She bought a new drainer for the kitchen.

她为厨房买了一个新的滤水器。

The drainer is full of freshly washed dishes.

滤水器里满是刚洗好的碗碟。

Use a drainer to remove excess water from the pasta.

用滤水器把意大利面的多余水分去掉。

Place the vegetables in the drainer after washing them.

洗完蔬菜后，把它们放在滤水器里。

After boiling the potatoes, put them in the drainer to cool.

煮完土豆后，把它们放在滤水器里冷却。

The drainer was too much trouble to wash.

碗器具洗起来太费劲了。

I knew a neat person once who threw away a perfectly good dish drainer because it had mold on it .

我认为一个爱整洁的人，把一个好端端的碗器具扔掉就因为上面长了霉。

It can be an energy drainer and canny decorators avoid using too much lime and olive greens because of their association to sickliness and envy.

有的绿色可以让人失去气力，而精明的室内设计师不会使用太多的青柠色和橄榄绿，因为它们会令人联想到疾病和妒忌。

Instead of interpreting stress as an energy drainer, they viewed it as a potential performance aid -- a change that may or may not have occurred without this external assistance.

他们没有把压力当做榨干精力的罪魁祸首，他们将其看做一个潜在的救助手段——是在没有外部的推动下可能或者不可能发的一种改变。