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

• 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。
• Mandarin Fish Maw reserves the right to amend Terms& Conditions without prior notice.
  本店保留此咭之使用细则之最终决定权，如有更改则无须预先通知。
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• Decken's sifaka peers out from a jagged stone maw.
  一只德肯狐猴从一处锯齿状的石头无底洞窥视。
• 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。
• 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；
• Maw and Meggins had a big factory and Herbert White worked there on the machinery.
  莫和麦金森有一个大工厂，赫伯特·怀特在那儿作机器操作工。
• Swallowed up in the maw of battle.
  在一场战役中被吞噬。