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

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。
I saw the opening maw of hell ( Herman Melville)
我看到地狱张开了无底洞（赫尔曼梅尔维尔）
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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；