| 单词 | drink |
| 释义 | drink I. transitive verb 1. a. < drink liquid > < don't sip it … but drink it like the divine draught it is — Margery Allingham > < other animals and birds stand by to drink its blood — Interpreter's Bible > < not a drop left. Who drank it up > < hurry, child, drink it down so that we can start > < ordered a Scotch and drank if off — Polly Adler > b. < drink up moisture > < the hot surface of the porous rock drank water like a sponge > broadly < drinking the thin sharp air > < atmospheric pressure then pushes air in, and your lungs can drink their fill — A.C.Fisher > < drank in eagerly the latest version of the news > c. obsolete < drink tobacco > 2. < will you drink our good luck > 3. a. < they drank the hours away > < a son-in-law who'd hit her and take her pension off her and drink it to the last penny — Ruth Park > b. < don't drink that fountain dry > < had drunk himself into the poorhouse or the grave — Ellen Glasgow > < how we love the unexpected turn, like drinking the devil under the table — Coulton Waugh > 4. < I just wanted to drink in all those monumental buildings, dynamic streets full of hurrying people — Dong Kingman > < while his ears drank in the wonderful story of the great mare — Gerald Beaumont > < young men passed his door, drank the enchantments of his conversation — Van Wyck Brooks > < as I walked along the river drinking in its beauty my soul expanded — Alexander MacDonald > 5. archaic intransitive verb 1. a. < we saw baby elephants drinking from their mothers — Stuart Cloete > b. < a desire to seek this inspiration at its source and drink from the living waters — V.L.Parrington > < Ben Franklin who drank deep from the stream in Europe and then democratized his knowledge — Roger Burlingame > < students can hardly be blamed for drinking deep of the culture which surrounds them — L.R.Ward > 2. < he drinks but does not smoke > specifically < to say that a man drinks means that he drinks too much — Joyce Cary > < began to drink in childhood and was an alcoholic by the time he was 18 — Times Literary Supplement > < obvious that he had been drinking — Louis Auchincloss > 3. < drink to the prosperity of the newest state > 4. obsolete II. 1. a. < I was thirsty and you gave me drink — Mt 25:35 (Revised Standard Version) > < natives satisfied my demands for food and drink > < the only available drink was the milk of coconuts > < for centuries before a very light beer was the common drink — G.E.Fussell > b. archaic c. < it was meat and drink to him to be the guardian of a secret — John Buchan > 2. a. < able to make a palatable drink from seawater > < a fermented drink made of water and honey > < my favorite among the carbonated soft drinks is ginger ale > b. < excessive indulgence in drink and tobacco — A.A.Bogomolets > < a drink-sodden derelict > < we speak of drink as if it were synonymous with alcoholic beverages and use such phrases as the drink traffic — O.A.Mendelsohn > 3. < taking a long drink from the spring > < it requires a barium drink, fluoroscopic examination, and several radiographs — X Rays & You > < give the dog a drink of water > < the plant needs a drink > 4. a. < that the old doctor is befuddled with drink all the time — Ellen Glasgow > < drink will be his ruination > < he took to drink when his business failed > < her didos will drive me to drink > b. Britain 5. < slipped off the rock and into the drink > especially < my regiment embarked, leaving me on this side of the drink > < off West Palm Beach, Florida, an air force crash boat pulled a pilot from the drink — Time > < burst into flames and went headlong into the drink — J.S.Childers > • - in drink |
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