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

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；
Methods: the samples were fixed with 4% formaldehyde, Bouin's fluid, 4% paraformaldehyde and MAW fluid respectively in order to select a suitable fixative for the histamine immunochemical techniques and to define the most appropriate dilution of histamine antibody.
方法：在4%中性甲醛液、Bouin's液、4%多聚甲醛液和MAW液中选择组胺免疫组化技术所适用的固定液，选择组胺抗体的最佳稀释度；
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。
Rabid maw decreases an enemy's strength and agility.
降低敌人的力量和敏捷。
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。
Not to worry, chirps Linda. That's just Satan's hungry maw.
用不着担心，琳达吭声说，只是撒旦饥饿的胃罢了。
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。
"There was heavy rain and creeks were flooded with torrents of water, which made them difficult to cross," Pa-an district KNU chairman Pado Saw Aung Maw Aye told Mizzima.
“大雨中小溪山洪汹涌而下，缅军携带重装备，使他们难以行进”帕安地区克伦民族联盟主席巴多梭昂茂诶称。
The war swallowed up many young men into its maw.
战争把许多青年男子吞进了它的无底洞。
Decken's sifaka peers out from a jagged stone maw.
一只德肯狐猴从一处锯齿状的石头无底洞窥视。