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。
• 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 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。
• Swallowed up in the maw of battle.
  在一场战役中被吞噬。
• 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。
• 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。
• I'm not a worm in your maw.
  我不是你肚子里的蛔虫。
• "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。
• 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。
• This Lion will trample the Boar under foot and terrify it with its open maw.
  狮子会用足底踩踏野猪，用张开的胃恐吓它。