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词汇 swallowed
释义 swallowed
past simple and past participle ofswallow
swallow
verb
uk /ˈswɒl.əʊ/ us /ˈswɑː.loʊ/

swallowverb (THROAT)


B2[ I or T ]
to cause food, drink, pills, etc. to move from your mouth into your stomach by using the muscles of your throat: 吞咽,吞下,咽下
My throat is so sore that it really hurts when I swallow.我的喉咙很痛,吞咽起来很难受。
He put a grape into his mouth and swallowed it whole.他把一颗葡萄放进嘴里,整个儿吞了下去。
[ I ]
to use the muscles of your throat, as if moving something from your mouth into your stomach, because you are nervous or frightened, or are about to say something: (因为紧张、害怕或要开始说话而)做吞咽动作,咽口水
He swallowed hard and said, "Dad, I have something to tell you."他狠劲儿咽了一下口水说:“爸,我有点事想告诉您。”
Jamie's always had trouble swallowing pills.杰米吞药时总是很费劲。
He swallowed his drink in one gulp.他把杯中的酒一饮而尽。
You'll give yourself indigestion if you swallow your dinner so quickly.你如果吃饭这么狼吞虎咽会消化不良的。
Keep a lookout for small objects that a baby might swallow.注意不要让婴儿吞食小东西。
Because I'm a bad swimmer, I often go under and swallow a lot of water.因为游泳水平很差,我经常沉到水下,呛很多水。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Eating
al desko
binge
binge eating
bite
break breadidiom
cram
devour
fall on/upon someone
feast
feast on something
feeder
feeding
gulp
inhale
mainline
pick at something
picnic
pig
pig out
postprandial

swallowverb (TAKE AWAY)


[ T ]
If something large swallows (up) another thing, it makes it disappear or stop existing separately by making it part of itself: 吞掉;吞没
An increasing amount of the countryside is being swallowed (up) by the town.越来越多的乡村被城镇吞没。
Many small businesses have been swallowed (up) by large companies.很多小企业已经被大公司吞并了。
[ T ]
to use or take away a large part of something valuable: (大量)耗费,损耗
Taxes have swallowed up nearly half of my pay increase.我的加薪有近一半都被税收抵消了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enclosing, surrounding and immersing
beleaguer
beleaguered
beset
border
box someone/something in
drown
enclosure
fence something in
fence something off
flooding
gather
gift wrap
gift-wrapped
sheathe
siege
soak
steep
steep something/someone in something
submersion
swaddle

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Using and misusing

swallowverb (ACCEPT)


C2[ T ]informal
to accept something without question or without expressing disagreement: 轻信;全盘接受
Not surprisingly, this excuse was too much for them to swallow.不出所料,他们无法接受这个借口。
He swallowed her story whole.他对她的说法深信不疑。
She swallowed his sales pitch hook, line, and sinker(= believed it completely).她对他的推销之词深信不疑。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to believe someone or something
believeCan we believe a word of what this man says?
acceptMost people accept what the newspapers say as being correct.
creditUKIt’s hard to credit that she’s 87.
swallowI personally find it hard to swallow the official narrative.
buyWhen it comes to global warming, he doesn't buy it, and is out to discredit the whole theory.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Believing
accept
allegedly
article of faith
ascribe something to something
ascription
belief
delude
deluded
evidently
feel it in your bonesidiom
give credence to something
incline
put stock in somethingidiom
received
recognize
room
room for doubtidiom
see something in someone/something
swallow
swear

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Accepting & agreeing reluctantly

swallowverb (NOT EXPRESS)


C2[ T ]
to not express or show something: 不表露,不表现,抑制住
She swallowed her disappointment, saying, "That's OK, it doesn't matter."她抑制住自己的失望说:“没事,没关系。”
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Controlling emotions
anger management
blackmail
bottle
bottle something up
breaking point
choke
compose
dysregulated
dysregulation
emotional blackmailidiom
fight back
frustrated
gulp
play it coolidiom
put on a brave faceidiom
repress
repressed
repression
self-possessed
temperate

Idioms


swallow your words
swallow the bait

Examples of swallowed


swallowed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


We found i that spider monkeys swallowed seeds from almost all of the species from which they ate ripe fruits.
This is well illustrated by the painful experience of a father whose son was swallowed up in such a group.
As a basic science it died as a result of its own success, swallowed by its offspring, high-energy physics.
Seeds that are swallowed, however, can travel longer distances having the potential advantage to colonize new microhabitats and escape predation near conspecifics.
Offenbach swallowed his pride and restored the singers, after which the tour became a great popular (and financial) success.
Most flower buds were also swallowed whole allowing them to be measured.
When his brother's wife came for water, he changed himself into a small leaf and was swallowed with the water.
The way out seemed to be either to swallow or be swallowed by ' ' all.
In a famous sequence, he throws himself face down on the conveyer belt and is swallowed by the machine.
Care was taken that the chicken swallowed the entire inoculum.
Polyhydramnios may be secondary to oesophageal obstruction/compression thus reducing the volume of liquor swallowed.
Tablets should not be swallowed in the semi-supine or supine position, and/or sufficient fluid should be taken with large tablets.
In this study, we estimated dispersal distances and deposition sites of seeds swallowed by two gibbon groups, using gut transit times and daily ranging patterns.
Indeed, how might such an order be maintained if the "whole population" were swallowed up by an undifferentiated mass of filth?
The factory she starts work in on leaving school is eventually bought by a larger company, which is swallowed up by a multi-national.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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