词汇精选：leak的用法和辨析

一、详细释义：

n.

漏洞，裂缝

例句：

A whole tankful of gas dropped away because of the tiny leak.

由于这个小小的漏洞，整整一油箱的汽油都漏光了。

例句：

I smell gas , there must be a leak somewhere.

我闻到了煤气味，一定是什么地方漏气了。

泄漏

例句：

The leak of information was officially inspired.

这一情报的泄漏是官方授意的。

例句：

More serious leaks, possibly involving national security, are likely to be investigated by the police.

可能涉及国家安全的更严重泄密会受到警方的调查。

【俚】撒尿

例句：

I stood there taking a leak.

我站在那儿撒尿。

v.

（使）渗漏 [I,T]

例句：

Our ship is leaking.

我们的船漏了。

例句：

The water is leaking in through the cracks.

水正从裂缝中渗进来。

泄露 [I,T]

例句：

Mr. Ashton accused police of leaking information to the press.

艾什顿先生指控警察向媒体泄露了消息。

例句：

We don't know how the transcript leaked.

我们不知道抄本是怎样泄露的。

二、词义辨析：

leak,drip

这两个动词含“滴，漏”之意。leak侧重液体或气体等从容器漏出，或泄漏了消息。drip侧重以点滴形式下落，也指漏出或溢出。

三、相关短语：

leak out

透露,泄漏出

take a leak

撒尿

四、参考例句：

The leak of information was officially inspired.

这一情报的泄漏是官方授意的。

Can you smell a gas leak?

你能闻到煤气漏气吗？

The leak of information was officially inspired.

这一情报的泄漏是官方授意的。

Plug a leak in the barrel.

用塞子堵住大桶的漏洞。

Since heat leak is always present, vaporization takes place continuously.

由于热泄露总是存在，蒸发不断地发生。

A small leak will sink a great ship.

小漏不补沉大船。

A hydrogen leak forced NASA to ground the space shuttle.

氢气泄漏迫使美国国家航空航天局停止了航天飞机的发射。

The yacht has sprung a leak in the hull.

帆船的船体上出现了一条裂缝。

A great leak was filling the ship with water.

海水正从一个很大的漏洞往船里灌。

I didn't leak the story to the newspapers.

我没有将事情透漏给报纸。