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swallow dive

燕子潜入,燕子潜水,燕子潜行,燕子跳水

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Chiefly British.

    • : swan dive.

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Examples

  • For Randy, a 50-year-old ex-Mormon gay man, this cure was a particularly bitter pill to swallow.

  • Not even after its parent company, the Soviet Union, took a dive in 1991.

  • When used improperly those encouraging statistics take a nose dive.

  • The young goslings' first major life event is to cliff dive down to their parents, as was captured here by BBC cameras.

  • For the Times, which had won four Pulitzer Prizes in 2013, the Snowden slip-up was a bitter pill 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.

  • Then came the end: the Titanic, with a low long slanting dive went down and with her Thomas Andrews.

  • Here was something for the "babes and sucklings" of the craft of violin making to swallow.