英语词汇“suckle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

suckle

/ˈsʌk(ə)l

verb [with object]

1Feed (a baby or young animal) from the breast or teat: a mother pig was suckling a huge litter...

Two Madonna-and-childs, reversed out in a stark negative: the bounteous white woman, bereft of her own baby, suckling the child of a dying African.
Informal wet-nursing ranges from the occasional nursing of another woman's child to a private arrangement to suckle a baby whose mother is ailing or who has died.
But virtually all begging street urchins, maimed men, mothers suckling infants and other ragged destitutes are Tibetan, not Chinese.

Synonyms

breastfeed, feed, nurse

archaic give suck to

1.1 [no object] (Of a baby or young animal) feed by sucking the breast or teat: the infant’s biological need to suckle...

‘It's impossible to forgive,’ she said, her infant baby suckling at her breast.
Images of Charity personified often show a child suckling at each of her breasts.
The strong influence of Italian neo-realism is further subverted by such outlandish sights as a boy suckling at a cow's udder and Pedro hurling an egg directly at the camera.

Origin

Late Middle English: probably a back-formation from suckling.

单词	suckle
释义	suckle /ˈsʌk(ə)l / verb [with object] 1Feed (a baby or young animal) from the breast or teat: a mother pig was suckling a huge litter... Two Madonna-and-childs, reversed out in a stark negative: the bounteous white woman, bereft of her own baby, suckling the child of a dying African. Informal wet-nursing ranges from the occasional nursing of another woman's child to a private arrangement to suckle a baby whose mother is ailing or who has died. But virtually all begging street urchins, maimed men, mothers suckling infants and other ragged destitutes are Tibetan, not Chinese. Synonyms breastfeed, feed, nurse archaic give suck to 1.1 [no object] (Of a baby or young animal) feed by sucking the breast or teat: the infant’s biological need to suckle... ‘It's impossible to forgive,’ she said, her infant baby suckling at her breast. Images of Charity personified often show a child suckling at each of her breasts. The strong influence of Italian neo-realism is further subverted by such outlandish sights as a boy suckling at a cow's udder and Pedro hurling an egg directly at the camera. Origin Late Middle English: probably a back-formation from suckling. Rhymes buckle, chuckle, knuckle, muckle, ruckle, truckle
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