siphon

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si·phon1 (also syphon British English) /ˈsaɪfən/ noun [countableC]

1. TDa bent tube used for getting liquid out of a container, used by holding one end of the tube at a lower level than the end in the container 虹吸管

2. (also soda siphon)DFD a type of bottle for holding soda water, which is forced out of the bottle using gas pressure 〔压杆式〕苏打水瓶

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siphon2 (also syphon British English) verb [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]

1 (also siphon something ↔ off/out)REMOVE to remove liquid from a container by using a siphon 用虹吸管吸出

It took him only a few minutes to siphon off the petrol and drive away.

他只用了几分钟就用虹吸管吸出汽油，开车走了。

siphon something out of/from something

Crews began siphoning oil from the leaking boat.

船员开始用虹吸管从漏水的船上把油抽走。

2 (also siphon something ↔ off)BFSTEAL to dishonestly take money from a business, account etc to use it for a purpose for which it was not intended 私自抽调〔钱款〕，挪用

Emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use.

紧急救济款被外交部官员挪作私用了。

siphon something from something

I found she had siphoned thousands of dollars from our bank account.

我发现她偷偷地从我们的银行账户里转移走了数千美元。

Examples from the Corpus

siphon• Boris Fyodorov survived the attack and returned to accuse senior Kremlin aides of siphoning cash out of the fund.• Jesse Jackson would siphon enough black votes to prevent Clinton from carrying any of the industrial midwestern states.• So funds will have to be siphoned from other areas of the Agriculture Department.• Vigilance is certainly required that funding allocated for the public good should not be siphoned off into private firms.• These include: Personnel: Salary differentials 20-30 percent over comparable civilian work tend to siphon off the better qualified.• Tanker trucks stood by the Charlestown Breachway Monday to siphon off the water surface any oil trapped by the booms.• Officials confirm that Kellys Slough has at times siphoned off up to half the flow of the Turtle River.• The remaining fragments are allowed to settle to the bottom and then siphoned out.

siphon something out of/from something• Boris Fyodorov survived the attack and returned to accuse senior Kremlin aides of siphoning cash out of the fund.

From Longman Business Dictionary