缝。
A great leak was filling the ship with water.
海水正从一个很大的漏洞往船里灌。
I didn't leak the story to the newspapers.
我没有将事情透漏给报纸。