sop 的 3 个定义
- a piece of solid food, as bread, for dipping in liquid food.
- anything thoroughly soaked.
- something given to pacify or quiet, or as a bribe: The political boss gave him some cash as a sop.
- a weak-willed or spineless person; milksop.
sopped, sop·ping.
- to dip or soak in liquid food: to sop bread in gravy.
- to drench.
- to take up by absorption: He used bread to sop up the gravy.
sopped, sop·ping.
- to be or become soaking wet.
- to soak.
sop 近义词
drench
更多sop例句
- Try the weekend draw with the addition of nuggets of smoked short rib and use the accompanying pillowy pita, made with potatoes, as a sop for whatever a fork can’t retrieve from the foil container.
- A sop to lawmakers who represent congressional districts consisting entirely of catfish ponds.
- The whole thing is a substantive sop to the GOP right wing wrapped in a prettier package.
- Cynics, of course, can argue that this is just a sop to Western sensibilities.
- Liberals regard them as a sop to the wealthy, who receive the largest share of the benefits.
- But so-called populism is in many respects a mere sop to the Thai electorate, regardless of who is peddling it.
- An allusion to the fable in sop about the earthern and brazen pots being dashed together.
- Yet my guilty anticipation endured, and as a sop to conscience I tried to make myself believe there was no danger.
- I called the Bill timid, narrow, a mere sop to the jealousies of sects and little-minded people.
- Without a smile or a prayer, she arranged the sop for the babe, then sat down beside him to think.
- She was preparing the warm sop for the child, and taking him from his mother's arm, she sat down in the rocking chair.