Swallow
['swɒləʊ] or ['swɑlo]
解释:
(noun.) the act of swallowing; 'one swallow of the liquid was enough'; 'he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips'.
(noun.) small long-winged songbird noted for swift graceful flight and the regularity of its migrations.
(noun.) a small amount of liquid food; 'a sup of ale'.
(verb.) believe or accept without questioning or challenge; 'Am I supposed to swallow that story?'.
(verb.) keep from expressing; 'I swallowed my anger and kept quiet'.
(verb.) take back what one has said; 'He swallowed his words'.
(verb.) utter indistinctly; 'She swallowed the last words of her speech'.
(verb.) engulf and destroy; 'The Nazis swallowed the Baltic countries'.
(verb.) pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking; 'Swallow the raw fish--it won't kill you!'.
尤金伲亚整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They have long, pointed wings, and are noted for the swiftness and gracefulness of their flight.
(n.) Any one of numerous species of swifts which resemble the true swallows in form and habits, as the common American chimney swallow, or swift.
(n.) The aperture in a block through which the rope reeves.
(v. t.) To take into the stomach; to receive through the gullet, or esophagus, into the stomach; as, to swallow food or drink.
(v. t.) To draw into an abyss or gulf; to ingulf; to absorb -- usually followed by up.
(v. t.) To receive or embrace, as opinions or belief, without examination or scruple; to receive implicitly.
(v. t.) To engross; to appropriate; -- usually with up.
(v. t.) To occupy; to take up; to employ.
(v. t.) To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
(v. t.) To retract; to recant; as, to swallow one's opinions.
(v. t.) To put up with; to bear patiently or without retaliation; as, to swallow an affront or insult.
(v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow.
(n.) The act of swallowing.
(n.) The gullet, or esophagus; the throat.
(n.) Taste; relish; inclination; liking.
(n.) Capacity for swallowing; voracity.
(n.) As much as is, or can be, swallowed at once; as, a swallow of water.
(n.) That which ingulfs; a whirlpool.
整理:塔尼娅
同义词及近义词:
v. a. [1]. Gulp, GOBBLE, BOLT, take into the stomach, take down, get down.[2]. Absorb, engulf, destroy, devour, swallow up.[3]. Believe (without scruple), receive implicitly.[4]. Brook, stomach, pocket, endure, bear, put up with.[5]. Renounce, retract, recant, take back.[6]. Consume, exhaust, waste, use up.
n. [1]. Throat, gullet, œsophagus.[2]. Voracity, gluttonous appetite.
录入:斯科特
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Absorb, gorge, engross, devour, appropriate, exhaust, consume, imbibe, engulf,brook
ANT:Vomit, disgorge, eructate, discharge, economize, save, eschew, repudiate
编辑:罗赞娜
解释:
n. a migratory bird with long wings which seizes its insect food on the wing: a genus (Hirundo) and family (Hirundinid) of passerine birds with long and pointed wings.—adj. Swall′ow-tailed like a swallow's tail in form forked and pointed—of a dress-coat.
v.t. to receive through the gullet into the stomach: to engulf: to absorb: to occupy: to exhaust.—n. Swall′ower.
编辑:玛杰里
娱乐性解释:
To dream of swallows, is a sign of peace and domestic harmony. To see a wounded or dead one, signifies unavoidable sadness.
手打:威利
例句:
- He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- He was pompous, but with such a cook what would one not swallow? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- She went very slowly across the room, for pride was hard to swallow, and stood by him, but he did not turn his head. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- She sat, hour after hour, looking at him, now softly arranging his pillow, and, while he had power to swallow, administered his drink. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- With that head it is like one of those porcupine fish that swallow air and swell up after they are caught. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Love had come, as the rod of the master-prophet, to swallow up every minor propensity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Unprepared as he was for the large pill he had to swallow, he got it down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- Having first seen him perfectly swallowed up in admiration of Mrs. Jellyby, I had supposed her to be the absorbing object of his devotion. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- He knows drugs, you may be sure, as you can neither smell nor see, neither before they're swallowed nor after. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Child thought it capital fun, went back next day, and swallowed another bead. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- She falls from the lowermost stair, and is swallowed up in the gulf. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Experimenting on the machine swallowed a great deal of capital, and the stockholders of the company he had formed became impatient. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Anselmo tipped it up and swallowed. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- I had now swallowed my tea. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Groups of every description were to be seen devouring the food and swallowing the liquor thus abandoned to their discretion. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Mr Merdle, with a dry, swallowing action, seemed to dispose of those qualities like a bolus; then added, 'As a sort of return for it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- Con-signed in a safe quarter,' replied George, wringing the heads off half a dozen shrimps, and swallowing them without any more ado. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I feel as if I had been half drowned, and swallowing a gallon of it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Then, withdrawing his hand and swallowing his mouthful of chop, he said to Stephen: 'Now you know, this good lady is a born lady, a high lady. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Thoroughly masticate the food, and well salivate it before swallowing. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Giving his wine a final chew, and swallowing it, the informer answered in a single word: 'Hages! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The Kalmucks to-day, like the swallows, go yearly a thousand miles from one home to another. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- But I remember with the blowing of the train the lamp of the engine blew by over my head and pieces of steel flew by like swallows. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- The dull crackling noise noticed in the ear when one swallows is due to the entrance and exit of air in the tube. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- Like swallows. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- He might as well buy next year's swallows. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The swallows circled around and I watched them and the night-hawks flying above the roofs and drank the Cinzano. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The predominant passion swallows up the inferior, and converts it into itself. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
手打:马吉