| [/swɪm; swɪm/] v (-mm-; pt swam [/swm; swæm/], pp swum [/swʌm; swʌm/]) 用法:
1 (a) [I, Ipr, Ip] move the body through water by using arms, legs, fins, tail, etc游水; 游泳:
Fish swim. 鱼会游水. *
Let's go swimming. 咱们去游泳吧. *
swim on one's back 仰泳 *
When the ship sank we had to swim for it, ie save ourselves by swimming. 船沉时我们不得不游泳逃生. *
swim underwater, upstream, across, ashore 潜泳、 逆水而游、 游泳横渡、 游上岸.
(b) [Tn] use particular movements to do this 用某姿势游泳:
swim breast-stroke, back-stroke, crawl, etc 游蛙泳、 仰泳、 爬泳等. 用法:
2
(a) [Tn, Tn.pr] cover a distance by swimming 游（一段距离）:
swim a mile, race, river 游一英里、 比赛游泳、 游过河 *
swim two lengths of the pool 在游泳池中游一个来回 *
swim the Channel 泅渡英吉利海峡.
(b) [no passive 不用於被动语态:
Tn.pr, Tn.p] cause (an animal) to do this 使（动物）游水:
She swam her horse across (the river). 她使马游水过河. 用法:
3 (usu in the continuous tenses 通常用於进行时态) (a) [I, Ipr] ~ (with sth) be flooded or overflowing (with liquid) 被淹; 溢:
Her eyes were swimming (with tears). 她泪眼汪汪. *
The bathroom floor was swimming with water. 浴室的地面上都是水.
(b) [Ipr] ~ in sth be covered with liquid as if floating in it 浸於液体中; 泡:
meat swimming in gravy 浸在浓汁中的肉. 用法:
4 (a) [I, Ipr] seem to be whirling 似在旋转:
The room swam before his eyes/around him. 他感觉房间好像在他眼前[在他周围]旋转.
(b) [I] have a dizzy feeling 感到眩晕; 发晕:
The whisky made his head swim. 他喝了威士忌感到头晕目眩. *
My brain swam at the complexity of the calculations. 这种复杂的计算搞得我头昏眼花. 用法:
5 (idm 习语) sink or swim => sink1. swim 2
n 用法:
1 action or period of swimming 游泳:
go for a swim 去游泳 *
I only had two swims last year. 去年我只游泳两次. 用法:
2 (idm 习语) in/out of the `swim (infml) aware or involved/not aware or involved in what is going on 了解或介入[不了解或不介入]当前情况:
Although I'm retired, voluntary work keeps me in the swim (of things). 我虽已退休, 但仍做些义务工作, 以便了解当前的情势. |