n.[C]

1. 水塘，水池
2. 小水坑，潭；渊
   After the heavy rain there were pools on the road.

   大雨过后路上有一些小水坑。

3. （液体等的）一滩，一片[（+of）]
   Fatally shot, he lay in a pool of blood.

   他遭致命枪击，躺在血泊之中。

4. 游泳池
5. （河流的）深潭

n.

1. 共同资金；共用物[C]
   To save gas, many people joined the car pool.

   为节省汽油，许多人参加车辆共乘。

2. 总赌款，全部赌注[C]
3. 撞球[U]
4. 企业联合，合资经营[C]

vt.

1. （为共同目的）合出（资金，物资，想法等）；合办，联营
   If we pool our ideas, we may be able to produce a really good plan.

   如果我们集思广益，我们也许能制订一个真正完善的计划。

   We pooled our savings and bought a desk-top computer.

   我们用积蓄合资买了一架台式电脑。

vi.

1. 合资经营；联营

n.

1. a small area of still water, typically one formed naturally.
   ▸a deep place in a river.
   ▸a swimming pool.
2. a small, shallow patch of liquid lying on a surface.

v.

1. form a pool.
2. (of blood) accumulate in parts of the venous system.

n.

1. a shared supply of vehicles, people, or resources to be drawn on when needed.
   ▸a common fund into which all contributors pay and from which financial backing is provided.
   ▸the collective amount of players' stakes in gambling or sweepstakes.
   ▸ (the pools or football pools) a form of gambling on the results of football matches, the winners receiving large sums accumulated from entry money.
2. an arrangement between competing parties to fix prices and share business in order to eliminate competition.
3. a group of contestants who compete against each other in a tournament for the right to advance to the next round.
4. a game played on a billiard table using two sets of seven balls together with one black ball and a white cue ball.

v.

1. put (money or other assets) into a common fund.
   ▸share for the benefit of all.
2. Austral. informal implicate or inform on.