| 单词 | chew |
| 释义 | chew (tʃuː ) Word forms: chews , chewing , chewed 1. verb B2 When you chew food, you use your teeth to break it up in your mouth so that it becomes easier to swallow. Be certain to eat slowly and chew your food extremely well. [VERB noun] Daniel leaned back on the sofa, still chewing on his apple. [V + at/on] ...the sound of his mother chewing and swallowing. [VERB] Synonyms: munch, bite, grind, champ 2. verb B2 If you chew gum or tobacco, you keep biting it and moving it around your mouth to taste the flavour of it. You do not swallow it. One girl was chewing gum. [VERB noun] He chews tobacco constantly. [VERB noun] 3. verb If you chew your lips or your fingernails, you keep biting them because you are nervous. He chewed his lower lip nervously. [VERB noun] 4. verb If a person or animal chews an object, they bite it with their teeth. They pause and chew their pencils. [VERB noun] One owner left his pet under the stairs where the animal chewed through electric cables. [VERB preposition] 5. countable noun A chew is a sweet that you have to chew very hard before it becomes soft. [British] ...a selection of penny chews. 6. to bite off more than one can chew phrase If you say that someone has bitten off more than they can chew, you mean that they are trying to do something which is too difficult for them. He bought the old hotel but soon realized he had bitten off more than he could chew. 7. chew the fat reciprocal phrase [VERB inflects, plural-noun PHRASE, PHR with n] If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way. [informal] We'd been lounging around, chewing the fat for a couple of hours. 8. to chew the cud phrase When animals such as cows or sheep chew the cud, they slowly chew their partly-digested food over and over again in their mouth before finally swallowing it. The cattle also seem more contented and are chewing the cud longer because they have more fibre. Phrasal verbs: chew out phrasal verb If you chew someone out, you tell them off in a very angry way. [informal] He chewed out the player, who apologized the next time I saw him. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] When Tom got back to Dallas, Perot called him over and chewed him out. [VERB noun PARTICLE] chew over phrasal verb If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it. He tends to chew things over too much in his mind. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Goldstone chewed over the idea further. [VERB PARTICLE noun (not pronoun)] chew up 1. phrasal verb If you chew food up, you chew it until it is completely crushed or soft. I took one of the pills and chewed it up. [VERB noun PARTICLE] 2. phrasal verb If something is chewed up, it has been destroyed or damaged in some way. [informal] Every spring the ozone is chewed up, and the hole appears. [be VERB-ed PARTICLE] ...rebels who are now chewing up Government-held territory. [VERB PARTICLE noun] This town is notorious for chewing people up and spitting them out. [VERB noun PARTICLE] Idioms: chew the fat to speak with someone in an informal and friendly way about things that interest you We lounged around, chewing the fat for a couple of hours. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers bite off more than you can chew to try to do too much Don't bite off more than you can chew simply because everything is going so well. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: chew gum One chewed gum while the other had no gum and kept their jaws still. The Sun (2010) Translations: Chinese: 嚼 Japanese: 噛む |
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