英语词汇“to suck up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. To draw up into the mouth by suction. Also, †to drain the contents of.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > suck

to suck up1774

a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 1811 Ȝef a drope of blod..Falle vp-on þe corporas, Sowke hyt vp a-non-ryȝt.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Job xxxix. 33 His yong ones also sucke vp blood.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 188 The Toade bloweth them, and sucketh them [sc. bees] vp at their owne doores.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 261 Is it Physicall To walke vnbraced, and sucke vp the humours Of the danke Morning?

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. ix. §2. 236 Sucking up the breath.

1688 [see to suck out 3 at Phrasal verbs 2].

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 264 The elephant dips the end of its trunk into the water, and sucks up just as much as fills that great fleshy tube.

1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 207 The Sun-birds..subsist on the nectar of flowers, which they suck up.

2. To draw up as by suction or the creation of a vacuum; to absorb (liquid); to draw up (moisture) by heat; also, to draw up moisture from.

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the world > matter > liquid > action or process of absorbing > absorb [verb (transitive)]

to suck up1530

haust1542

soakc1555

to take up1597

absorb1604

imbibe1651

inhale1836

sop1888

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > draw up by suction, vacuum, or heat

to suck up1600

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 742/2 As the yerthe, or a sponge sucketh up water.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 89 The windes..haue suckt vp, from the Sea, Contagious fogges.

1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. B4^v The smoakie vapours sucked vp by the Sunne.

1630 M. Drayton Noahs Floud in Muses Elizium 106 By this the Sunne had suckt vp the vaste deepe.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 343 He rubs it [sc. the sponge] over..the Tympan, to Suck up the Water.

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 102 To prevent the formation of a vacuum in the rising bucket, or what is called by the miller ‘sucking up the tail-water’.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies ii. 49 The burning sun on the fells had sucked him up; but the damp heat of the woody crag sucked him up still more.

1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 71 The thread constantly sucks up the liquid.

†3. To absorb by a mental process; to drink in.

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the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > fix the attention, concentrate [verb (transitive)] > absorb

swallow1513

to swallow up1594

to suck up1602

immerge1611

immerse1790

to breathe in1816

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. vi. sig. K4^v May his stile..haue gentle presence, and the Sceans suckt vp By calme attention of choyce audience.

c1610–15 Life St. Wenefride in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 89 The holie virgin..sucked vp and exhaled her maisters..praises of her celestiall Loues excellencie.

4. To swallow up.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium > swallow up

swallowc1175

to swallow up1526

devour1555

engulf1555

abyss1596

involve1605

flapdragona1616

to suck upa1616

ingurgitatea1620

absorbeate1623

exorbeate1623

entomba1631

gulf1807

begulf1809

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. i. 22 Roaring Waters, With Sands that will not beare your Enemies Boates, But sucke them vp to' th' Top-mast.

1650 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) II. 101 This good service they haue don to his Majestie after shokinge up the sweete and substance of his Catholicke subjects of Monster.

1795 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) III. 52 Britain will suck up that commerce which formerly flowed to Amsterdam.

1869 J. R. Lowell Dara v Wise Dara's province, year by year, Like a great sponge, sucked wealth and plenty up.

5. intransitive. to suck up to, to curry favour with; to toady to. (Also without to.) slang (originally Schoolboy slang). Cf. sucker-up n. at sucker n. Compounds 2.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour with [verb (transitive)]

flatter1340

to claw the back ofc1394

to pick a thank (also thanks)c1422

clawc1425

to claw by the sleeve1509

to claw by the backa1542

fawna1568

to make or pay (one's) court to1590

adulate1612

hug1622

sycophant1637

to make up to1701

to whip it in with1702

cultivate1706

incense1708

to wheedle in with1726

to grandfather up1747

slaver1794

toad1802

to play up to ——1809

nut1819

toady1827

bootlick1846

to suck up to1860

lickspittle1886

jolly1890

bum-suck1918

arse-lick1919

to cosy up to1937

brown-nose1948

ass-kiss1951

ass-lick1962

love-bomb1976

1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Suck up, ‘to suck up to a person’, to insinuate oneself into his good graces.

1876 ‘A. Thomas’ Blotted Out xvi I can't suck up to snobs because they happen to be in power and to have patronage.

1899 E. Phillpotts Human Boy 203 Fowle sucked up to him..and buttered him at all times.

1905 H. A. Vachell Hill vi ‘Afterwards’, John continued, ‘I tried to suck-up. I asked you to come and have some food.’

1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xl. 719 We hear how you suck up to the Yankees..to get money out of them.

1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. iv. 261 I imagine she's been used to bossing things rather in naval circles, with flag-lieutenants trotting round and young officers on-the-make sucking up to her.

1957 R. K. Merton Social Theory (rev. ed.) ii.viii. 270 Data in The American Soldier on what was variously called brown-nosing, bucking for promotion, and sucking up.

1963 D. Ogilvy Confessions Advertising Man (1964) i. 15 I despise toadies who suck up to their bosses; they are generally the same people who bully their subordinates.

1966 A. Sachs Jail Diary xxi. 187 I suck up to the police... I don't actually crawl to them but I am so eager to win their approval.

1979 J. Cooper Class (1980) vi. 131 Harry Stow-Crat also has to suck up to neighbouring farmers in case he should want to hunt over their land.

单词	to suck up
释义	> as lemmas to suck up to suck up 1. transitive. To draw up into the mouth by suction. Also, †to drain the contents of. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > processes or manners of eating > eat via specific process [verb (intransitive)] > suck to suck up1774 a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 1811 Ȝef a drope of blod..Falle vp-on þe corporas, Sowke hyt vp a-non-ryȝt. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Job xxxix. 33 His yong ones also sucke vp blood. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 188 The Toade bloweth them, and sucketh them [sc. bees] vp at their owne doores. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 261 Is it Physicall To walke vnbraced, and sucke vp the humours Of the danke Morning? View more context for this quotation 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. ix. §2. 236 Sucking up the breath. 1688 [see to suck out 3 at Phrasal verbs 2]. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 264 The elephant dips the end of its trunk into the water, and sucks up just as much as fills that great fleshy tube. 1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 207 The Sun-birds..subsist on the nectar of flowers, which they suck up. 2. To draw up as by suction or the creation of a vacuum; to absorb (liquid); to draw up (moisture) by heat; also, to draw up moisture from. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > action or process of absorbing > absorb [verb (transitive)] to suck up1530 haust1542 soakc1555 to take up1597 absorb1604 imbibe1651 inhale1836 sop1888 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > draw up by suction, vacuum, or heat to suck up1600 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 742/2 As the yerthe, or a sponge sucketh up water. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 89 The windes..haue suckt vp, from the Sea, Contagious fogges. View more context for this quotation 1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. B4^v The smoakie vapours sucked vp by the Sunne. 1630 M. Drayton Noahs Floud in Muses Elizium 106 By this the Sunne had suckt vp the vaste deepe. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 343 He rubs it [sc. the sponge] over..the Tympan, to Suck up the Water. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 102 To prevent the formation of a vacuum in the rising bucket, or what is called by the miller ‘sucking up the tail-water’. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies ii. 49 The burning sun on the fells had sucked him up; but the damp heat of the woody crag sucked him up still more. 1877 T. H. Huxley Physiography 71 The thread constantly sucks up the liquid. †3. To absorb by a mental process; to drink in. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > fix the attention, concentrate [verb (transitive)] > absorb swallow1513 to swallow up1594 to suck up1602 immerge1611 immerse1790 to breathe in1816 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. vi. sig. K4^v May his stile..haue gentle presence, and the Sceans suckt vp By calme attention of choyce audience. c1610–15 Life St. Wenefride in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 89 The holie virgin..sucked vp and exhaled her maisters..praises of her celestiall Loues excellencie. 4. To swallow up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop > in a surrounding medium > swallow up swallowc1175 to swallow up1526 devour1555 engulf1555 abyss1596 involve1605 flapdragona1616 to suck upa1616 ingurgitatea1620 absorbeate1623 exorbeate1623 entomba1631 gulf1807 begulf1809 a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. i. 22 Roaring Waters, With Sands that will not beare your Enemies Boates, But sucke them vp to' th' Top-mast. View more context for this quotation 1650 in J. T. Gilbert Contemp. Hist. Ireland (1880) II. 101 This good service they haue don to his Majestie after shokinge up the sweete and substance of his Catholicke subjects of Monster. 1795 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) III. 52 Britain will suck up that commerce which formerly flowed to Amsterdam. 1869 J. R. Lowell Dara v Wise Dara's province, year by year, Like a great sponge, sucked wealth and plenty up. 5. intransitive. to suck up to, to curry favour with; to toady to. (Also without to.) slang (originally Schoolboy slang). Cf. sucker-up n. at sucker n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour with [verb (transitive)] flatter1340 to claw the back ofc1394 to pick a thank (also thanks)c1422 clawc1425 to claw by the sleeve1509 to claw by the backa1542 fawna1568 to make or pay (one's) court to1590 adulate1612 hug1622 sycophant1637 to make up to1701 to whip it in with1702 cultivate1706 incense1708 to wheedle in with1726 to grandfather up1747 slaver1794 toad1802 to play up to ——1809 nut1819 toady1827 bootlick1846 to suck up to1860 lickspittle1886 jolly1890 bum-suck1918 arse-lick1919 to cosy up to1937 brown-nose1948 ass-kiss1951 ass-lick1962 love-bomb1976 1860 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang (ed. 2) Suck up, ‘to suck up to a person’, to insinuate oneself into his good graces. 1876 ‘A. Thomas’ Blotted Out xvi I can't suck up to snobs because they happen to be in power and to have patronage. 1899 E. Phillpotts Human Boy 203 Fowle sucked up to him..and buttered him at all times. 1905 H. A. Vachell Hill vi ‘Afterwards’, John continued, ‘I tried to suck-up. I asked you to come and have some food.’ 1936 M. Mitchell Gone with the Wind xl. 719 We hear how you suck up to the Yankees..to get money out of them. 1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited ii. iv. 261 I imagine she's been used to bossing things rather in naval circles, with flag-lieutenants trotting round and young officers on-the-make sucking up to her. 1957 R. K. Merton Social Theory (rev. ed.) ii.viii. 270 Data in The American Soldier on what was variously called brown-nosing, bucking for promotion, and sucking up. 1963 D. Ogilvy Confessions Advertising Man (1964) i. 15 I despise toadies who suck up to their bosses; they are generally the same people who bully their subordinates. 1966 A. Sachs Jail Diary xxi. 187 I suck up to the police... I don't actually crawl to them but I am so eager to win their approval. 1979 J. Cooper Class (1980) vi. 131 Harry Stow-Crat also has to suck up to neighbouring farmers in case he should want to hunt over their land. extracted from suckv. < as lemmas
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