Chew
[tʃuː] or [tʃʊ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow.
(noun.) a wad of something chewable as tobacco.
(verb.) chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth; 'He jawed his bubble gum'; 'Chew your food and don't swallow it!'; 'The cows were masticating the grass'.
欧内斯特整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To bite and grind with the teeth; to masticate.
(v. t.) To ruminate mentally; to meditate on.
(v. i.) To perform the action of biting and grinding with the teeth; to ruminate; to meditate.
(n.) That which is chewed; that which is held in the mouth at once; a cud.
整理:肯尼思
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Masticate, manducate, MUNCH.[2]. Champ, bite, gnaw.[3]. Meditate, ruminate, muse on, reflect upon, chew the cud upon.
v. n. Meditate, ruminate, muse, reflect.
黛博拉校對
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Masticate, munch, eat
ANT:Gorge, bolt_whole
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解釋/意思:
v.t. to cut and bruise with the teeth: to masticate: (fig.) to meditate reflect.—n. action of chewing: a quid of tobacco.—ns. Chew′et a kind of pie or pudding made of various ingredients mixed together; Chew′ing-gum a preparation made from a gum called chicle produced by a Mexican tree allied to the india-rubber tree sweetened and flavoured.—Chew the cud to masticate a second time food that has already been swallowed and passed into the first stomach: to ruminate in thought.
整理:梅尔巴
例句/造句/用法:
- You'd better chew some coffee. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Now, they surely must chew up those old stubs, and dry and sell them for smoking-tobacco. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- He said the fighting was over for the year down here and that the Italians had bitten off more than they could chew. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I make you heartily welcome to the idea, and hope its savour, as you chew the cud of reflection upon it, gives you pleasure. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Giving his wine a final chew, and swallowing it, the informer answered in a single word: 'Hages! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- See who it is, and don't chew when you open it! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Sometimes he says a rough thing or two, which is not agreeable to look at at first, but has a queer smack o' truth in it when yo' come to chew it. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Thank you,' said Tom, shaking his head dismally, and chewing rosebuds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- Or a moosic 'all, observed Gurt, chewing his quid reflectively. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Mr. Snagsby appears, greasy, warm, herbaceous, and chewing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The original chewing gum was spruce gum, the exudation of the cut branches of the spruce or fir tree. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The chewing gum wrapping machine is considered by machinery builders to be one of the most ingenious automatic manufacturing machines in use. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Instead of that, said I, plucking up more grass and chewing a blade or two, see how I am going on. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It was written on tissue paper, and wrapped up in tin-foil such as chewing tobacco is folded in. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- That was what that face really needed to complete it; a half chewed cigar. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Give me the wineskin and I will rinse the mouth, Robert Jordan said, his mouth full of meat, cheese, onion and chewed bread. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He chewed this up and disappeared. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- We walked along together through the town and I chewed the coffee. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Tons of paraffine are manufactured yearly into chewing gum and chewed harmlessly by thousands. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I lowered it into the mouth, sucked and snapped in the ends, and chewed, then took a bite of cheese, chewed, and then a drink of the wine. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- His head was covered completely with a large quantity of very white hair, and he chewed tobacco incessantly, nodding to friends as they passed by. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- See that she chews her food well and sets her foot down firmly on the ground when she walks, and you're all right. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
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