wallow

C2 FREQ #23105 ★☆☆☆☆

vi. 打滚, 沉迷, 颠簸 n. 打滚, 泥坑, 堕落

发音

UK /ˈwɒ.ləʊ/
其它

词形变化

wallower wallows 复数 wallows wallows 三单 wallowing 现在分词 wallowed 过去式 wallowed 过去分词 more wallow 比较级 most wallow 最高级

别名

waller

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An instance of wallowing.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    A kind of rolling walk.

    不及物
v. C2
  1. 1.

    To roll oneself about in something dirty, for example in mud.

    不及物

    Pigs wallow in the mud.

  2. 2.

    To move lazily or heavily in any medium.

    不及物
  3. 3.

    To immerse oneself in, to occupy oneself with, metaphorically.

    比喻 不及物

    She wallowed in her misery.

    With Smithers out of the picture I was free to wallow in my own crapulence.

  4. 4.

    To live or exist in filth or in a sickening manner.

    不及物
  5. 1.

    To fade, fade away, wither, droop; fail to flourish.

    英国 方言 不及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Tasteless, flat.

    方言 不及物

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词源

From Middle English walowen, walewen, walwen, welwen, from Old English wealwian (“to roll”), from Proto-West Germanic *walwōn, variant of *walwijan, from Proto-Germanic *walwijaną (“to roll”), from Proto-Indo-European *welw-, from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, wind, roll”). Cognate with Latin volvō (“roll, tumble”, verb).

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