swallow 的 3 个定义
- to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
- to take in so as to envelop; withdraw from sight; assimilate or absorb: He was swallowed by the crowd.
- to accept without question or suspicion.
- (8)
- to perform the act of swallowing.
swallow 近义词
consume
believe without much thought
由swallow构成的短语
- swallow one's pride
- swallow one's words
- bitter pill to swallow
更多swallow例句
- This is a tedious process without a pot, but you can melt a few swallows at a time in a piece of tinfoil, a can or bottle discarded by a sloppy hiker.
- What was uncontestable — especially during a moment when most things felt like a tough swallow — was that it was a movement that seemed to go down remarkably easily.
- For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.
- For the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill to swallow.
- Even more difficult to swallow: Perry likes to put his name in front of a lot of his projects.
- It's a hard pill to swallow not because the show isn't good.
- Jordan is in an even more delicate position, and a country that ISIS would dearly like to swallow.
- Hunger had to be satisfied, however, and I had to swallow my pride and my five-pennyworth.
- In smoking, they swallow the fumes of the tobacco which causes intoxication for a time.
- The birds that build them swallow a certain kind of glutinous weed growing on the coral rocks.
- Here was something for the "babes and sucklings" of the craft of violin making to swallow.
- I doa'nt swallow that story o' her'n. Depend upon it, man, it be a big lie fro' beginning to end.