siphon off

基本解释

Volunteers without skills necessary in disasterrelief can do more harm than good, and siphon off critical logistics andtranslation services.
沒有救災必需技能的志願者們的工作可能會弊大於利，竝且會影響重要的物流和繙譯服務。
British Petroleum built Northstar Island in the Beaufort Sea six miles north of the Alaskan coast to siphon off the Northstar Oil Pool, which resides about 12, 500 feet below the seabed.
英國石油公司建造了北極星島，北極星位於阿拉斯加以北6英裡的波弗特海上。
Worse, state employees now feel emboldened to siphon off resources even without sustaining social stability.
更糟糕的是，公務員有恃無恐的吸取資源甚至不考慮維持社會穩定。

While there is demand for more baseball, team owners siphon off supply to maximize profit.
FORBES: Play More Ball!
That makes it really, really easy to siphon off customers from Big Marijuana corporations.
FORBES: Free Market Marijuana
Conveniently for Mr Putin, two fringe leftist candidates also siphon off some Communist support.
ECONOMIST: A Russian coronation