"Drain" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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挤出 jǐ chū to squeeze out / to extrude / to drain / to find the time / to burst out
排水 pái shuǐ to drain
宣泄 xuān xiè to drain (by leading off water) / to unburden oneself / to divulge / to leak a secret
耗尽 hào jìn to exhaust / to use up / to deplete / to drain
排泄 pái xiè to drain (factory waste etc) / to excrete (urine, sweat etc)
外流 wài liú outflow / to flow out / to drain
引流 yǐn liú to drain / (medicine) drainage
地漏 dì lòu drain / underground drainpipe / floor gutter / 25th of 2nd lunar month
排 pái a row / a line / to set in order / to arrange / to line up / to eliminate / to drain / to push open / platoon / raft / classifier for lines, rows etc
淋 lìn to filter / to strain / to drain / gonorrhea / (TCM) strangury
渠 qú big / stream or canal / drain / ditch / CL:條|条[tiao2] / him (dialect) / outer rim of a carriage wheel (old)
浍 kuài drain / stream
滗 bì to drain / to strain / to decant
流干 liú gān to drain / to run dry
退水 tuì shuǐ to divert water / to drain
沥干 lì gān to drain
废水 fèi shuǐ waste water / drain water / effluent
排污 pái wū to drain sewage
前功尽弃 qián gōng jìn qì to waste all one's previous efforts (idiom) / all that has been achieved goes down the drain
排空 pái kōng to drain out / to empty / to discharge (waste gas) into the air / to soar up into the sky
人才流失 rén cái liú shī brain drain / outflow of talent
排涝 pái lào to drain flooded fields
激浊扬清 jī zhuó yáng qīng lit. drain away filth and bring in fresh water (idiom) / fig. dispel evil and usher in good / eliminate vice and exalt virtue
排 pǎi a row / a line / to set in order / to arrange / to line up / to eliminate / to drain / to push open / platoon / raft / classifier for lines, rows etc
澌 sī drain dry / to exhaust
搋 chuāi to knead / to rub / to clear a drain with a pump / to conceal sth in one's bosom / to carry sth under one's coat
竭泽而渔 jié zé ér yú lit. to drain the pond to get at the fish (idiom) / fig. to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
唾面自干 tuò miàn zì gān to be spat on in the face and let it dry by itself, not wiping it off (idiom) / to turn the other cheek / to drain the cup of humiliation
扬清激浊 yáng qīng jī zhuó lit. drain away filth and bring in fresh water (idiom) / fig. dispel evil and usher in good / eliminate vice and exalt virtue
移山倒海 yí shān dǎo hǎi lit. to move mountains and drain seas / to transform nature
才外流 cái wài liú brain drain
釂 jiào drain a goblet
甽 quǎn drain between fields, irrigation
人才外流 rén cái wài liú brain drain
以邻为壑 yǐ lín wéi hè to use one's neighbor as a drain / to shift one's problems onto others (idiom)
排洪 pái hóng to drain flood-water
一饮而尽 yī yǐn ér jìn to drain the cup in one gulp (idiom)
主排水沟  carrier drain / main drain
国内人才流失 guó nèi rén cái liú shī internal brain drain
支排水沟  lateral drain / field drain
田间排水沟  lateral drain / field drain
雨水管道 yǔ shuǐ guǎn dào storm water drain / storm drain
雨水集水井 yǔ shuǐ jí shuǐ jǐng storm drain catch basin
排走 pái zǒu to drain away / to vent out
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