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bask

/bask, bahsk/US // bæsk, bɑsk //UK // (bɑːsk) //

篮子,篮筐,盆地,垒

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to lie in or be exposed to a pleasant warmth: to bask in the sunshine.
    • : to enjoy a pleasant situation: He basked in royal favor.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : Obsolete. to expose to warmth or heat.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • The animals spend five hours a day grazing on grasses and the rest of their time basking in the cool waters of the Magdalena River and surrounding lakes.

  • For those times when you just want to sit back and bask in the highest-quality resolution and the most immersive sound, you need to pick your hardware carefully.

  • Spas and bathhouses were but a memory this year, but you can bask in hot hugs from the comfort of your own home.

  • In “The Bracebridge Dinner,” as everyone comes to the Independence Inn for an aggressively historically inaccurate “period dinner,” we get to bask in the feeling of being part of this community.

  • Although few things are more pleasurable than basking on granite slabs after a polar plunge in the High Sierra, the dapples on my shoulders from years of sun exposure indicate that I should do otherwise.

  • Five days, also, in which to bask in their own impressive achievements.

  • He'll talk up his Senate ambitions for awhile, bask in the political limelight, and then stick with his current shtick.

  • Even on Labor Day, while we bask in the blinding sun one last time.

  • Dmitri loved participating in interviews and documentaries, and again would bask in the role of generous host.

  • Wooldridge, forty, was the nineteenth-ranking official in an agency that did not exactly bask in White House attention.

  • And there, they say, two bright and agéd snakes Who once were brigadiers of infantry Bask in the sun.

  • We will bask in the warmth of a cheerful blaze this evening, and toast our toes before the glowing coals.

  • After his exertions in the rain and mud, it was delightful to bask in warmth and comfort and rest his aching limbs.

  • When she came to the room where she had left him she found no chance to “bask.”

  • He knew they had seen him disappearing and, airman like, they would remain awhile to bask in the sunlight and "dry off."