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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• With its gaping maw, hairless body and eyes that sit high on its head, the semiaquatic hippo is one of the most distinctive members of Africa's mammalian menagerie.
  河马是非洲野生哺乳动物中形象鲜明的一员，体表无毛，有著一张大嘴巴，两只眼睛长在头顶上。
• 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；
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• "There was heavy rain and creeks were flooded with torrents of water, which made them difficult to cross," Pa-an district KNU chairman Pado Saw Aung Maw Aye told Mizzima.
  “大雨中小溪山洪汹涌而下，缅军携带重装备，使他们难以行进”帕安地区克伦民族联盟主席巴多梭昂茂诶称。
• This will build Australia's biggest coal mine, as well as a490km ( 300-mile) railway to carry the black stuff to the coast, and thence to China's ravenous industrial maw.
  这笔资金将建成澳洲最大的煤矿业，以及一条长达490公里的运煤铁路。澳洲的煤矿，将通过这条铁路，流向中国贪婪的工业之腹。