suck
verb/sʌk/
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Verb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they suck | /sʌk/ /sʌk/ |
| he / she / it sucks | /sʌks/ /sʌks/ |
| past simple sucked | /sʌkt/ /sʌkt/ |
| past participle sucked | /sʌkt/ /sʌkt/ |
| -ing form sucking | /ˈsʌkɪŋ/ /ˈsʌkɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] suck something (+ adv./prep.) to take liquid, air, etc. into your mouth by using the muscles of your lips
吮吸；吸；咂；啜 - to suck the juice from an orange
吸橙子的汁 - She was noisily sucking up milk through a straw.
她正用吸管咕嘟咕嘟地喝牛奶。 - He sucked the blood from a cut on his finger.
他吸吮手指上伤口的血。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- noisily
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- to suck the juice from an orange
- [intransitive, transitive] to keep something in your mouth and pull on it with your lips and tongue
含在嘴里吸食 - suck at/on something The baby sucked at its mother's breast.
婴儿在吮吸母亲的奶。 - He sucked at the wound on his hand.
他吮了吮手上的伤口。 - She sucked on a mint.
她嘴里咂着一颗薄荷糖。 - suck something She sucked a mint.
她嘴里咂着一颗薄荷糖。 - Stop sucking your thumb!
别吮手指头！
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- noisily
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- suck at/on something The baby sucked at its mother's breast.
- [transitive] to take liquid, air, etc. out of something
抽吸；抽取 - suck something + adv./prep. The pump sucks air out through the valve.
气泵通过阀门把空气抽出去。 - suck something + adj. Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry.
蚜虫真能把一株植物吸干。 - The machine sucks up mud and stones from the bottom of the pond.
机器把泥巴和石头从池塘底部吸上来。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- noisily
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- suck something + adv./prep. The pump sucks air out through the valve.
- [transitive] suck somebody/something + adv./prep. to pull somebody/something with great force in a particular direction
（以巨大的力量）吸，吸引，使卷入 - The canoe was sucked down into the whirlpool.
划艇被卷进了漩涡。 - The mud had sucked him in up to his waist.
泥浆把他的腰部吸进去了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- noisily
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- The canoe was sucked down into the whirlpool.
- something sucks[intransitive] (slang) used to say that something is very bad
（表示厌恶）臭，恶心 - Their new album sucks.
他们的新专辑难听死了。
- Their new album sucks.
Word OriginOld English sūcan (verb), from an Indo-European imitative root; related to soak.
Idioms
milk/suck somebody/something dry
- to get from somebody/something all the money, help, information, etc. they have, usually giving nothing in return
榨干…的钱财；耗尽…的精力；掏尽…的信息 - By earning millions from racing and giving pennies back, the bookmakers are sucking the sport dry.
通过从比赛中赚取数百万美元并回馈几分钱，博彩公司正在榨干这项运动。
- By earning millions from racing and giving pennies back, the bookmakers are sucking the sport dry.
suck it and see
- (British English, informal) used to say that the only way to know if something is suitable is to try it
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suck it up
- (especially North American English, informal) to accept something bad and deal with it well, controlling your emotions
逆来顺受；忍气吞声
teach your grandmother to suck eggs
- (British English, informal) to tell or show somebody how to do something that they can already do well, and probably better than you can
教奶奶嘬鸡蛋；在能人面前逞强；班门弄斧