1 VERB 咀嚼;嚼(碎) When you chew food, you use your teeth to break it up in your mouth so that it becomes easier to swallow. 咀嚼;嚼(碎)
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Be certain to eat slowly and chew your food extremely well. [VERB noun]
一定要慢慢吃,要细细咀嚼。
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Daniel leaned back on the sofa, still chewing on his apple. [V + at/on]
丹尼尔倚在沙发上,嘴里还在嚼着苹果。
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...the sound of his mother chewing and swallowing. [VERB]
他妈妈咀嚼、吞咽的声音
SYN munch, bite, grind, champ
2 VERB 嚼(口香糖、烟草) 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. 嚼(口香糖、烟草)
3 VERB (因为紧张)咬(嘴唇、指甲) If you chew your lips or your fingernails, you keep biting them because you are nervous. (因为紧张)咬(嘴唇、指甲)
4 VERB (人或动物)咬,啃 If a person or animal chews an object, they bite it with their teeth. (人或动物)咬,啃
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They pause and chew their pencils. [VERB noun]
他们停了下来,咬着铅笔。
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One owner left his pet under the stairs where the animal chewed through electric cables. [VERB prep.]
有个人把宠物放在楼梯下面,结果它在那儿把电线咬断了。
5 N-COUNT 口嚼糖 A chew is a sweet that you have to chew very hard before it becomes soft. 口嚼糖 [British]
6 PHRASE 试图承担力不能及的事 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. 试图承担力不能及的事
7 PHR-RECIP [VERB inflects, plural-n PHRASE, PHR with n] 闲聊;闲扯 If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way. 闲聊;闲扯 [informal]
8 to chew the cud→see: cud
Phrasal verbs: - chew outchew overchew up
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