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

Rabid maw decreases an enemy's strength and agility.
降低敌人的力量和敏捷。
Had it been a well wolf, it would not have mattered so much to the man; but the thought of going to feed the maw of that loathsome and all but dead thing was repugnant to him.
如果这是头健康的狼，他也觉得没什么；可是一想到自己要葬身狼腹，尤其是眼前这头令人作恶、病怏怏的饿狼，他就觉得非常厌恶。
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。
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。
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。
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。
With its gaping maw, hairless body and eyes that sit high on its head, the semiaquatic hippo is one of the most distinctive members of Africa's mammalian menagerie.
河马是非洲野生哺乳动物中形象鲜明的一员，体表无毛，有著一张大嘴巴，两只眼睛长在头顶上。
You rush headlong into the maw of madness!
你们正在向着疯狂的血盆大口奔跑！
The agency does not currently have any scientific data that shows there numbers of the fish are falling, it added. Sashimi made from the maw of bluefin tuna cost 300 NT per slice.
报导又补充，水产厅目前并没有任何科学数据，证明鲔鱼数量正在减少中。黑鲔肚子的生鱼片以片计价，一片三百元。