| 词汇 | swallow |
| 释义 | swallow Theme: ACCEPTANCE tr. to believe or accept something.Did they actually swallow that?Nobody's gonna swallow that nonsense. Theme: DRUGS - PORTION n. a puff of cigarette smoke.He took just one swallow and started coughing.Can I have a swallow of your fag? swallow 1. noun a drink of alcohol UK, 1822 2. verb 1 to easily accept something as true UK, 1594. 2 to accept something that has happened without complaint or acknowledgement. A shortening of 'swallow your pride' UK, 2000.► swallow a dictionaryto be loquacious or sesquipedalian; to habitually use long or erudite words AUSTRALIA, 1957.► swallow a gunto commit suicide by gunshot to the mouth US, 1981.► swallow spitto stop talking; to be quiet US, 1993.► swallow the oliveto lose your composure and concentration US, 1961 swallow down swallow down sth • swallow sth down to make something that is in your mouth go down your throat and towards your stomach: Christina shook two pills out of the bottle and swallowed them down. Stewart swallowed down his wine and got up. swallow up 1. swallow up sth • swallow sth up usually passive if a large country, company, or organization swallows up a smaller one, the smaller one becomes part of the larger one: The tiny island state was swallowed up by Indonesia in 1976. A lot of the old publishing firms have been swallowed up by huge multinationals.■ SIMILAR TO: take over, absorb2. swallow up sth • swallow sth up usually passive if something swallows up a large amount of money, it uses all of it, so that the money is not available for other things: I got a pay rise, but it was swallowed up by the increase in train fares.■ SIMILAR TO: eat up3. swallow up sb/sth • swallow sb/sth up literary if something such as darkness, a cloud, or a crowd swallows someone or something up, it hides them so that they cannot be seen: The storm had swallowed up the daylight. Sheets of dense gray rain fell from the sky. No sooner did the moon spill its silver light over the fields than it was swallowed up by cloud. She watched as Blake walked down the street, until he was swallowed up by the crowd.■ SIMILAR TO: engulf swallow1. n. a puff of cigarette smoke. He took just one swallow and started coughing. 2. tv. to believe or accept something. (see also eat something up.) Nobody’s gonna swallow that nonsense.
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