cesspool

['ses.pu:l]

n.污水坑, 化粪池,藏污纳垢的地方
=cesspit

n.

污水坑; 粪坑; 污秽场所

cesspool

cesspool['sespu:l]n.1.■污水池，污水渗井；粪坑2.■污秽场所，道德败坏的地方

1. an underground container for the temporary storage of liquid waste and sewage
   污水池，化粪池
   ■(figurative)a disgusting or corrupt place
   (喻)藏垢纳污的场所；污秽之地
   

1. late 17th cent. (denoting a trap under a drain to catch solids): probably an alteration, influenced by pool, of archaic suspiral 'vent, water pipe, settling tank', from Old French souspirail 'air hole', based on Latin sub- 'from below' + spirare 'breathe'
   

cesspool

名词 cesspool:

a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it

同义词：cesspit, sink, sump

cesspool

■cesspool fever

[医] 污水坑热, 伤寒

■If a giant had filtered this cesspool, he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair.

一个巨人如果用筛子去滤这些污泥，便可在他的筛中得到几世纪的财富。

■watertight cesspool

不透水污水坑

■It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the night which has just been torn from its cesspool.

人们仿佛见到一片活生生的长满了刺的怪可怕的荆棘在抽搐、匍匐、跳动，钻向黑处，瞪眼唬人。

■by dint of his persistent will, he is able to overcome the inertia of bureaucracy and turn a mosquito-infested cesspool into a children's playground.

仅管有职员看不过去，心中认为应该要继承渡边的精神，但那也仅止于缅怀而已。

■To hear that great and noble man's name upon your lips is like finding a dew-drop in a cesspool.

从你的嘴里听见那高贵而伟大的人的名字简直就像见到一滴露珠落到了脏水塘里。

■Toilet and cesspool are two different matters, cannot confuse sth with sth else.

厕所与化粪池是两回事，不可混为一谈。

■Mrs.Xuan saw he wasn't going to take her advice, so she grabbed his knife and threw it down the toilet, straight into the cesspool.

宣夫人看到他不听，就抓起他的刀扔到厕所的粪坑里去了。

■BRENT TUFELD: Martin, I think we should have you speak to someone. You're under a hell of a lot of stress. Being locked up in this cesspool really doesn't help.

布伦特塔富尔德：马丁，我认为我们需要让你和别人谈谈。你的压力先然非常大。被关在这个脏地方实在是没一点用。

■Bree: My beef is that from the minute I walked into this office, you have pulled me deeper and deeper into your moral cesspool.

布雷：我的不满是从我走进这个办公室的时候，你拉我到你的道德粪坑。

■Man has turned many of the world's rivers into sewers, and one of its greatest lakes into a cesspool where few fish can survive.

很多河流已经被人类变成了臭水沟，最大的湖泊变成了污水池，只有少量的鱼儿在挣扎。

■We live in a moral cesspool of lies.

我们都生活在谎言当中。

■I've been to every two-bit wizard in this cesspool of virtue and not one of them was willing or able to remove the curse.

我已经问遍了这个满是善良的污水谭，却没有哪个变戏法的家伙愿意或是能够帮我除掉这个诅咒。

■The property drainage system should connect to the civic system and has its own cesspool.

排污:纳入市政排污管网,有化粪池;

■on the whole, he preferred scum to miasma, and he preferred the torrent to the cesspool, and the falls of Niagara to the lake of Montfaucon.

整个地说，他爱泡沫甚于沼气，急流甚于污池，尼亚加拉瀑布甚于隼山湖。

■Being in love blinds you from all crap even if you are in a cesspool while losing it turns you from beauty to beast.

时间这块磨沙镜模糊了过去，人们也许只有活在当下才能拥有一双慧眼。

■It would be the survival of the least fit.What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become？

最高等的人，一旦脱离了人类命运的康庄大道，就会变成动物。

■Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

标准译文是：在这种情况下，我很自然地就被吸引进伦敦这个大污水坑里去，大英帝国所有的游民懒汉也都是汇集到这里来的。

■"As a cesspool filled over a number of years is difficult to clean, similarly, whoever is full of impurity is difficult to make pure.

正如积聚多年的粪坑，这样的有罪之人难以净化。比丘们啊！

■Each year, about 120 million tons of refuse life open stowage, drains, reservoirs become cesspool, garbage dumps.

每年约1.2亿吨的生活垃圾露天堆放，沟渠、水塘成为污水池、垃圾堆放场。

■Every church was a cesspool of corruption, every nunnery the repository for whores of Christ, every orphan skewered on a bayonet (their bodies too small to waste their shot on) a soul saved from heresy.

每座教堂都是污秽的粪坑，每座修女院都是基督的妓女聚集之地，每用刺刀干掉一个孤儿（他们的身体太小了，不值得浪费子弹）都是从邪魔外道手中拯救了一条灵魂。

■The water seal turns dry easily,so that it makes the sewage,even cesspool, integrated with indoor space.Due to o segregation,it is harmful to human health.

水封很容易干涸，使下水管道甚至化粪池与室内空间连为一体，没有任何阻隔，对人体健康产生危害。

■leaching cesspool

污水渗井

■The cesspool no longer retains anything of its primitive ferocity.The rain, which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it.

污沟已没有以往的狞恶相，从前雨水污染阴沟，现在冲洗一净。

■Internet is a Cesspool?

网路是一个大粪坑?

■a cesspool of iniquity

罪恶的渊薮

■cesspool; cesspit

臭水坑

■That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all that he traversed for me, for thee, Cosette!

这个街垒，这条阴沟，这个火坑，这些污水沟，他都经历过了，为了我，为了你，珂赛特！

■This house was something that the matrons of Atlanta whispered about furtively and ministers preached against in guarded terms as a cesspool of iniquity, a hissing and a reproach.

这家妓院已成为亚特兰大的已婚妇女们暗地里、窍窍私语的话题，说教的牧师们用谨慎的措词称之为邪恶的污秽场所，一个为人们所蔑视和谴责的地方。

■Finally, he is using the stature of his office to lead a dialogue on cleaning up the cesspool of amateur basketball in America.

这里应该是说他用自己在联盟办公室的地位，带头挑起了对美国业余篮球糟糕方面的探讨。

■In a speech to magazine executives Wednesday he called the internet "a cesspool", AdAge reported.

那一个透过网路48小时就赚了五千万的网页设计的网页设计人又能教你些什麽？

■That cesspool is an offence to the neighbourhood.

那个污水坑是令附近邻居气恼的东西。

■Enzymes have also become popular cesspool and septic tank cleaners, and they are commonly used to open clogged drains.

酶还普遍用做污水坑和带菌容器的清洁剂，并且能应用于疏通阻塞的管道。

■Disinfection of Septic Tank and Cesspool Wastewater with Peracetic Acid

采用过乙酸对化粪池及粪坑污水进行消毒

■Maggie: It never does. That city is a cesspool.

麦琪：永远不是，它是一个臭水池。