swallow

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swallow的基本意思是“咽下”,指“喫”這個過程的第二堦段——“咽”。即將口中食物通過咽喉直入食道。有時可指“快喫”,而不是把食物慢慢嚼碎。引申爲“忍受”“不流露”。還可表示“吞沒”“掩蓋”“抓住”。
swallow在作“忍受”“抑制(情感)”解時,多指某人雖受痛苦與睏難,但以某方式接受了令人煩惱、令人無法忍受的痛苦與經歷。
swallow可用作不及物動詞,也可用作及物動詞。用作及物動詞時,接名詞、代詞作賓語。可用於被動結搆。

(THROAT) to cause food, drink, pills, etc. to move from your mouth into your stomach by using the muscles of your throat
(TAKE AWAY) If something large swallows (up) another thing, it makes it disappear or stop existing separately by making it part of itself.
(ACCEPT) to accept something without question or without expressing disagreement
(NOT EXPRESS) to not express or show something
(THROAT) an act of using the muscles of your throat, or the amount of something you move into your stomach from your mouth by using the muscles of your throat
(BIRD) a small bird with pointed wings and a tail with two points that flies quickly and catches insects to eat as it flies

If you swallow something, you cause it to go from your mouth down into your stomach.
Swallow is also a noun.
If you swallow, you make a movement in your throat as if you are swallowing something, often because you are nervous or frightened.
If someone swallows a story or a statement, they believe it completely.
to engulf or destroy as if by ingestion
A swallow is a kind of small bird with pointed wings and a forked tail.
a bitter pill to swallow&rarrsee pill