SWALLOW - Translation from English into Chinese

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I. swallow¹ [ˈswɒləʊ] VB trans

1. swallow:

swallow: 吞下 tūnxia

swallow: 咽下 yànxia

2. swallow:

swallow: (忍气吞声地)接受 jiēshòu

swallow: 相信 xiāngxìn

II. swallow¹ [ˈswɒləʊ] VB intr

swallow: (紧张时)吞咽口水 tūnyàn kǒushuǐ

swallow¹ [ˈswɒləʊ]

swallow up: 吞没 tūnmò

swallow up: 耗尽 hàojìn

swallow² [ˈswɒləʊ] N

swallow: 燕子 yànzi

Present
I	swallow
you	swallow
he/she/it	swallows
we	swallow
you	swallow
they	swallow

Past
I	swallowed
you	swallowed
he/she/it	swallowed
we	swallowed
you	swallowed
they	swallowed

Present Perfect
I	have	swallowed
you	have	swallowed
he/she/it	has	swallowed
we	have	swallowed
you	have	swallowed
they	have	swallowed

Past Perfect
I	had	swallowed
you	had	swallowed
he/she/it	had	swallowed
we	had	swallowed
you	had	swallowed
they	had	swallowed

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Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

swallow up: 吞没 tūnmò

swallow sth whole: 把某物囫囵吞下

rise to [or swallow, take] the bait: (鱼)上钩 shànggōu

swallow one's pride [or put one's pride in one's pocket]: 忍气吞声 rěn qì tūn shēng

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

These fused bundles of several thousand large cilia are able to bite off pieces of prey that are too large to swallow whole almost always other ctenophores.

en.wikipedia.org

It appears some of the city's demands are too hard to swallow.

www.cjad.com

When the mountains finally dissolve in the seas, the volumes of seawater will brim over and the resulting tidal wave will swallow up cities and communities along the coastline.

www.ghanaweb.com

Then tongs were used to prise his mouth open after he refused to swallow excrement.

en.wikipedia.org

But it is not this big to swallow up mammals such as tree shrews or rats.

news.bbc.co.uk