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同 swimming pool
A pool is the same as a swimming pool .
例句
...a heated indoor pool...
室內溫水泳池
During winter, many people swim and the pool is crowded.
冬季來游泳的人很多，泳池人滿為患。
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池塘；水池；水洼
A pool is a fairly small area of still water.
例句
The pool had dried up and was full of bracken and reeds.
水塘已經干涸，里面都是歐洲蕨和蘆葦。
...beautiful gardens filled with pools, fountains and rare birds.
處處可見水池、噴泉和珍稀鳥類的美麗花園
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（液體的）一攤；（光的）一片
A pool of liquid or light is a small area of it on the ground or on a surface.
例句
She was found lying in a pool of blood...
她被發現躺在一片血泊中。
It was raining quietly and steadily and there were little pools of water on the gravel drive...
雨一直靜靜地下著，沙礫車道上積起了一攤攤水。
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備用數量；可用數目
A pool of people, money, or things is a quantity or number of them that is available for an organization or group to use.
例句
The available pool of healthy manpower was not as large as military officials had expected...
可用的健壯人力沒有軍官預計的那么多。
The new proposal would create a reserve pool of cash.
這項新的提議將建立一個現金儲備基金。
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共用，聚攏（資金、知識、設備等）
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.
例句
We pooled ideas and information...
我們集思廣益，共享信息。
Philip and I pooled our savings to start up my business.
我和菲利普把積蓄湊到一起開辦了我的公司。
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落袋臺球戲
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.
例句
We played pool together and were good mates...
我們一起打過臺球，是好哥們兒。
The Seaman was a bar for pool players and hard drinkers...
“水手”是供臺球玩家和酒徒消遣的酒吧。
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（下注猜足球比賽結果的）賭球
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.
例句
The odds of winning the pools are about one in 20 million.
賭球獲勝的幾率大約是二千萬分之一。