1 B2 习语 中性
完全吞没或吸收某物,尤其是较小的东西被更大的东西占去或包住。
"The small independent bookshop was eventually swallowed up by a national retail chain."
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The city had swallowed up the old village completely.
— George Orwell, 'Coming Up for Air', 1939
可分离
完全吞没、吸收或消耗某物,使它消失或不再明显独立存在。
把某物完全包围并吸收,直到它消失或变成更大事物的一部分。
共 3 个含义,从最常见到最少见,按 CEFR 等级色彩标注。
完全吞没或吸收某物,尤其是较小的东西被更大的东西占去或包住。
"The small independent bookshop was eventually swallowed up by a national retail chain."
The city had swallowed up the old village completely.
— George Orwell, 'Coming Up for Air', 1939
把金钱、时间或资源全部耗尽。
"The renovation project swallowed up their entire savings and then some."
(字面义)指大空间、黑暗或自然力量:把人或物完全包围,使其从视线中消失。
"The fog swallowed up the lighthouse until it was completely invisible from the shore."
像大生物吃东西一样,把某物整个吞掉。
把某物完全包围并吸收,直到它消失或变成更大事物的一部分。
常用于较大的事物吞并较小的事物:公司、大海、人群、黑暗等把较小的东西吞没。画面感强,语气稍带戏剧性。字面义和比喻义中都很常见。
母语者最常搭配使用的单词。
最常用的五种时态形式。
来自 YouTube 真实视频中 "swallow up" 的用法片段 — 点击可在 Looplines 上观看。
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