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

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 not a worm in your maw.
我不是你肚子里的蛔虫。
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。
Now to widespread adopt continuous MAW ( merge arc welding) method produces spire steel tube.
目前普遍采用连续成型、埋弧焊接的方法制造螺旋钢管。
I'm gonna cook me up some chitterlings and hog maw.
我要自己煮个猪肠跟猪肚来吃。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。