| 英语单词 | swollen |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['swəʊlən] 美 ['swoʊlən] |
| 中文释义 | adj.肿大的;水涨的 动词swell的过去分词形式. |
| 英语例句 | (1) His eyelid is swollen. (2) His face was swollen (up) with toothache. (3) The doctors have taped up my swollen ankle. (4) Your ankle is badly swollen; I think the doctor ought to look at it. (5) The boy's eyes were swollen up with tears. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他眼皮肿了。 (2) 他的脸因牙痛而肿了起来。 (3) 医生们用绷带把我肿起的脚踝包扎起来。 (4) 你的脚腕子肿得很厉害,我认为得请医生看看了。 (5) 那小男孩的眼里充满了泪水。 |
| vocabulary简明 | When something's swollen, it's puffed up, rounded, and misshapen. If you've sprained your ankle, it's likely to be swollen and may look more like a grapefruit than the body part you know and love. |
| vocabulary扩展 | When something swells up, it's swollen, and that can be anything from knees and glands to pregnant bellies. You can also use swollen more poetically: you can describe someone with a big ego as having a swollen head. A stormy ocean with big, angry waves is a swollen sea. And a state with out-of-control spending has a swollen budget, inflated by special projects and other expenses that there’s not enough money to pay for. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](身体部位)肿胀的,肿起来的 If a part of your body is swollen, it is larger and rounder than normal, usually as a result of injury or illness.
2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](河水)上涨的,湍流的 A swollen river has more water in it and flows faster than normal, usually because of heavy rain. 3 Swollen is the past participle of swell. |
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