gulps

英 [ɡʌlps]

美 [ɡʌlps]

v.  狼吞虎咽; 大口吞咽; 匆匆吞下; (因害怕或惊讶而)倒吸气; 深呼吸; 喘大气; 大口大口地吸气
n.  吞饮的量; 一大口; 吞咽; 吸入
gulp的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 吞食；大口吃；狼吞虎咽
  If yougulpsomething, you eat or drink it very quickly by swallowing large quantities of it at once.
  1. She quickly gulped her tea.
     她将茶一饮而尽。
• VERB （因紧张或兴奋）倒吸气
  If yougulp, you swallow air, often making a noise in your throat as you do so, because you are nervous or excited.
  1. I gulped, and then proceeded to tell her the whole story...
     我倒吸了一口气，接着把事情的原委都讲给她听。
  2. 'I'm sorry,' he gulped.
     “很抱歉，”他倒吸了一口气说。
• VERB 大口大口地吸（气）
  If yougulpair, you breathe in a large amount of air quickly through your mouth.
  1. She gulped air into her lungs...
     她大口大口地吸着气。
  2. He slumped back, gulping for air.
     他一屁股坐了回去，大口地喘着气。
• N-COUNT 吞咽的量；一大口
  Agulp ofair, food, or drink, is a large amount of it that you swallow at once.
  1. I took in a large gulp of air...
     我深吸了一大口气。
  2. When his whisky came he drank half of it in one gulp.
     威士忌端上来后，他一口气就喝掉了一半。

双语例句

• Whereas the French sip, Scotland, like the rest of Britain, gulps.
  法国人充其量也就抿，苏格兰人可是跟其他英国人一样，来灌的。
• He often gulps down a sob.
  他经常忍气吞声地生活。
• A corrupt witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked gulps down evil.
  匪徒作见证戏笑公平。恶人的口吞下罪孽。
• A man walks into a bar, orders a drink, gulps it down, looks in his pocket then orders another one.
  一个男人走进一个酒吧，点一杯饮料。一口气喝完了，然后看了看口袋又点了另一杯。
• She went hastily up the two short blocks to Peachtree street, breathing the unfouled air in as deep gulps as her tightly laced corset would permit.
  她急急忙忙横过两条马路向桃树街走去，大口大口呼吸着新鲜空气，将那件花边胸衣胀得一鼓一鼓的。
• She encourages us to eat in moderation and without desperate gulps, to not extinguish the sacred fires of our bodies by dumping too much food into our digestive tracts too fast.
  她鼓励我们吃得适度，不大口大口吃，勿将太多食物迅速扔进消化道中，以免浇熄体内的神圣之火。
• Then indeed Michael began to cry, and even John could speak in gulps only, for they knew Hook's reputation.
  于是迈克尔真的哭了起来，就连约翰说话也咽着气了，因为他们久闻胡克的恶名了。
• He often gulps down full glasses of liquor.
  他经常一口气干下整杯的酒。
• So I took more. I swallowed two gulps and sometimes three, with no water.
  于是，我加大剂量，喝两大口，有时甚至三大口，还不搀水。
• He stopped at last and thankfully breathed in gulps of cold Montana air.
  他终于停了下来，欣慰地大口大口地吸着蒙大拿州寒冷的空气。