swill
vt. 冲洗, 痛饮 vi. 大口地喝, 冲刷 n. 涮, 冲洗, 痛饮, 泔脚
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1.
A mixture of solid and liquid food scraps fed to pigs etc; especially kitchen waste for this purpose.
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泔水
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2.
Any disgusting or distasteful liquid.
可数 不可数 引申义I cannot believe anyone could drink this swill.
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3.
Anything disgusting or worthless.
可数 比喻 不可数 引申义This new TV show is a worthless load of swill.
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4.
A large quantity of liquid drunk at one swallow.
可数 非正式 不可数He took a swill of his drink and tried to think of words.
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A badly-thrown pass.
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Inexpensive beer or alcohol.
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To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess.
及物1944, Rutherford George Montgomery (as Al Avery), A Yankee Flier in Italy, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 1, p. 9, O’Malley answered calmly as he shoved half of the pie into his mouth. “Stop! Stop—swilling that pie!” the colonel roared.
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To wash (something) by flooding with water.
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To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion.
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To move around or over a surface.
不及物2000, Hanif Kureishi, “Goodbye, Mother” in Granta 69, Spring 2000, p. 119, The smell, the internal workings of every human being, the shit, blood, mucus swilling in a bag of flesh, made him mad. He felt he was wearing the glasses the stage hypnotist had given people, but instead of seeing them naked, he saw their inner physiology, their turbulence, their death.
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To inebriate; to fill with drink.
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To feed swill to (pigs).
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词源
From Middle English swilen (“to wash; swirl; wash away”), from Old English swillan, swilian (“to wash; wash down; swill; gargle”), from Proto-West Germanic *swilljan, from Proto-Germanic *swiljaną (“to gulp, swallow”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to drink, gulp, swallow”). Related to swallow.
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