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

• This will build Australia's biggest coal mine, as well as a490km ( 300-mile) railway to carry the black stuff to the coast, and thence to China's ravenous industrial maw.
  这笔资金将建成澳洲最大的煤矿业，以及一条长达490公里的运煤铁路。澳洲的煤矿，将通过这条铁路，流向中国贪婪的工业之腹。
• Mandarin Fish Maw reserves the right to amend Terms& Conditions without prior notice.
  本店保留此咭之使用细则之最终决定权，如有更改则无须预先通知。
• 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。
• This Lion will trample the Boar under foot and terrify it with its open maw.
  狮子会用足底踩踏野猪，用张开的胃恐吓它。
• 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。
• I'm gonna cook me up some chitterlings and hog maw.
  我要自己煮个猪肠跟猪肚来吃。
• "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。
• 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。
• 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）