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gulping

/guhlp/US // gʌlp //UK // (ɡʌlp) //

大口喝水,大口大口地吃,大口大口地喝,大口吃肉

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to gasp or choke, as when taking large drafts of a liquid.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to swallow eagerly, or in large drafts or morsels: He gulps down his food like a starving man.
    • : to suppress, subdue, or choke back as if by swallowing: to gulp down a sob.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of gulping: He drank the whole bottle of beer in one gulp.
    • : the amount swallowed at one time; mouthful.

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Examples

  • Baikal seals may be using these teeth to efficiently sieve their plankton prize from the lake, expelling excess water with every gulp, the researchers say.

  • Even so distant, I can taste the grief, / Bitter and sharp with stalks, he made you gulp…Where bridal London bows the other way.

  • But even allowing for the fact that the state elected Mama Big Gulp as its governor, the Alaska number has to be a solid majority.

  • The sugar in a $1.39 Big Gulp soda at 7-Eleven accounts for only a few cents of its cost.

  • While delivering her speech at CPAC, Sarah Palin drank from a big gulp.

  • There was even a speech from Sarah Palin who made a joke about her "rack" and sipped a big gulp on stage.

  • He devoured it whole with a kind of visual gulp—a flash; the entire meaning first, then lines, then separate words.

  • "Five minutes to twelve, baby," said the old man, and his voice had a gulp in it that broke June down.

  • He made the speech with a gulp, as though it were distasteful to him.

  • He got the question out with a separate gulp for each separate word.

  • "They are all round us in the scrub; you never know where they are," Eustace said with a gulp.