Drain

(noun.) emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it.

(noun.) a gradual depletion of energy or resources; 'a drain on resources'; 'a drain of young talent by emigration'.

(noun.) a pipe through which liquid is carried away.

(noun.) tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material.

(verb.) empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; 'We drained the oil tank'.

(verb.) deplete of resources; 'The exercise class drains me of energy'.

(verb.) flow off gradually; 'The rain water drains into this big vat'.

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• A drain for the boy,' said Toby, half-filling a wine-glass. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I should like to take a great deal of land, and drain it, and make a little colony, where everybody should work, and all the work should be done well. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• To preserve meat immerse for twenty minutes in the hot solution, after which let it drain for one hour; then pack in a well-closed vessel. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• She sucked the blood: she said she'd drain my heart, said Mason. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I assure you that two thousand pounds would be a drain upon her resources, and that the sum you name is utterly beyond her power. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• The enclosure of Norland Common, now carrying on, is a most serious drain. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• He was always a man of iron nerve, and the story is still told in India how he crawled down a drain after a wounded man-eating tiger. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• There was a bath in that corner, from which the water had been hastily drained off. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Of late it had been easy enough for me to look sad: a cankering evil sat at my heart and drained my happiness at its source--the evil of suspense. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• As she spoke, she drained the basin into the ashes of the fire, and broke the bottle on the hearth. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The lack of water caused not only personal inconvenience and business paralysis, but it occasioned real danger of disease through unflushed sewers and insufficiently drained pipes. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• He raised the glass to his lips as we went in and drained it at a draught. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The effervescence of boys on the street, wasted and perverted through neglect or persecution, was drained and applied to fine uses. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Fortifying himself with this assurance, Sikes drained the glass to the bottom, and then, with many grumbling oaths, called for his physic. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Gutters and pipes had burst, drains had overflowed, and streets were under water. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• My own family drains me to the last penny. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It is certainly an unpleasant thing, replied Mr. Dashwood, to have those kind of yearly drains on one's income. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Not the drains, I hope? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• In a farm where all the necessary buildings, fences, drains, communications, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• When water falls upon a field, it soaks into the ground, or collects in puddles which slowly evaporate, or it runs off and drains into small streams or into rivers. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Their buildings were furnished wi th systems of drains and flushes that seem to us altogether modern. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The absence of all valves renders it very suitable for draining marshes, and for other similar purposes, as the muddy water and suspended matters will not obstruct its action. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• In those countries, the universities are continually draining the church of all its most eminent men of letters. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Sometimes, I walk; sometimes, I proceed in cabs, draining the pocket of the schoolmaster who then follows in cabs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• She poured out a cup, and drank it with a frightful avidity, which seemed desirous of draining the last drop in the goblet. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Garth has drawn me in uncommonly with repairs, draining, that sort of thing: I'm uncommonly out of pocket with one thing or another. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The knight made his obeisance, and showed his sense of the honour by draining a huge goblet in answer to it. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.

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