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 亲吻;接吻 They stood in a doorway kissing (= kissing each other). 他们站在门口亲吻。 Do people in Britain kiss when they meet? 英国人见面时亲吻吗? - kiss somebody/something
Go and kiss your mother goodnight. 去亲亲你母亲祝她晚安。 He bent forward to kiss her cheek. 他俯下身去亲吻她的脸颊。 She kissed him on both cheeks. 她吻了吻他的双颊。 He lifted the trophy up and kissed it. 他举起奖杯吻了一下。
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. 他久久地深吻她的双唇。 She let him kiss her lightly on the cheek. 她让他轻轻吻了一下自己的脸颊。
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 轻拂;轻触
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 (通常为了获利)泄露与名人的私情
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.谄媚巴结某人;拍某人马屁;奉承某人
kiss something better
kiss something goodbye | kiss goodbye to something