If you drain something, youremovetheliquidfrom it, usually bypouringit away orallowingit toflowaway, and if something drains,liquidflowsaway or out of it:
（使）排出，（使）排放，放干（液体）
Drain thepastathoroughly.把意大利面条中的水完全沥干。
We drained thepondandfilledit withfreshwater.我们把池塘中的水放干后重新注入清水。
Drain(off)anyliquidthat isleftin therice.把大米彻底沥干。
Don'tbotherdryingthepans- justleavethem to drain.不用专门擦干平底锅——让它自己干就行了。
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If you drain aglassorcup, youdrinkall theliquidin it.
When the marshes were drained the new farmers chose to live on the embankments beside the canals and rivers.
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She also took the view that it was not necessary to have individual access to water and drains.
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At much expense the farmers have drained these soils.
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The pulmonary veins appeared to be draining normally.
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The issues here are whether the land has laser grading, surface drains, and re-use system.
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Enhancing the value of farmland by improving farm buildings or draining pasture was one incentive to keep or find tenants in hard years.
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In the south this could be because the wet-season monsoon waters had not yet drained away.
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The pulmonary venous connections appeared totally anomalous and were thought to be draining beneath the diaphragm.
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Isolated superior vena cava draining into the left atrium diagnosed by radionucleide angiography.
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Venous blood is gravity drained into the reservoir bag and pumped to the heat exchanger/hollow fibre oxygenator structure.
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Water-control features included aqueducts, drains, walled channels, dams, and a bridge.
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Such work is of ten draining yet immensely rewarding f or the patient and therapist alike.
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In short drains or under bridges they may be sometimes caught in hundreds.
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There is something brute about this conclusion which threatens to trivialise one's subject matter and seems capable of draining its meaningfulness at a single stroke.
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Each sample was rinsed into a large container, the water was drained and all remaining material was preserved in 95% ethanol for subsequent sorting.
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constant drain
They represented a constant drain on the national treasury's financial resources.
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drain cleaner
Eventually fell into a coma after being injected with drain cleaner, but woke up several months later.
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drain hole
He wakes them up by pulling the plug out of adrainholein the boat.
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