n.[C]

1. 水塘，水池
2. 小水坑，潭；淵
   After the heavy rain there were pools on the road.

   大雨過後路上有一些小水坑。

3. （液體等的）一灘，一片[（+of）]
   Fatally shot, he lay in a pool of blood.

   他遭致命槍擊，躺在血泊之中。

4. 游泳池
5. （河流的）深潭

n.

1. 共同資金；共用物[C]
   To save gas, many people joined the car pool.

   為節省汽油，許多人參加車輛共乘。

2. 總賭款，全部賭注[C]
3. 撞球[U]
4. 企業聯合，合資經營[C]

vt.

1. （為共同目的）合出（資金，物資，想法等）；合辦，聯營
   If we pool our ideas, we may be able to produce a really good plan.

   如果我們集思廣益，我們也許能制訂一個真正完善的計畫。

   We pooled our savings and bought a desk-top computer.

   我們用積蓄合資買了一臺桌上型電腦。

vi.

1. 合資經營；聯營

n.

1. a small area of still water, typically one formed naturally.
   ▸a deep place in a river.
   ▸a swimming pool.
2. a small, shallow patch of liquid lying on a surface.

v.

1. form a pool.
2. (of blood) accumulate in parts of the venous system.

n.

1. a shared supply of vehicles, people, or resources to be drawn on when needed.
   ▸a common fund into which all contributors pay and from which financial backing is provided.
   ▸the collective amount of players' stakes in gambling or sweepstakes.
   ▸ (the pools or football pools) a form of gambling on the results of football matches, the winners receiving large sums accumulated from entry money.
2. an arrangement between competing parties to fix prices and share business in order to eliminate competition.
3. a group of contestants who compete against each other in a tournament for the right to advance to the next round.
4. a game played on a billiard table using two sets of seven balls together with one black ball and a white cue ball.

v.

1. put (money or other assets) into a common fund.
   ▸share for the benefit of all.
2. Austral. informal implicate or inform on.

[名]

1. 游泳池；游泳場。