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

柯林斯词典

• 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

英英释义

noun

• informal terms for the mouth
  Synonym:trapcakeholeholeyapgob

双语例句

• She fears that the matter will simply be swallowed up by the maw of bureaucracy and that a decision will never be made.
  她害怕这件事会被官僚机构所耽搁，永远得不到一个明断。
• "There was heavy rain and creeks were flooded with torrents of water, which made them difficult to cross," Pa-an district KNU chairman Pado Saw Aung Maw Aye told Mizzima.
  “大雨中小溪山洪汹涌而下，缅军携带重装备，使他们难以行进”帕安地区克伦民族联盟主席巴多梭昂茂诶称。
• It floats before you, a bulbous body with a central, unblinking eye, and a large maw filled with daggerlike teeth.
  它在你面前飘浮着，球根状的身体上有一只位于中央一眨不眨的眼睛，一张尖牙利齿的血盆大口。
• 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）
• 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。
• She disappeared once more in the open maw of the tower.
  她再度消失在了高塔张开的巨口之中。
• However, my friend simply could not see someone brave the rough maw of a New York subway without trying to help.
  然而我朋友就是不能眼看着有人在纽约地铁独入是非之地而置之不顾。
• Now to widespread adopt continuous MAW ( merge arc welding) method produces spire steel tube.
  目前普遍采用连续成型、埋弧焊接的方法制造螺旋钢管。
• None of you will bid the winter come To thrust his icy fingers in my maw;
  你们之中谁也不会去把冬天叫来，让它把冰冷的手指探进我的喉咙；
• 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。