lick into shape
短语塑造, 使有效
发音
UK
/ˌlɪk ɪn.tuː ˈʃeɪ̯p/
CA
/ˌlɪk ɪn.tu ˈʃeɪ̯p/
US
/ˌlɪk ɪn.tu ˈʃeɪ̯p/
AU
/ˌlɪk ɪn.tʉː ˈʃæɪ̯p/
NZ
/ˌlək ən.tʉː ˈʃæɪ̯p/
SCOT
/ˌlɪk ɪn.tʉ ˈʃep/
IN
/ˌlɪk ɪn.ʈuː ˈʃeːp/
词形变化
licked into shape
licking into shape
licks into shape
三单
licks into shape
licking into shape
现在分词
licked into shape
过去式
licked into shape
过去分词
释义与例句
v.
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1.
To exert considerable effort to change (someone or something) into a desired state.
习语 及物
词源
From the medieval notion that bear cubs were born shapeless, and that the mother would lick them into the shape of a bear; see, for example, The Anatomy of Melancholy (2nd edition, 1624) by Robert Burton (spelling modernized): “I should have revised, corrected, and amended this Tract; but I had not (as I say) that happy leisure, no Amanuenses’ assistance, and was therefore enforced, as a Bear doth her whelps, to bring forth this confused lump, and had not time to lick it into form, as she doth her young ones, but even so to publish it, as it was first written, […].”
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