bask
verb/bɑːsk/
/bæsk/
[intransitive]Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they bask | /bɑːsk/ /bæsk/ |
| he / she / it basks | /bɑːsks/ /bæsks/ |
| past simple basked | /bɑːskt/ /bæskt/ |
| past participle basked | /bɑːskt/ /bæskt/ |
| -ing form basking | /ˈbɑːskɪŋ/ /ˈbæskɪŋ/ |
- bask (in something) to enjoy sitting or lying in the heat or light of something, especially the sun
晒太阳；取暖 - We sat basking in the warm sunshine.
我们坐着享受温暖的阳光。 - A cat was basking on the windowsill.
一只猫正在窗台上晒太阳。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBask is used with these nouns as the subject:- seal
Word Originlate Middle English (originally in the sense ‘bathe’): perhaps related to Old Norse batha ‘bathe’. - We sat basking in the warm sunshine.