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样，1987年股市崩盘和十年后长期资本管理公司??一个对冲基金陨落时他就在附近。
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. 再转过来，你看到那个凹了吧，躺进去放上水，你就可以洗一个泡泡浴了。
plug the other end of the connection cable into the plughole in the front of the charger; 将连接线的另一端插入充电器的头部插孔中；
to go down the plughole [inf] 付诸东流
