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 fears that the matter will simply be swallowed up by the maw of bureaucracy and that a decision will never be made.
  她害怕这件事会被官僚机构所耽搁，永远得不到一个明断。
• The agency does not currently have any scientific data that shows there numbers of the fish are falling, it added. Sashimi made from the maw of bluefin tuna cost 300 NT per slice.
  报导又补充，水产厅目前并没有任何科学数据，证明鲔鱼数量正在减少中。黑鲔肚子的生鱼片以片计价，一片三百元。
• You rush headlong into the maw of madness!
  你们正在向着疯狂的血盆大口奔跑！
• 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。
• Had it been a well wolf, it would not have mattered so much to the man; but the thought of going to feed the maw of that loathsome and all but dead thing was repugnant to him.
  如果这是头健康的狼，他也觉得没什么；可是一想到自己要葬身狼腹，尤其是眼前这头令人作恶、病怏怏的饿狼，他就觉得非常厌恶。
• Swallowed up in the maw of battle.
  在一场战役中被吞噬。
• I'm gonna cook me up some chitterlings and hog maw.
  我要自己煮个猪肠跟猪肚来吃。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。