swallow是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to cause food, drink, pills, etc. to move from your mouth into your stomach by using the muscles of your throat -- 吞嚥，吞下，嚥下

  • My throat is so sore that it really hurts when I swallow. 我的喉嚨很痛，吞嚥起來很難受。

  • He put a grape into his mouth and swallowed it whole. 他把一顆葡萄放進嘴裡，整個吞了下去。

  • He swallowed hard and said, "Dad, I have something to tell you." 他用力吞了吞口水說：「爸，我有點事想告訴您。」

• 1 If something large swallows (up) another thing, it makes it disappear or stop existing separately by making it part of itself. -- 吞掉；吞沒

  • An increasing amount of the countryside is being swallowed (up) by the town. 越來越多的鄉村被城鎮吞沒。

  • Many small businesses have been swallowed (up) by large companies. 很多小企業已經被大公司吞併了。

  • Taxes have swallowed up nearly half of my pay increase. 我的加薪有近一半都被稅收抵消了。

• 2 to accept something without question or without expressing disagreement -- 輕信；全盤接受

  • Not surprisingly, this excuse was too much for them to swallow. 不出所料，他們無法接受這個藉口。

  • He swallowed her story whole. 他對她的說法深信不疑。

  • She swallowed his sales pitch hook, line, and sinker (= believed it completely). 她對他的推銷之詞深信不疑。

• 3 to not express or show something -- 不表露，不表現，抑制住

  • She swallowed her disappointment, saying, "That's OK, it doesn't matter." 她抑制住自己的失望說：「沒事，沒關係。」

• 4 an act of using the muscles of your throat, or the amount of something you move into your stomach from your mouth by using the muscles of your throat -- 吞，嚥，吞嚥

  • He gave a swallow, then began speaking. 他吞了吞口水，然後開始說話。

• 5 a small bird with pointed wings and a tail with two points that flies quickly and catches insects to eat as it flies -- 燕子