nibble
/ˈnɪb(ə)l/ 动词 C1中文： 轻咬、一点一点地吃
- To take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites, of (something). · The rabbit nibbled the lettuce.
- To lightly bite (a person or animal, or part of their body), especially in a loving or playful manner; to nip.
- To make (a hole in something) through small bites.
- To make (one's way) through or while taking small bites. · Before he realized it, he had nibbled his way through a whole bag of potato chips.· The cows nibbled their way across the field.
- Chiefly followed by into or to: to cause (something) to be in a certain state through small bites.
- Followed by away, off, etc.: to remove (something) through small bites.
- To remove (small pieces) from glass, tile, etc., with a tool; also, to remove small pieces from (glass, tile, etc.) with a tool.
- Chiefly followed by at, away, or on: to take a small, quick bite, or several of such bites; to eat (at frequent intervals) with small, quick bites. · The rabbit nibbled at the lettuce.
复数 nibble · He/she/it nibbles · 过去式 nibbled · 过去分词 nibbled · -ing形式 nibbling
动词形式
- 原形
- nibble
- He/she/it
- nibbles
- 过去式
- nibbled
- 过去分词
- nibbled
- -ing形式
- nibbling
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“And now which is which?” she said to herself, and nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!
After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.
“Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon them _this_ size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!” So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.
It was so large a house, that she did not like to go nearer till she had nibbled some more of the lefthand bit of mushroom, and raised herself to about two feet high: even then she walked up towards it rather timidly, saying to herself “Suppose it should be raving mad after all!
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