maw

英 [mɔː]

美 [mɔː]

n. 无底洞; 吞噬一切的深渊; (动物的)胃，咽喉

复数：maws　

BNC.34365 / COCA.20963

牛津词典

noun

无底洞；吞噬一切的深渊
something that seems like a big mouth that swallows things up completely
（动物的）胃，咽喉
an animal's stomach or throat

N-COUNT (吞噬周围一切的)大嘴,大洞
If you describe something as amaw, you mean that it is like a big open mouth which swallows everything near it.
1. ...helping to chop wood to feed the red maw of the stove.
  帮忙把木头劈开，丢进炉子的大肚子里

noun

Not to worry, chirps Linda. That's just Satan's hungry maw.
用不着担心，琳达吭声说，只是撒旦饥饿的胃罢了。
I saw the opening maw of hell ( Herman Melville)
我看到地狱张开了无底洞（赫尔曼梅尔维尔）
She fears that the matter will simply be swallowed up by the maw of bureaucracy and that a decision will never be made.
她害怕这件事会被官僚机构所耽搁，永远得不到一个明断。
He felt the maw heavy and slippery in his hands and he slit it open.
他觉得鱼胃在手里重甸甸、滑溜溜的，就把它剖开来。
Decken's sifaka peers out from a jagged stone maw.
一只德肯狐猴从一处锯齿状的石头无底洞窥视。
I'm gonna cook me up some chitterlings and hog maw.
我要自己煮个猪肠跟猪肚来吃。
This will build Australia's biggest coal mine, as well as a490km ( 300-mile) railway to carry the black stuff to the coast, and thence to China's ravenous industrial maw.
这笔资金将建成澳洲最大的煤矿业，以及一条长达490公里的运煤铁路。澳洲的煤矿，将通过这条铁路，流向中国贪婪的工业之腹。
She disappeared once more in the open maw of the tower.
她再度消失在了高塔张开的巨口之中。
Maw and Meggins had a big factory and Herbert White worked there on the machinery.
莫和麦金森有一个大工厂，赫伯特·怀特在那儿作机器操作工。
I'm not a worm in your maw.
我不是你肚子里的蛔虫。