1A small area of still water, typically one formed naturally.

1. 1.1 A shallow patch of liquid lying on a surface.
   一摊，一片（液体）
   a pool of blood

   一摊血。

   figurative the lamps cast pools of light on the wet streets

   〈喻〉这些灯在湿漉漉的大街上撒下了一片片灯光。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • A man was left lying in a pool of blood in a quiet residential street after being attacked and stabbed.
   • I can see me lying in a pool of blood as the last scene in this awful, horrible drama.
   • There they found him lying in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds to his face and body.
   • I also picture the pool of liquid paint that forms in the dipped centre of a water-colour tablet when you apply water as a lake; some call it a puddle but that's a different kind of romance for me!
   • The mould which grows on top of the jam in pots can live only on the little pool of exuded liquid on the surface, not in the jam itself.
   • Differ, who was known to police, was found lying in a pool of blood in the back garden of a flat in Garthamlock, on Thursday.
   • The animal was found lying in a pool of blood on the living room floor.
   • With that, the colonel exhaled one final time, and slumped down on the table, his face resting in a shallow pool of his own blood.
   • Ten agonizing minutes later, she lay in a shallow pool of her own blood.
   • They will leave you lying in a pool of your own blood if you make a wrong move.
   • When Michael opened the door, Raymond shot him and left him lying in a pool of blood.
   • Outside, cows stand in pools of yellowish liquid that has oozed from blocked drains.
   • Constable Elm found Mr. Duncan at about 4: 50 AM lying unconscious in a pool of blood in his garage.
   • Warren's body was found lying in a pool of blood on a staircase by two employees at about 7.30 am.
   • As I gave that final tug of strength my body finally emerged from the hole and there I was, just lying there in a pool of cold sticky blood.
   • He would wake up in the morning, lying in a pool of liquid, with only a vague recollection of his prior whereabouts.
   • By now it was early morning and hearing all the shouting and noise, some neighbours gathered before his apartment and decided to break down the door, only to find him lying in a pool of blood.
   • We can see salt flats and shallow pools of sulphuric acid.
   • Cleaners found him lying in a pool of blood after the attack in which his cash box was stolen.
   • Boiling pools of dark mysterious liquid puff smoke of rancid sulphur fumes.
2. 1.2 A swimming pool.
   游泳池
   I spent all my time lounging around the pool

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   • His short blond hair was practically green from all the time he spend in the pool for swimming practice, and his blue eyes were bloodshot from the chlorine.
   • And then he saw that someone was in the pool, swimming laps.
   • He would try and clear his mind by swimming laps in the pool, but he began swimming with all his anger and resembled nothing more than a shark thrashing about.
   • Olympic-size swimming pools, also called long course pools, measure 50 meters long.
   • The bathhouse was a large building with a main pool used for swimming and many side rooms with hot bathing tubs in them.
   • Guy is in the pool, swimming laps furiously whilst Cassie reads a women's magazine at a wrought iron breakfast table.
   • The center didn't have a pool, so swimming wasn't an option.
   • Many recreation centers and health clubs have beautiful pools, and open-water swimming can take you to lakes, reservoirs and even the ocean.
   • He's always doing things that no pope has ever done before, even if it's just swimming in a pool in his summer residence or going skiing.
   • One of the city's oldest pools, the Yeoville swimming pool, has received a sparkling, multi-toned blue mosaic facelift.
   • He walked into the pool area, it was very elegant, there was a large hot tub, an elegant wading pool and an athletic pool for swimming laps.
   • The pool where the swimming was taking place was an impressive size - but nothing compared to the how impressed I was with the swimmers themselves.
   • Following the parade the pool opens for free swimming.
   • There will be plenty of opportunities for family swimming in the new swimming and training pools.
   • A serious drama should be like a swimmer diving into a pool and swimming to the other side in one smooth, perfect trajectory.
   • She got to her feet, brushed the dirt from her bathing suit and legs, and left the swimming pool for the pool house.
   • Daphne looks away, staring out at Tyler, who's swimming laps in the pool.
   • I wore them, when I did, because they really are better for what I mostly do in a pool, which is swimming laps.
   • Michael and I walked back to our hotel and decided to do some swimming in the pool.
   • Her father, a basketball player, had expected a boy and treated the girl like one: pushing her into the pool to teach her swimming at three, and giving her a crew cut.

   Synonyms

   swimming pool, baths, lido, piscina, plunge pool

   British swimming bath(s)

   North American rare natatorium
3. 1.3 A deep place in a river.
   （河的）深水处；深潭
   we soon reached the pool at the foot of the waterfall

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   • The fish survived by adapting to life in deep pools and slow-moving portions of the Mojave River.
   • The river was quite low, flowing past, speeding up and gurgling over the rocky rapids, then slowing again into deep dark pools.
   • In shady places along both bodies of water the catfish have nothing to do but lay up in the deep pools, eat, and grow and grow and grow.
   • Below the bridge is the dramatic Stainforth Force, where the River Ribble plunges into a deep pool over limestone ledges.
   • As you travel up the glen's throat, a thin and wooded gorge of cliffs that plunge to the deep and silent pools of the Lyon, the hills soon open up to reveal a rich plateau of farmland fringed by soaring mountain-tops.
   • Dropping into one of the deeper pools under a ledge, I found a loricariid catfish, with its suctorial mouth, under a dead log - a favourite hang-out.
   • Sometimes the great, deep pools - so beloved by the crocodiles - seem barely to move and are full of mystery and suspense.
   • Everywhere there are clear jade rivers with deep natural pools, surrounded by sun-warmed granite boulders.
   • This is an excellent stretch of cascading river with pools, rocky banks and ledges.
   • In the fluvial setting the bull trout favors deep pools where it usually sits on or near the bottom.
   • They walked down a stone passage right beside the river pool.
   • This was a calm area of the river, where there was a pool nearly six feet deep surrounded by large, round, gleaming rocks.
   • One of the beauties of the shorter Hebridean systems is the focus on the outflows and sea pools of the rivers.
   • Such rivers have cavernous deep pools fed by turbulent rapids at the head and a shallow tail leading to the next rapid.
   • Then there's the largemouths, some weighing as much as 6 or 7 pounds, holding in the slow, deep pools.
   • By flashlight I followed a trail and then stopped at a deep pool where I knew a big brown trout had to be.
   • I knew there were deeper pools along the river and I was soon exploring different areas, it was soon apparent that the fly rod was going to be pretty useless in these conditions.
   • Police divers recovered the teenager's body from a deep pool in the river.
   • Wordlessly, we turned and took our first swirling steps into the deep water of one of the jungle pools in the Raspaculo river.
   • The prehistoric monster had come from some deep pool below the river.

1(of liquid) form a pool on the ground or another surface.

1. 1.1 (of blood) accumulate in parts of the venous system.
   （血液）在静脉中淤积
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   • Now stand up - you'll get blood pooling if you stay like that.
   • This failure to compensate can occur immediately or be delayed because of blood pooling in the lower extremities.
   • But as he consulted with a Boise neurologist and examined lab results, he realized that King couldn't survive the blood pooling in his skull.
   • Aeromedical physicians found that blood pooled in the lower body at high altitudes and thus was not forced back toward the heart and recirculated to the head.
   • No longer being pumped around her circulatory system, blood has pooled and coagulated in these areas.
   • In a second the G-force shot up into the ten to twelve range, the blood pooled near Captain Alezio's chest, and she lost consciousness.
   • Decrease the uphill distance between the heart and brain by tilting the seat back, and apply counter pressure against the legs and abdomen to retard blood pooling there.
   • This will help prevent blood pooling in the leg and reduce the pressure on the healing scars.
   • Protection against clot formation in the legs can be mechanical to prevent blood pooling in the legs with early getting up after surgery or the use of elastic or pneumatic stockings.
   • This results in blood pooling and the visible sign of varicose veins.
   • Venous ulcers are sometimes called venous stasis ulcers because they were previously attributed to blood pooling in the veins.
   • The cool down period is needed so that your blood doesn't pool in your legs and cause light-headedness.

1A shared supply of vehicles or resources to be drawn on when needed.

共用汽车队。

1. 1.1 A group of people available for work when required or considered as a resource.
   共用人员
   the typing pool

   联合打字组。

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   • Your fellow potential jurors will be chosen at random from the pool available, and then slimmed down to just 12 in court, again at random.
   • Prospective mentees then search the available pool of mentors to see who has the expertise they need.
   • Challenges of racial discrimination in the pool of available jurors must show systematic and unreasonable bias, according to the court.
   • Females are typically more choosy than males when selecting a mate from the pool of available partners.
   • It was only with hindsight we realised that the primary social impact of the birth control pill was to bestow greater sexual freedom on men by virtue of increasing the pool of sexually available women.
   • Again, a large pool of talent is available from among the Government servants throughout the country.
   • Assuming each person only goes out with one other, somewhere there must be a pool of available women.
   • The fact that I think 51 per cent of the workforce available, the workforce pool, within a matter of five years' time, will be women.
   • Constitutional law requires that jury pools must be a fair cross-section of the community and not systematically racially biased.
   • If we increase the pool of available partners, we can then fall in love with any one of them.
   • Smart, educated women aren't willing to date down on the social scale, so the higher they rise, the more they cut down on their available pool of men.
   • With Scotland now well established as a location for inward investment, McWalter maintains there is now a larger pool of talented linguists available.
   • More than 300,000 people gave up their search for jobs and dropped out of the pool of available workers.
   • The clear winner, far ahead of all the others, was the talent pool available in the city.
   • The pool of available lawyers should, as far as possible, be representative of Muslim and other communities.
   • The pool of available people doing opinion writing is still tilted toward men.
   • It has several different means to bring in new contractors to increase the pool of available contractors, but it is not required to do so.
   • We are cognizant that this restricts the available pool of applicants to fill temporary positions, and we are very mindful of the present competitive marketplace.
   • At any given time in our history, West Indies cricket has drawn on the available pool of young, talented and capable males for its sustenance.
   • As the pool of available labour shrank, wages rose; as the population declined so did the demand for food and supplies, and prices followed suit.

   Synonyms

   supply, common supply, reserve, reserves, store, reservoir, stock, stockpile, accumulation, storehouse, hoard, cache, fund, backlog
2. 1.2 A common fund into which all contributors pay and from which financial backing is provided.
   集合基金
   big public investment pools

   大型公共投资基金。

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   • Larger funds generally offer bigger risk pools yet funds with fewer and younger members may be a better option than funds with many older members.
   • Hedge-fund managers are now muscling in on traditional managers of pension funds and other pools of capital.
   • Further, this will provide a pool of funds that can be used for the benefit of contributors to the scheme.
   • Initially the provider will control a pool of funds corresponding to a market-average cost for a condition.
   • The top dogs in the new entrepreneurial City are the hedge funds - loosely regulated pools of capital taking more risk to earn higher returns than traditional fund managers.
   • But these small depositors were contributing to a pool which could be used to fund much larger schemes while maximising returns.
   • The IMF has been aptly compared to a credit union: every member makes a contribution to a pool of funds and can then draw on them when the need arises.
   • Richmond created the pool of funds through reallocations from his office and academic units.
   • Venture capital firms are pools of capital, usually organised as a limited partnership.
   • Even where online brokers are using the same pool of insurance providers, variations emerge.
   • It merges into the whole pool of funds managed by the respondents.
   • Most pools of capital managed by committees are subject to an oversight document or investment policy.
   • Anyone who knows anything about hedge funds is aware that these private investment pools don't come cheaply.
   • Gifts to these funds are mixed into an investment pool, which the foundation or its advisers then manage.
   • In the first year of the new academic plan, 11 proposals from three colleges were funded through the pool managed by the Provost Office.
   • We have developed massive institutions to manage risk - insurance companies, banks, investment firms, fund pools.
   • A ‘fund of funds’ is where a product provider selects funds from a pool of funds on behalf of the investor.
   • Rather few Irish became entrepreneurs; the community did not generate pools of financial capital.
   • The funds are private investment pools for the rich, who understand the risks and can comfortably absorb potential losses, they say.
   • It had been hoped that the Asset Covered Securities Act would have encouraged lenders to securitise pools of mortgage lending and thus drive down the cost of raising funds.

   Synonyms

   fund, reserve, kitty, pot, bank, purse

   jackpot, ante, stakes
3. 1.3 The collective amount of players' stakes in gambling or sweepstakes; a kitty.
   集体赌注；抽头
   dividends are calculated by dividing the net pool by the stakes on the winners

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   • Many winners at the dog tracks wager into trifecta pools, selecting dogs most likely to win, place and show.
   • And, if so, what should the dollar amount for the pool of punitive damages be?
   • There are other reasons managers may find fault with office gambling pools.
   • At the start of the game, each player must pay the initial stake to the pool.
   • Before each deal, each player must pay 1 unit into the pool or kitty.
   • The most popular forms of gambling were raffles, state lotteries, friendly wagers, casino gambling and office pools.
   • Everyone pays a stake to the pool and nine cards are dealt to each player.
   • All those who match all six main numbers share the amount in the Jackpot pool, which depends mainly on total sales.
   • At the beginning, everyone contributes an equal stake to a pool - say 1000 Lire.
   • There are six tournaments in the first five months of 2002 with guaranteed prize pools of $1 million or more!
   • The pre-selected wagers will go into straight and exacta pools only.
   • The name ‘pool’ comes about because each player lays a stake which is pooled, the winning player being the recipient of the pool.
   • When play starts there are four stakes in the pool.
   • You can win very small amounts on the pools, you know.
   • Typically, a small number of cards is dealt, tricks are played, and the pool is divided between the players according to the tricks taken.
   • Bettors in Canada were precluded from wagering into U.S. pools under previous regulations.
   • No one can tell you where, or how, to make the best wagers, or what pools to enter!
   • One bit of evidence Storr gives is the asue, a collective pool that pays off to one of its members via a lottery draw.
   • It also means that the trifecta payoffs at that track are likely to be smaller than average, due to larger numbers of bettors splitting the pools.
   • Consider different kinds of wagers in different pools.
4. 1.4usually the pools
   a small win on the pools

   another term for football pool

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   • It is the first time in 40 years that the Scottish Football League has failed to gain money from the pools promoters.

2mass noun A game played on a small billiard table using two sets of seven coloured and numbered balls together with one black ball and a white cue ball, with the aim of pocketing all one's own balls and then the black.

3A group of contestants who compete against each other in a tournament for the right to advance to the next round.

4An arrangement, illegal in many countries, between competing parties to fix prices or rates and share business in order to eliminate competition.

1(of two or more people or organizations) put (money or other assets) into a common fund.

他们签了一个合同，将盈利集中起来并进行赢利性投资。

1. 1.1 Share (resources or information) for the benefit of all involved.
   共享
   the skills of teachers can be pooled and shared

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   • The idea is that by pooling their scouting resources, the subscribers cut down on expenses and more effectively cover the country.
   • Where they pool their resources and share expenses, it may be easier to conclude that they are cohabiting as husband and wife.
   • If the club just wants to pool resources and share cars and parts, they can do that as well.
   • To fight both piracy and terrorism, the IMB proposes pooling resources among the countries sharing sea-lane boundaries.
   • As pressure mounts on practically every sector, both big and small, the need to pool resources and network ideas was never more important.
   • Some drivers pool their resources to share one or more cars.
   • They pooled their resources together to build this cafe.
   • For example, local chapters have held benefit auctions and pooled their resources for local advertising.
   • Together they'd pooled their resources and bought Chinese solar panels, a car battery, a TV, and a video player.
   • In a partnership, professionals pool their resources and join into a practice together.
   • Operators would pool their resources and share costs in a bid to give a much-needed fillip to broadband in Britain.
   • The essence of insurance is to pool resources and share risk.
   • Somchainuk said that the time to pool resources and establish an information base has come.
   • It is good to see combined programmes such as these being run throughout the world and for police agencies being able to pool resources and information.
   • This will be based in the Auckland region in order to pool the resources and share them fairly amongst the different tertiary providers there.
   • Either they could pool resources and share activist coordinators, or perhaps they could contract with an independent nonprofit to do it for them.
   • It is an excellent idea with the clubs pooling their resources in order to promote golf in the region.
   • In this show, these three stalwarts of the international comedy scene pooled their comic resources with devastating effect with a mix of stand-up, sketches and improvised material.
   • It is understood that two law firms have pooled resources and information to investigate whether ScotRail was aware of problems on the track hours before it collapsed under the weight of the 76-ton train.
   • In its eight years, the original cyber school has expanded and joined with others to pool resources and offer greater support.

   Synonyms

   combine, put together, amalgamate, group, join, unite, lump together, merge

   fuse, conglomerate, agglomerate, coalesce, integrate

   share