1
- a thing given or done as a concession of no great value to appease someone whose main concerns or demands are not being met（对某人的主要要求未予满足, 而用来安抚但价值不大的）抚慰品; 小礼品：
my agent telephones as a sop but never finds me work.
我的代理人给我打电话作为一种安慰, 但从未为我找到过工作。
2
- a piece of bread dipped in gravy, soup, or sauce（浸有肉汁、汤或调料吃的）面包片。
1
- (sopped, sopping)with obj.(sop something up) soak up liquid using an absorbent substance吸干（液汁）：
he used some bread to sop up the sauce.
他用一些面包吸干酱汁。
1.1
- archaic wet thoroughly; soak〈古〉湿透; 浸透。
词源
Old English soppian 'dip (bread) in liquid', sopp (noun), probably from the base of Old English sūpan 'sup'. Sense 1 （mid 17th cent.） alludes to the sop used by Aeneas on his visit to Hades to appease Cerberus.