1. go to pot : 破产;
2. keep the pot boiling : 谋生, 维持生活, 使保持活泼;
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名词
In the Cafeteria-(在自助餐厅里)
1. 锅
A pot is a deep round container used for cooking stews, soups, and other food.
2. 茶壶;咖啡壶
You can use pot to refer to a teapot or coffee pot.
3. (装果酱、油漆等的)罐,桶
A pot is a cylindrical container for jam, paint, or some other thick liquid.
4. 同 flowerpot
A pot is the same as a flowerpot .
5. 把…栽入盆中
If you pot a young plant, or part of a plant, you put it into a container filled with soil, so it can grow there.
6. 大麻
Pot is sometimes used to refer to the drugs cannabis and marijuana.
7. 一大笔;很多;大量
If you have pots of money, you have a lot of it.
8. (一盘纸牌游戏中各玩家所下的)赌注总额,全部赌注
In a card game, the pot is the money from all the players which the winner of the game will take as a prize.
9. 公共基金
You can refer to a fund consisting of money from several people as the pot .
10. 大肚子;罗汉肚
Someone who has a pot has a round, fat stomach which sticks out, either because they eat or drink too much, or because they have had very little to eat for some time.
11. (幼儿用的)便壶
A pot is a deep bowl which a small child uses instead of a toilet.
12. (斯诺克及台球中)击(球)入袋
In the games of snooker and billiards, if you pot a ball, you succeed in hitting it into one of the pockets.
13. see also: potted;chamber pot;chimney pot;coffee pot;lobster pot;melting pot;plant pot
14. (因无人照料或经营)垮掉,没落,衰落;荒废
If something goes to pot, it loses all its good qualities because nobody looks after it or works at it.
15. 碰运气;撞大运
If you take pot luck, you decide to do something even though you do not know what you will get as a result.
1. metal or earthenware cooking vessel that is usually round and deep
often has a handle and lid
2. street names for marijuana
Synonym: grassgreen goddessdopeweedgagesesssenssmokeskunklocoweedMary Jane
3. a container in which plants are cultivated
Synonym: flowerpot
4. a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal
used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets
Synonym: potentiometer
5. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
Synonym: toiletcancommodecrapperpottystoolthrone
6. slang for a paunch
Synonym: potbellybay windowcorporationtummy
7. the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker)
8. the quantity contained in a pot
Synonym: potful
9. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
e.g. a batch of letters
a deal of trouble
a lot of money
he made a mint on the stock market
see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
it must have cost plenty
a slew of journalists
a wad of money
Synonym: batchdealflockgood dealgreat dealhatfulheaplotmassmessmicklemintmountainmucklepasselpeckpileplentyquite a littleraftsightslewspatestacktidy sumwad