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chew
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vt.& vi.

n.

  • 易混淆的单词：Chew  

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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. 

  • Be certain to eat slowly and chew your food extremely well...

    一定要慢慢吃，要细细咀嚼。

  • Daniel leaned back on the sofa, still chewing on his apple.

    丹尼尔倚在沙发上，嘴里还在嚼着苹果。

  • ...the sound of his mother chewing and swallowing.

    他妈妈咀嚼、吞咽的声音

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. 

  • One girl was chewing gum...

    一个女孩在嚼口香糖。

  • He chews tobacco constantly.

    他不停地嚼烟草。

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. 

  • He chewed his lower lip nervously.

    他紧张地咬着下嘴唇。

4. VERB (人或动物)咬，啃 If a person or animal chews an object, they bite it with their teeth. 

  • They pause and chew their pencils...

    他们停了下来，咬着铅笔。

  • One owner left his pet under the stairs where the animal chewed through electric cables.

    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. 

  • ...a selection of penny chews.

    各式各样可供选择的便宜口嚼糖

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. 

  • Micky is used to handling dodgy deals but this time fears he may have bitten off more than he can chew.

    米基本来是善于处理棘手交易的，可是这回他可能会力有不逮。

7. PHR-RECIP 闲聊;闲扯 If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way. 

  • We'd been lounging around, chewing the fat for a couple of hours.

    我们东游西逛，瞎扯了两三个钟头。

8.   to chew the cud→see: cud; 
相关词组：
chew out  chew over  chew up 
Noun

1. a wad of something chewable as tobacco

2. biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow

Verb

1. chew (food);

  • "He jawed his bubble gum"
  • "Chew your food and don't swallow it!"
  • "The cows were masticating the grass"
1. Americans like to chew gum.
美国人喜欢嚼口香糖。

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2. Chew your food point by point.
食物要一点一点地嚼。

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3. Chew your food well before you swallow it.
食物在吞咽前要仔细咀嚼。

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4. Don't bite off more than you can chew.
不要贪多嚼不烂。

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5. The greens are full of fibres that you can't chew.
这菜筋多嚼不烂。

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6. This candy is so hard that no one can chew it.
这种糖太硬，没人嚼得动。

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7. We'll chew on your suggestion.
我们将仔细考虑你的建议。

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8. You should chew over this thing.
你应当好好思量这件事。

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