| 单词 | wallow |
| 释义 | wal·low I. intransitive verb 1. a. < took films of hippos as they wallowed in a mudhole > < too tired to do anything but wallow in a hot tub > b. < lay on the ground … wallowing and pitching and screaming — F.B.Gipson > c. (1) of a ship < the boats were wallowing in the waves … likely to be swamped — J.G.Gilkey > (2) < wallowed through a quarter mile of whitecaps — Franc Shor > < fleets … that wallow up and down the British coasts — Lamp > d. < dawn found the convoy wallowing around — Nathaniel Benchley > e. of an airplane < altitudes … at which fighters perform sluggishly, wallow, lose control — H.W.Baldwin > 2. < fat polysyllables … wallowed off his tongue — J.T.Farrell > < the launch heaved on a … slowly wallowing sea — Aldous Huxley > 3. < publicly wallowed in his infamies — Merle Miller > < the tendency to wallow in national self-absorption — Max Ascoli > < our gripes editor literally wallows in gripes — Jewelers' Circular-Keystone > especially < enjoyed sitting … and wallowing in the sensual melodies — Osbert Sitwell > 4. a. < nauseating baby talk in which some … books wallow — Margaret F. Kieran > < a family that wallows in money > b. < film stars who wallow in luxury > 5. < the economic catastrophe in which they were … wallowing — J.P.O'Donnell > < left to wallow in its ignorance — Lennox Robinson > transitive verb < wallowing these problems around in his mind — F.B.Gipson > Synonyms: < wind and sea had risen, and the little Torakina was rearing, plunging and wallowing as she took up the strain of her tow — R.S.Porteous > < a jeep came wallowing through the mud — Norman Mailer > < was wallowing in self-abasement — Times Literary Supplement > welter sometimes implies wallowing but more often implies a rolling or tossing helplessly, as at the mercy of a storm < the lifeboat and its passengers weltered in the sea for over a week > < the mass of the people were weltering in shocking poverty whilst a handful of owners wallowed in millions — G.B.Shaw > flounder stresses a helpless stumbling or struggling in an effort to make progress < crews floundering through the wet black muck — Marjory S. Douglas > < her feet grew heavier with each step and she floundered among the hollows like an odd, awkward fish — Audrey Barker > < many writers have floundered in one medium of speech while in another they have moved with ease — H.O.Taylor > grovel implies a crawling or wriggling close to the ground, as in abject fear, self-abasement, or complete degradation < fluttered to the ground and groveled on the sand in what appeared to be a kind of frenzy — E.A.Armstrong > < one moment he towered in imagination, the next he groveled in fear — G.D.Brown > < a mean, timeserving little man, groveling odiously before the wealthy people in the district who patronize his shop — Peter Forster > II. 1. < the apogee of earthly reward, a luxurious wallow in glamour — R.L.Taylor > 2. a. (1) < the rhino, huge and gray in the brush, almost white from the dried mud of the wallow — Ernest Hemingway > < elephants using the shallow stream bed for a wallow > (2) < great herds left the landscape pitted with wallows > — see bear wallow, buffalo wallow, hog wallow b. (1) < black wallows … where cars or wagons had been bogged down — L.C.Stevens > < an open field that was often a wallow of mud — Joseph Wechsberg > (2) 3. < the awful wallow that circumstance has plunged him into — John McCarten > III. Scotland |
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