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

• 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。
• 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）
• 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；
• 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。
• 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。
• He felt the maw heavy and slippery in his hands and he slit it open.
  他觉得鱼胃在手里重甸甸、滑溜溜的，就把它剖开来。
• Swallowed up in the maw of battle.
  在一场战役中被吞噬。
• 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。
• 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。
• Not to worry, chirps Linda. That's just Satan's hungry maw.
  用不着担心，琳达吭声说，只是撒旦饥饿的胃罢了。