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。
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。
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'm gonna cook me up some chitterlings and hog maw.
我要自己煮个猪肠跟猪肚来吃。
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。
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；
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。
You rush headlong into the maw of madness!
你们正在向着疯狂的血盆大口奔跑！
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。
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。