Swim
[swɪm]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) move as if gliding through water; 'this snake swims through the soil where it lives'.
(verb.) travel through water; 'We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore'; 'a big fish was swimming in the tank'.
(verb.) be covered with or submerged in a liquid; 'the meat was swimming in a fatty gravy'.
(verb.) be dizzy or giddy; 'my brain is swimming after the bottle of champagne'.
尤金校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.
(v. i.) To move progressively in water by means of strokes with the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.
(v. i.) To be overflowed or drenched.
(v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
(v. i.) To be filled with swimming animals.
(v. t.) To pass or move over or on by swimming; as, to swim a stream.
(v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river.
(v. t.) To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed.
(n.) The act of swimming; a gliding motion, like that of one swimming.
(n.) The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.
(n.) A part of a stream much frequented by fish.
(v. i.) To be dizzy; to have an unsteady or reeling sensation; as, the head swims.
校對:齐利格
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. [1]. Float, be borne up (on a liquid).[2]. Be borne along (as on water, by effort or by a current), buffet the waves, float with the tide.[3]. Glide, skim.[4]. Be flooded, be inundated.[5]. Be dizzy (as the head).
艾比校對
解釋/意思:
v.i. to float as opposed to sink: to move on or in water: to be borne along by a current: to glide along with a waving motion: to be dizzy: to be drenched: to overflow: to abound.—v.t. to pass by swimming: to make to swim or float:—pr.p. swim′ming; pa.t. swam; pa.p. swum or swam.—n. act of swimming: any motion like swimming: air-bladder of a fish.—adj. Swim′mable capable of being swum.—ns. Swim′mer one who swims: a web-footed aquatic bird; Swim′meret one of the abdominal appendages which in the lobster and other Crustacea are used in swimming; Swim′ming the act of floating or moving on or in the water: dizziness; Swim′ming-bath a bath large enough for swimming in.—adv. Swim′mingly in a gliding manner as if swimming: smoothly successfully.—ns. Swim′mingness the state of swimming: a melting look tearfulness; Swim′ming-pond an artificial pond adapted for swimming in; Swim′ming-school a place where swimming is taught; Swim′ming-stone a cellular variety of flint—float-stone.—In the swim in the main current of affairs business &c.
整理:谢尔登
例句/造句/用法:
- As the golden swim of light overhead died out, the moon gained brightness, and seemed to begin to smile forth her ascendancy. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I kin swim, gentlemen, said Gurt stoutly. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- And upon this I decided in my own mind to sink or swim with it. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I cannot be of opinion with you, that it is too late in life for you to learn to swim. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Supposing I want to swim up that water. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Only come and see him swim! 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- I ran back for a light and there was the poor fellow, a great gash in his throat and the whole place swimming in blood. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Here he was taken off his legs, and in swimming was carried round into the centre of the basin, where he perceived Wildeve struggling. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The swimming-bladders or sounds, besides being highly nutritious, supply, if rightly prepared, isinglass equal to the best of that which is brought from Russia. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- So I struck into the stream, and in an instant the horse was swimming and I being carried down by the current. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- He, having swum a certain distance, turned round and was swimming on his back, looking along the water at the two girls by the wall. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- These qualities render it peculiarly serviceable for the stopping of vessels of different kinds, for floats, buoys, swimming-belts or jackets, artificial limbs, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A few of our cavalry dashed in, and forded and swam the stream, and all opposition was soon dispersed. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- For my own part, I swam as fortune directed me, and was pushed forward by wind and tide. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- And indeed my head swam: I dropped, but a chair received me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I could make no sense of the subject; my own thoughts swam always between me and the page I had usually found fascinating. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Then Hermione and Miss Bradley swam over, and they sat in a row on the embankment. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I reeled beneath their blows which fell upon me in perfect torrents; my head swam; all was black, and I went down beneath them to oblivion. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- The world swims and changes round me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- We have not sailed, but three swims are equal to a sail, are they not? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- My head swims! 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- They want to explore the sewers, and he's the wizard rat that swims ahead. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He is shipwrecked, and swims for his life. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- He, having swum a certain distance, turned round and was swimming on his back, looking along the water at the two girls by the wall. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Gerald had dived in, after Sir Joshua, and had swum to the end of the pond. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- I had done half the retreat on foot and swum part of the Tagliamento with his knee. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- And I'd have swum off, towing him by the hair, if it had come to that, and I'd a got him aboard without the soldiers. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
整理:诺拉