kiss
verbVerb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbspresent simple I / you / we / they kiss | |
he / she / it kisses | |
past simple kissed | |
past participle kissed | |
-ing form kissing |
- [intransitive, transitive]
to touch somebody with your lips as a sign of love or sexual desire or when saying hello or goodbye 親吻;接吻 They stood in a doorway kissing (= kissing each other). 他們站在門口親吻。 Do people in Britain kiss when they meet? 英國人見面時親吻嗎? - kiss somebody/something
Go and kiss your mother goodnight. 去親親你母親祝她晚安。 He bent forward to kiss her cheek. 他俯下身去親吻她的臉頰。 She kissed him on both cheeks. 她吻了吻他的雙頰。 He lifted the trophy up and kissed it. 他舉起獎杯吻了一下。
Extra ExamplesTopics Family and relationshipsb1He bent to kiss her again. 他又一次俯身吻了她。 He kissed her long and hard on the mouth. 他久久地深吻她的雙唇。 She let him kiss her lightly on the cheek. 她讓他輕輕吻了一下自己的臉頰。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- gently
- lightly
- lovingly
- …
- bend to
- lean over to
- stoop to
- …
- on
- kiss and cuddle
- kiss somebody full on the lips
- kiss somebody full on the mouth
- …
- [transitive] kiss something (literary)
to gently move or touch something 輕拂;輕觸
Word OriginOld English cyssan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kussen and German küssen.
Idioms
kiss and tell
a way of referring to somebody talking publicly, usually for money, about a past sexual relationship with somebody famous (通常爲了獲利)洩露與名人的私情
kiss somebody’s arse (British English)
(North American English kiss somebody’s ass, kiss ass)
- (taboo, slang)
to be very nice to somebody in order to persuade them to help you or to give you something A more polite way to express this is lick somebody’s boots.谄媚巴結某人;拍某人馬屁;奉承某人
kiss something better
kiss something goodbye | kiss goodbye to something