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swallow

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英 ['sw?l??] 美['swɑlo]

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近義詞accept believe consume take devour gulp ingest eat

vt. 忍受；吞沒
vi. 吞下；咽下
n. 燕子；一次吞咽的量
n. (Swallow)人名；(英)斯沃洛

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詞態變化

復數:?swallows;第三人稱單數:?swallows;過去式:?swallowed;過去分詞:?swallowed;現在分詞:?swallowing;

助記提示

1. 形近詞：wallow, tallow, swallow, shallow, sallow, hallow, callow, fallow.
2. 蛇在一個低矮的墻上，準備吞食這只燕子。

中文詞源

swallow 燕子，燕

來自古英語 swealwe,燕子，來自 Proto-Germanic*swalwo,燕子。

英文詞源

swallow: swallow: English has two distinct words swallow. The verb, ‘ingest’ [OE], comes from a prehistoric Germanic *swelgan, which also produced German schwelgen, Dutch swelgen, Swedish sv?lja, and Danish sv?lge. It was formed from a base which also gave Old Norse svelgr ‘whirlpool, devourer’. Swallow the bird [OE] comes from a prehistoric Germanic *swalwōn, which also produced German schwalbe, Dutch zwaluw, Swedish svala, and Danish svale and is probably related to Russian solovej ‘nightingale’.
swallow (v.): "ingest through the throat" (transitive), Old English swelgan "swallow, imbibe, absorb" (class III strong verb; past tense swealg, past participle swolgen), from Proto-Germanic *swelgan/*swelhan (cognates: Old Saxon farswelgan, Old Norse svelgja "to swallow," Middle Dutch swelghen, Dutch zwelgen "to gulp, swallow," Old High German swelahan "to swallow," German schwelgen "to revel"), probably from PIE root *swel- (1) "to eat, drink" (cognates: Iranian *khvara- "eating").

Intransitive sense "perform the act of swallowing" is from c. 1700. Sense of "consume, destroy" is attested from mid-14c. Meaning "to accept without question" is from 1590s. Related: Swallowed; swallowing.
swallow (n.1): type of migratory bird (family Hirundinidae), Old English swealwe "swallow," from Proto-Germanic *swalwon (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Norse, Old Frisian, Swedish svala, Danish svale, Middle Dutch zwalewe, Dutch zwaluw, Old High German swalawa, German Schwalbe), from PIE *swol-wi- (cognates: Russian solowej, Slovak slavik, Polish s?owik "nightingale"). The etymological sense is disputed. Popularly regarded as harbingers of summer; swallows building nests on or near a house is considered good luck.
swallow (n.2): "an act of swallowing," 1822, from swallow (v.). In late Old English and Middle English it meant "gulf, abyss, hole in the earth, whirlpool," also, in Middle English, "throat, gullet." Compare Old Norse svelgr "whirlpool," literally "devourer, swallower." Meaning "as much as one can swallow at once, mouthful" is from 1861.

雙語例句

1. I too found this story a little hard to swallow.: 我也覺得這件事有點難以置信。

2. Did you ever swallow the conspiracy theory about Kennedy?: 你有沒有輕信過有關肯尼迪總統遇刺的陰謀論？

3. You are asked to swallow a capsule containing vitamin B.: 你要服一粒維生素B膠囊。

4. Sometimes he regurgitates the food we give him because he cannot swallow.: 有時他會倒嚼我們喂給他吃的食物，因為他無法吞咽。