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salivate

/sal-uh-veyt/US // ˈsæl əˌveɪt //UK // (ˈsælɪˌveɪt) //

流口水,流口水了,流涎,垂涎三尺

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v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sal·i·vat·ed, sal·i·vat·ing.

    • : to produce saliva.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    sal·i·vat·ed, sal·i·vat·ing.

    • : to produce an excessive secretion of saliva in, as by mercurial poisoning.

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Examples

  • With its robust interest targeting, first and third party data, conversion and other offerings, it’s an offering that would make any media buyer salivate.

  • Presumably the only option left is to cut spending on Medicaid or Social Security or some other popular safety-net program Republicans have long salivated over slashing.

  • Should Woods manage to recover and build his body back into the shape where he can compete, maybe there will be a time when the hope will return, when we will salivate for every update about the improbable moving toward possible.

  • My Life and Living History hit the perfect intersection of news and gossip, and people who salivate for both bought those books.

  • But my parents also left me with a dearth of hobbies that make admissions committees salivate.

  • What is it about celebrities that makes otherwise sensible journalists salivate and tilt at windmills?

  • I would salivate, literally, at his stories of hunting the lawless lands of Europe.

  • Thoroughly masticate the food, and well salivate it before swallowing.

  • Hit's too much de work er yo' j'ints ter make me b'lieve hit's gwine ter salivate yo' soul.

  • Doctor Cooke's only fear in his heroic use of calomel was that it would salivate.

  • It has been known thus to salivate cattle, but the danger of injury to them from this source is slight.

  • The boys will certain salivate him, asserted the guard, as the men were rising and approaching the fire.