maw

英 [mɔː]

美 [mɔː]

n. 无底洞; 吞噬一切的深渊; (动物的)胃，咽喉

复数：maws　

BNC.34365 / COCA.20963

牛津词典

noun

无底洞；吞噬一切的深渊
something that seems like a big mouth that swallows things up completely
（动物的）胃，咽喉
an animal's stomach or throat

N-COUNT (吞噬周围一切的)大嘴,大洞
If you describe something as amaw, you mean that it is like a big open mouth which swallows everything near it.
1. ...helping to chop wood to feed the red maw of the stove.
  帮忙把木头劈开，丢进炉子的大肚子里

noun

I saw the opening maw of hell ( Herman Melville)
我看到地狱张开了无底洞（赫尔曼梅尔维尔）
Swallowed up in the maw of battle.
在一场战役中被吞噬。
It became apparent that Japanese promises of independence were merely a sham and that Ba Maw was just a puppet.
很明显日本所承诺的缅甸的独立仅是一个幌子，巴莫只是一个傀儡。
The war swallowed up many young men into its maw.
战争把许多青年男子吞进了它的无底洞。
Nor has the disappearance into the Treasury maw of the revenues from this month's doubling of air-passenger duty helped.
财政部吞掉这个月两倍的飞机乘客税也起到什么作用。
Not to worry, chirps Linda. That's just Satan's hungry maw.
用不着担心，琳达吭声说，只是撒旦饥饿的胃罢了。
He felt the maw heavy and slippery in his hands and he slit it open.
他觉得鱼胃在手里重甸甸、滑溜溜的，就把它剖开来。
You rush headlong into the maw of madness!
你们正在向着疯狂的血盆大口奔跑！
After he had rested, he cut fillets from the dolphin and kept also the two flying fish he found in its maw.
休息一会之后，他切下几片海豚肉并且把在海豚胃中发现的两条飞鱼留了下来。
Maw and Meggins had a big factory and Herbert White worked there on the machinery.
莫和麦金森有一个大工厂，赫伯特·怀特在那儿作机器操作工。