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单词 seep
释义
seep
verb[I+ adv/prep]
uk
/siːp/us
/siːp/
tomoveorspreadslowlyout of aholeor through something:
渗出；渗漏
Pesticides are seepingout offarmlandandintothewatersupply.杀虫剂正从农田中渗出，进入供水系统。
figurativeGiven theintensesecrecyof thearmsbusiness,informationonly seepsoutincompanyliterature.由于军火贸易极度保密，只能从公司的宣传资料中获得点滴信息。
Synonym
ooze
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Movement of liquids
  • backsplash
  • be dripping withsomethingidiom
  • bleed
  • decant
  • drainage
  • drip
  • eddy
  • leakage
  • ripple
  • run a bathphrase
  • runsomeone/somethingover
  • runnel
  • seepage
  • slosh
  • spit
  • swirl
  • topsomethingup
  • trickle
  • tub
  • washsomethingaway
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seepage
(Definition ofseepfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

seep| American Dictionary

seep
verb[Ialways+ adv/prep]
us
/sip/
(ofliquids) toflowslowlythrough something:
Thefloodwaterseeped into thebasement.

seepage

noun[U]us
/ˈsi·pɪdʒ/
(Definition ofseepfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofseep

seep
Some prominent labor leaders were given material incentives to support the state machinery, and a general corruption of values seeped into the movement.
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But the flavour of empire inevitably seeps through to both sides of the colonial divide.
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This road became the main avenue through which state power seeped into the city space to reshape it.
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However, a change is seeping in with technological applications.
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Even so, there were limits to control and opposition seeped through the few cracks in this monolith.
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The efflorescence is just a surface feature formed by evaporation of the water seeping out from the rock pores by capillarity.
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During periods of high rainfall, the amount of water staying on the surface may be more than the amount that seeps into the ground.
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Faced with such difficulties in explaining change, older explanatory frameworks have seeped into the vacuum left by the new focus on culture.
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And the implications of these imperatives of the new corporate-administrative order wouldseepwell beyond the targeted corporations themselves.
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However, it has barely seeped into the collective consciousness of even the best educated youth - ask anyone faced with first-year university intakes for geology modules.
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In all these ways, dollarisation is seeping inexorably from the export sector into the rest of the economy.
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But this extraordinary vernacular somehow seeps into the mundane, becoming a type of "daily usage" as well.
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In the limit, this suggests that all causation should "seepdown" to the level of microphysics.
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This ambivalence seeped into the park administration's consciousness.
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A kind of naturalism is seeping though the formalistic writing, but the tug of older, more rigid conventions is still very much to be felt.
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