n.塞孔

He was, as he sheepishly puts it, "in the vicinity" when stockmarkets tumbled in 1987 and Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM), a hedge fund, disappeared down the plughole a decade later. 就像他局促不安地指出的那樣，1987年股市崩盤(pán)和十年后長(zhǎng)期資本管理公司??一個(gè)對(duì)沖基金隕落時(shí)他就在附近。

Then, after a few fruitless minutes searching for the plughole, you discover that to drain the water away, the entire devicetips rotates around until its disk is tipping gently forwards. 再轉(zhuǎn)過(guò)來(lái)，你看到那個(gè)凹了吧，躺進(jìn)去放上水，你就可以洗一個(gè)泡泡浴了。

plug the other end of the connection cable into the plughole in the front of the charger; 將連接線的另一端插入充電器的頭部插孔中；

to go down the plughole [inf] 付諸東流