maw

英 [mɔː]

美 [mɔː]

n.  无底洞; 吞噬一切的深渊; (动物的)胃，咽喉

复数：maws　

BNC.34365 / COCA.20963

牛津词典

noun

• 无底洞；吞噬一切的深渊
  something that seems like a big mouth that swallows things up completely
• （动物的）胃，咽喉
  an animal's stomach or throat

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (吞噬周围一切的)大嘴,大洞
  If you describe something as amaw, you mean that it is like a big open mouth which swallows everything near it.
  1. ...helping to chop wood to feed the red maw of the stove.
     帮忙把木头劈开，丢进炉子的大肚子里

英英释义

noun

• informal terms for the mouth
  Synonym:trapcakeholeholeyapgob

双语例句

• She disappeared once more in the open maw of the tower.
  她再度消失在了高塔张开的巨口之中。
• Nor has the disappearance into the Treasury maw of the revenues from this month's doubling of air-passenger duty helped.
  财政部吞掉这个月两倍的飞机乘客税也起到什么作用。
• It became apparent that Japanese promises of independence were merely a sham and that Ba Maw was just a puppet.
  很明显日本所承诺的缅甸的独立仅是一个幌子，巴莫只是一个傀儡。
• Methods: the samples were fixed with 4% formaldehyde, Bouin's fluid, 4% paraformaldehyde and MAW fluid respectively in order to select a suitable fixative for the histamine immunochemical techniques and to define the most appropriate dilution of histamine antibody.
  方法：在4%中性甲醛液、Bouin's液、4%多聚甲醛液和MAW液中选择组胺免疫组化技术所适用的固定液，选择组胺抗体的最佳稀释度；
• It floats before you, a bulbous body with a central, unblinking eye, and a large maw filled with daggerlike teeth.
  它在你面前飘浮着，球根状的身体上有一只位于中央一眨不眨的眼睛，一张尖牙利齿的血盆大口。
• The war swallowed up many young men into its maw.
  战争把许多青年男子吞进了它的无底洞。
• However, my friend simply could not see someone brave the rough maw of a New York subway without trying to help.
  然而我朋友就是不能眼看着有人在纽约地铁独入是非之地而置之不顾。
• None of you will bid the winter come To thrust his icy fingers in my maw;
  你们之中谁也不会去把冬天叫来，让它把冰冷的手指探进我的喉咙；
• I saw the opening maw of hell ( Herman Melville)
  我看到地狱张开了无底洞（赫尔曼梅尔维尔）
• After he had rested, he cut fillets from the dolphin and kept also the two flying fish he found in its maw.
  休息一会之后，他切下几片海豚肉并且把在海豚胃中发现的两条飞鱼留了下来。