chews

英 [tʃuːz]

美 [tʃuːz]

v.  咀嚼; 嚼碎; (因为紧张等)咬住，不停地啃; (为尝味道)不停地咀嚼
n.  咀嚼; 口香糖; 供嚼用的烟草
chew的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 咀嚼;嚼(碎)
  When youchewfood, you use your teeth to break it up in your mouth so that it becomes easier to swallow.
  1. Be certain to eat slowly and chew your food extremely well...
     一定要慢慢吃，要细细咀嚼。
  2. Daniel leaned back on the sofa, still chewing on his apple.
     丹尼尔倚在沙发上，嘴里还在嚼着苹果。
  3. ...the sound of his mother chewing and swallowing.
     他妈妈咀嚼、吞咽的声音
• VERB 嚼(口香糖、烟草)
  If youchewgum or tobacco, you keep biting it and moving it around your mouth to taste the flavour of it. You do not swallow it.
  1. One girl was chewing gum...
     一个女孩在嚼口香糖。
  2. He chews tobacco constantly.
     他不停地嚼烟草。
• VERB (因为紧张)咬(嘴唇、指甲)
  If youchewyour lips or your fingernails, you keep biting them because you are nervous.
  1. He chewed his lower lip nervously.
     他紧张地咬着下嘴唇。
• VERB (人或动物)咬，啃
  If a person or animalchewsan object, they bite it with their teeth.
  1. They pause and chew their pencils...
     他们停了下来，咬着铅笔。
  2. One owner left his pet under the stairs where the animal chewed through electric cables.
     有个人把宠物放在楼梯下面，结果它在那儿把电线咬断了。
• N-COUNT 口嚼糖
  Achewis a sweet that you have to chew very hard before it becomes soft.
  1. ...a selection of penny chews.
     各式各样可供选择的便宜口嚼糖
• PHRASE 试图承担力不能及的事
  If you say that someonehas bitten off more thantheycan chew, you mean that they are trying to do something which is too difficult for them.
  1. Micky is used to handling dodgy deals but this time fears he may have bitten off more than he can chew.
     米基本来是善于处理棘手交易的，可是这回他可能会力有不逮。
• PHR-RECIP 闲聊;闲扯
  If peoplechew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way.
  1. We'd been lounging around, chewing the fat for a couple of hours.
     我们东游西逛，瞎扯了两三个钟头。
• tochew the cud→ see:cud

双语例句

• There is a very good reason for encouraging this trait in your horse: when he chews quietly on the bit, his mouth is soft and mobile.
  有非常好的理由鼓励你的马发展这项特征。当他安静的咀嚼受衔时，他的嘴是柔软的运动的。
• You may eat any animal that has a split hoof completely divided and that chews the cud.
  凡蹄分两瓣，倒嚼的走兽，你们都可以吃。
• He chews tobacco constantly.
  他不停地嚼烟草。
• It chews the organ through the destruction the integrity, serious influence whole body health.
  它通过破坏咀嚼器官的完整性，严重的影响着全身健康。
• If he or she has strong jaws and chews on the ball it can pop into the back of her throat and cut off the air supply.
  如果它有强壮的嘴（大嘴巴），在咬球的时候很可能球会突然的进到嗓子里并卡在那里造成窒息。
• The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you.
  兔子，因为倒嚼不分蹄，就与你们不洁净；
• If a chow chews shoes how does it choose which shoes to chew?
  如果一只中国家犬嚼鞋子，它怎么知道选哪些鞋子来嚼呢？
• Plus a large file precludes using a DOM-based parser since it takes forever to build the tree, and chews up a lot of memory doing it.
  使用大文件就意味着无法使用基于DOM的解析器，因为创建树的时间会很长，而且需要消耗大量的内存。
• As the old man stares down at the threadbare carpet, a mangy dog chews at scraps under the kitchen sink.
  当这老人凝视脚下磨掉了毛的地毯时，一只脱了毛的狗正在厨房污水槽下嚼食残羹剩饭。
• She chews slowly, savoring each bite, as if the thoughts will fade away as soon as the orange is eaten and more slices of her life will peel away.
  她慢慢地咀嚼，品味着每一口，仿佛记忆会随着被吃掉的橘子消逝，她的生命也会被瓣瓣撕落。