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

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。
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。
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。
Rabid maw decreases an enemy's strength and agility.
降低敌人的力量和敏捷。
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。
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。
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。
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。
I'm gonna cook me up some chitterlings and hog maw.
我要自己煮个猪肠跟猪肚来吃。
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。