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- pocket [ 'pɑkɪt] [ 'pɔkɪt]
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- 1. noun 口袋；钱袋；衣袋
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2.
noun
[England]
一袋（尤指用来称量物体的一种重量单位）
- 3. noun 小袋
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4.
noun
贮器；容器
- 5. noun （孤立的）小块地区；凹地
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6.
noun
被挤轧的不利情况；孤立地区
- 7. noun 钱；财力
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8.
noun
[aeronautics]
【同义词】air pocket
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9.
noun
[American English]
[baseball]
传球处；袋形区
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10.
noun
[billiard]
（球台四角的）球囊
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11.
noun
[bowling]
两针之间的空间
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12.
noun
[geology]
矿穴
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13.
noun
[geology]
小矿藏；矿囊
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14.
noun
[horse racing]
被对方困住而不得进展的地方
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15.
noun
[zoology]
（袋鼠等动物的）囊，袋
- 16. adjective 可放在衣袋内的
- 17. adjective 小型的；袖珍的
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18.
adjective
不普遍的；压缩的；紧凑的
- pocket resistance
- 耐压缩的
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19.
vt.
把…装入袋内
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20.
vt.
打进球袋
- 21. vt. 包藏；封入
- 22. vt. 侵吞、盗用（款项等）
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23.
vt.
忍受；抑制
- 24. vt. 深藏；压抑
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25.
vt.
[American English]
[politics]
阻挠；搁置（议案等）使不通过
Collins English-English Dictionary
- pocket ['pɑkɪt]
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1.
n
a small bag or pouch in a garment for carrying small articles, money, etc
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2.
n
any bag or pouch or anything resembling this
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3.
n
a cavity or hollow in the earth, etc, such as one containing gold or other ore
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4.
n
the ore in such a place
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5.
n
a small enclosed or isolated area
- a pocket of resistance
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6.
n
[billiards]
[snooker]
any of the six holes with pouches or nets let into the corners and sides of a billiard table
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7.
n
a position in a race in which a competitor is hemmed in
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8.
n
[Australian rules football]
a player in one of two side positions at the ends of the ground
- back pocket
- forward pocket
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9.
n
[South African]
a bag or sack of vegetables or fruit
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10.
n
[modifier]
suitable for fitting in a pocket; small
- a pocket edition
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11.
vt.
[tr]
to put into one's pocket
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12.
vt.
to take surreptitiously or unlawfully; steal
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13.
vt.
[usually passive]
to enclose or confine in or as if in a pocket
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14.
vt.
to receive (an insult, injury, etc) without retaliating
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15.
vt.
to conceal or keep back (feelings)
- he pocketed his pride and accepted help
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16.
vt.
[billiards]
[snooker]
to drive (a ball) into a pocket
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17.
vt.
[US]
(esp of the President) to retain (a bill) without acting on it in order to prevent it from becoming law - See also pocket veto
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18.
vt.
to hem in (an opponent), as in racing
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19.
vt.
[Etymology]
C15: from Anglo-Norman poket a little bag, from poque bag, from Middle Dutch poke
poke 2, bag; related to French poche pocket
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1.
n
a small bag or pouch in a garment for carrying small articles, money, etc
Examples
- a pocket edition
- 袖珍版 → edition
- to fish a coin from one's pocket
- 从口袋中掏出硬币 → fish
- the flap of a pocket
- 口袋盖 → flap
- to take a comb from the pocket
- 从口袋拿出一把梳子 → from
- a pocket of poverty
- 小块贫瘠地区 → pocket
- a drain on one's pocket
- 某人钱财的消耗 → pocket
- pocket resistance
- 耐压缩的 → pocket
- pocket one's pride
- 忍辱；抑制自尊心 → pocket
- a vest-pocket dictionary
- 一本袖珍词典 → vest-pocket
- a vest-pocket park
- 市内小公园 → vest-pocket
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