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percolate

/verb pur-kuh-leyt; noun pur-kuh-lit, -leyt/US // verb ˈpɜr kəˌleɪt; noun ˈpɜr kə lɪt, -ˌleɪt //

浸润,渗入,渗滤,渗出

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v.有主动词 verb
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    per·co·lat·ed, per·co·lat·ing.

    • : to cause to pass through a porous body; filter.
    • : to filter through; permeate.
    • : to brew in a percolator.
v.无主动词 verb
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    per·co·lat·ed, per·co·lat·ing.

    • : to pass through a porous substance; filter; ooze; seep; trickle.
    • : to become percolated: The coffee is starting to percolate.
    • : to become active, lively, or spirited.
    • : to show activity, movement, or life; grow or spread gradually; germinate: Interest in the idea has begun to percolate.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a percolated liquid.

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Examples

  • Russian militants continue to percolate through the Ukrainian border, hoping their Kremlin-stoked fantasies will come true.

  • And this effect would probably percolate up the food chain somewhat.

  • Novel gun control ideas continue to percolate through the commentariat.

  • I realize now that I was naive to think any of that would percolate through.

  • In the U.S., it took more than a decade for the lessons to percolate from the teach-ins to the startups.

  • With pulp treated in steeping tanks, fresh water is allowed to percolate or drain slowly through the mass.

  • No water can percolate athwart it, and consequently where it is, there the superincumbent soil is resolved into a quagmire.

  • The Gulf had risen close enough to their little well to percolate through the sand into it and render it as salt as itself.

  • Concentrate the weak percolate to a soft extract and dissolve in the reserved portion.

  • Through pressure of instincts from past lives, strengths or weaknesses percolate gradually into human consciousness.