Wallow
['wɒləʊ] or ['wɑlo]
解释:
(noun.) an indolent or clumsy rolling about; 'a good wallow in the water'.
(noun.) a puddle where animals go to wallow.
(verb.) delight greatly in; 'wallow in your success!'.
(verb.) devote oneself entirely to something; indulge in to an immoderate degree, usually with pleasure; 'Wallow in luxury'; 'wallow in your sorrows'.
(verb.) be ecstatic with joy.
(verb.) roll around, 'pigs were wallowing in the mud'.
校对:桑福德--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
(n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
(n.) To wither; to fade.
(v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
(n.) A kind of rolling walk.
加德纳整理
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Flounder, roll, welter.
埃尔默编辑
解释:
v.i. (prov.) to fade away.
v.i. to roll about as in mire: to live in filth or gross vice.—n. the place an animal wallows in.—n. Wall′ower.
编辑:维姬
例句:
- Armies would wallow across the country, leaving nothing behind but dust and mud. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Whenever he had the time to spare, he went off to Brasdimir for a dip in the sea, and would plunge and wallow in the water like a dolphin. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I wallow in words. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- There were no big land beasts at all; wallowing amphibia and primitive reptiles were the very highest creatures that life had so far produced. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- In testimony of the extent to which he smarted, Mr Fledgeby came wallowing out of the easy-chair, and took another roll on the carpet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Oh, how simple it would all have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo and wallowed all over it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
整理:辛克莱