pool
noun uk/puːl/ us/puːl/
(LIQUID)
B2 [ C ]水塘，水池，潭
a small area of usually still water
We looked for crabs in the rock pools along the seashore. 我们在海边岩石的水坑里找螃蟹。
B2 [ C ]（液体的）一滩，一片
a small amount of liquid on a surface
a pool of blood/oil 一滩血／油
figurative a pool of light 一小片光亮
A2 [ C ]游泳池（同 swimming pool）
a swimming pool
I spent most of my holiday lying/sunbathing by the pool. 我假期的大部分时间都在游泳池旁躺着／晒太阳。
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- The boys were splashing about and ducking each other in the pool.
- I just managed to grab hold of Lucy before she fell in the pool.
- a pool of sunlight
- She looked at her reflection in the deep green pool of water.
- She dipped her toe into the pool to see how cold it was.
(COLLECTION)
[ C ]共享人员;共享资金;共享资源
a number of people or a quantity of a particular thing, such as money, collected together for shared use by several people or organizations
Patrick crashed a Ford that he'd borrowed from the car pool at work. 帕特里克把他从公司车队借的一辆福特汽车撞坏了。
As unemployment rises, the pool of cheap labour increases. 随着失业的上升，廉价劳动力的数量也在增加。
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- During times of mass unemployment, there's a pool of cheap labour for employers to draw from.
- Did Gary win the office pool?
- Everybody puts some money into a common pool.
- We need a reserve pool of cash, just to be on the safe side.
- We're recruiting from a large pool of graduate lawyers.
(MONEY)
[ C ]彩池（在一些纸牌游戏中，所有玩家都要先支付一定金额的钱，最后胜出者将能赢得整笔款项，此款项称为彩池）
in some card games, an amount of money that is collected from all the players and received by the player who wins the game
[ C ] US（一众参与者的）全部赌注
the money risked by a number of people on the result of a game or event
a baseball/football/hockey pool 棒球／足球／曲棍球赌注
the office pool 办公室合赌
Who won the pool? 谁赢了这次合赌？
the pools[ plural ] UK (also football pools) 足球赌博
a type of gambling in which people risk a small amount of money and try to guess the results of football games correctly and win a lot of money
do the pools They do the pools every week. 他们每个星期都赌球。
His brother won £150,000 on the pools.
Other than winning the football pools, we have no chance of owning our own house.
She booked the cruise after a lucky win on the pools.
When she was in her thirties, she won a small fortune on the football pools.
(GAME)
B1 [ U ]落袋台球
a game in which two people use cues (= long, thin poles) to hit 16 coloured balls into six holes around the edge of a large table covered in soft cloth
a pool table/room/hall 落袋台球桌／球房
mainly US informal Do you want to shoot (= play) some pool? 你想打台球吗？
Compare: snooker noun
pool
verb [ T ] uk/puːl/ us/puːl/
（为不同人士或团体）集合（资金／资源）
to collect something such as money in order for it to be used by several different people or groups
The kids pooled their money to buy their parents a wedding anniversary gift. 孩子们把钱凑在一起为父母买了结婚周年礼物。