leak

英 [liːk] 美[lik]

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复数: leaks;第三人称单数: leaks;过去式: leaked;过去分词: leaked;现在分词: leaking;

1. (立刻就)漏了.

leak 泄漏，渗透

来自PIE*leg,滴，滴下，词源同leach,lack,lake.引申词义泄漏。

leak: leak: [15] The ultimate source of leak is probably a prehistoric Germanic *lek-, which denoted ‘deficiency’ (a variant *lak- gave English lack). It is not clear how this reached English; it could have been via Old Norse leka, or through Middle Dutch lēken.
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leak (v.): "to let water in or out" [Johnson], late 14c., from Middle Dutch leken "to drip, to leak," or from Old Norse leka, both of them related to Old English leccan "to moisten" (which did not survive into Middle English), all from Proto-Germanic *lek- "deficiency" (cognates: Old High German lecchen "to become dry," German lechzen "to be parched with thirst"), from PIE root *leg- "to dribble, trickle." The figurative meaning "come to be known in spite of efforts at concealment" dates from at least 1832; transitive sense first recorded 1859. Related: Leaked; leaking.
leak (n.): late 15c., from leak (v.) or Old Norse cognate leki. Sense of "revelation of secret information" is from 1950. Meaning "act of urination" is attested from 1934 ("Tropic of Cancer"); but the verb meaning "to piss" is from 1590s: "Why, you will allow vs ne're a Iourden, and then we leake in your Chimney." ["I Hen. IV," II.i.22]

2. A hydrogen leak forced NASA to ground the space shuttle.: 氢气泄漏迫使美国国家航空航天局停止了航天飞机的发射。

3. In May engineers found a leak in a hydrogen fuel line.: 5月份工程师们在一条氢燃料管线上发现一条裂隙。

4. The blood vessels may leak fluid, which distorts vision.: 血管可能会渗漏，造成视力模糊。