Water supply and drainage network
排水管───a drain;给水───water supply
Irrigating qat is also a drain on water reserves that are anyway drying up fast.───灌溉咔特也耗费备用水,还总会很快把水用光。
a drain on your time to over care for things.───过度关心事情会浪费你的时间。
Interns aren't supposed to be a drain on time, energy or resources.───因为实习生不应该成为雇主在时间、精力或者资源上的负担。
For Ford, its failed attempt to build a European-led range of premier marques has been a drain of both cash and management time.───福特企图建立欧洲高级车型的失败耗尽了它的资金和管理层精力。
We have said it would all be sudden as the dark whirlwind goes down the drain, just as you see water swirl down a drain.───我们曾说过一旦黑暗势力白白浪费良机,这就会很突然的发生,就像水被漩涡吸走那样迅猛。
Chiew Ah Chan said she was cleaning her house on Wednesday when she saw the toad trying to hop out of a drain.───陈女士说,她在居所打扫卫生时看见一只癞蛤蟆正试图从下水道里跳出来。
Surely it would be a drain on Party resources that it can ill afford.
But what a drain on parents.
The mortgage is a drain on our financial resources.
The parish is a drain on resources, no doubt about it.
It is a drain on their resources.