7VERB 共用,聚拢(资金、知识、设备等) If a group of people or organizations pool their money, knowledge, or equipment, they share it or put it together so that it can be used for a particular purpose. 共用,聚拢(资金、知识、设备等)
We pooled ideas and information. [VERB noun]
我们集思广益,共享信息。
Philip and I pooled our savings to start up my business. [VERB noun]
8N-UNCOUNT 落袋台球戏Pool is a game played on a large table covered with a cloth. Players use a long stick called a cue to hit a white ball across the table so that it knocks coloured balls with numbers on them into six holes around the edge of the table. 落袋台球戏
We played pool together and were good mates.
我们一起打过台球,是好哥们儿。
The Seaman was a bar for pool players and hard drinkers.
“水手”是供台球玩家和酒徒消遣的酒吧。
He was shooting pool with two other men.
他在和另外两个男人打落袋台球。
9N-PLURAL (下注猜足球比赛结果的)赌球 If you do the pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing correctly the results of football matches. (下注猜足球比赛结果的)赌球 [British]
The odds of winning the pools are about one in 20 million.