cistern是什么意思

音标:英 ['sɪstən]美 [ˈsɪstən]

贮水器, 水塘, 水箱[化] 槽车

a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet
an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater

cistern的用法和例句：

1. The police found the children drowned in a locked cistern.

警方在上锁的水池中发现了溺死的孩子们

2. This was a planned community with its own solar grid, cisterns, ecobased sewage filtration.

这是个规划社区 拥有太阳能独立电网 蓄水池 生态性污水过滤系统

3. Alice later says she believed she was tucking the children into their beds as she sealed them into the cistern.

爱丽丝随后说 她以为她是在哄孩子们 但其实是把他们锁进了水池里

4. This is the cistern where the water was collected, piped in from a spring that was 500 yards outside the walls.

这就是当时他们蓄水的水池 有管道将外面500码处的泉水运输于此

5. A clever system of pipes drained rainwater from these rooftops into the cistern built under this square.

巧妙的管道系统将屋顶上的雨水 引入广场地下的蓄水池

6. They stored the blood in a lead cistern and topped this up every day with red ochre and water.

血液被贮存在一个铅槽中 每天用赭石辅以清水进行粹取