suck
verbVerb Forms
Idioms Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they suck | |
| he / she / it sucks | |
| past simple sucked | |
| past participle sucked | |
| -ing form sucking |
- [transitive] suck something (+ adv./prep.)
to take liquid, air, etc. into your mouth by using the muscles of your lips 吮吸；吸；咂；啜 to suck the juice from an orange 吸橙子的汁 She was noisily sucking up milk through a straw. 她正用吸管咕嘟咕嘟地喝牛奶。 He sucked the blood from a cut on his finger. 他從手指上的傷口吸血。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- noisily
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to keep something in your mouth and pull on it with your lips and tongue 含在嘴裏吸食 - suck at/on something
The baby sucked at its mother's breast. 嬰兒在吮吸母親的奶。 He sucked at the wound on his hand. 他吮了吮手上的傷口。 She sucked on a mint. 她嘴裏咂着一顆薄荷糖。 - suck something
She sucked a mint. 她嘴裏咂着一顆薄荷糖。 Stop sucking your thumb! 别吮手指頭！
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- noisily
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to take liquid, air, etc. out of something 抽吸；抽取 - suck something + adv./prep.
The pump sucks air out through the valve. 氣泵通過閥門把空氣抽出去。 - suck something + adj.
Greenfly can literally suck a plant dry. 蚜蟲真能把一株植物吸幹。 The machine sucks up mud and stones from the bottom of the pond. 機器把泥巴和石頭從池塘底部吸上來。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- noisily
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- [transitive] suck somebody/something + adv./prep.
to pull somebody/something with great force in a particular direction （以巨大的力量）吸，吸引，使卷入 The canoe was sucked down into the whirlpool. 劃艇被卷進了漩渦。 The mud had sucked him in up to his waist. 泥漿把他吸進了腰部。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- noisily
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- something sucks[intransitive] (slang)
used to say that something is very bad （表示厭惡）臭，惡心 Their new album sucks. 他們的新專輯爛透了。
Word OriginOld English sūcan (verb), from an Indo-European imitative root; related to soak.
Idioms
milk/suck somebody/something dry
to get from somebody/something all the money, help, information, etc. they have, usually giving nothing in return 榨幹…的錢財；耗盡…的精力；掏盡…的信息 By earning millions from racing and giving pennies back, the bookmakers are sucking the sport dry. 通過從比賽中賺取數百萬美元並返還便士，博彩公司正在榨幹這項運動。
suck it and see
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used to say that the only way to know if something is suitable is to try it 試試看
suck it up
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to accept something bad and deal with it well, controlling your emotions 逆來順受；忍氣吞聲
teach your grandmother to suck eggs
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to tell or show somebody how to do something that they can already do well, and probably better than you can 教奶奶嘬雞蛋；在能人面前逞強；班門弄斧