swim

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ldoce_325_gswim1 /swɪm/ S3 verb (past tensepst swam /swæm/, past participlepp swum /swʌm/, present participle swimming)

1 move through water 在水中移动 [intransitiveI, transitiveT]DSS to move yourself through water using your arms and legs 游水，游泳

swim in

We swam in the chilly water.

我们在冰冷的水里游泳。

swim around/across etc

She could swim across the lake.

她能游到湖对岸去。

5 Let’s go swimming this afternoon.

今天下午我们游泳去吧。

kids learning to swim the backstroke

学习仰泳的孩子们

She was the first woman to swim the Channel.

她是第一个游过英吉利海峡的女性。

2 water animals 水中的动物 [intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] when fish, ducks etc swim, they move around the water using their tails and fins, their feet etc 〔鱼、鸭子等在水里〕游动

Tropical fish swam slowly around in the tank.

热带鱼在鱼缸里慢慢地游来游去。

3 not thinking/seeing properly 思维/视觉不清 [intransitiveI]

a) CONFUSEDBALANCEif your head swims, you start to feel confused or that everything is spinning around 发晕，眩晕

My head was swimming after looking at that screen all day.

我整天盯着那屏幕，头都晕了。

b) CLEAR/EASY TO SEEif something you are looking at swims, it seems to be moving around, usually because you are ill, tired, or drunk 〔生病、疲劳或喝醉时眼前物体〕晃动，旋转

The numbers swam before my eyes.

那些数字在我眼前晃动。

4 be swimming in something LIQUIDto be covered by a lot of liquid 浸 [泡]在某物里

potatoes swimming in thick gravy

浸在浓稠肉汁里的马铃薯

Examples from the Corpus

be swimming in something• The only Italian food we'd ever heard about was a bowl of spaghetti swimming in tomato sauce.

5. swim against the tide/current etc DIFFERENTto do or say things which are different from what most people do or say, because you do not mind being different 反潮流，不随大溜 OPP swim with the tide

Examples from the Corpus

swim against the tide/current etc• There s no point in you tryin to swim against the tide now, is there?• Light given out by distant galaxies has to swim against the tide of expansion to get to us.

→ sink or swim at sink1(15)

Examples from the Corpus

swim• In the afternoons they sunbathed and swam.• You swim a few laps, lie in the sun, eat a burger.• Just as he was beginning to get worried in case she had gone too far, she turned and swam back.• Dad swims fifty laps in the pool every morning.• For a moment, tears swam in his eyes and he fought for control.• To swim in it is dangerous, unnecessary and probably obscene.• Slowly and carefully I swam round the dark walls of the castle.• I don't like swimming the breaststroke.• I didn't learn to swim until I was ten years old.• Steinkamp swam up to it and stuck her thumbs in her ears, seemingly making a childish face at it.

swim around/across etc• Even birds need toys - fish must have some plants and rocks to swim around.• He swam across the lake towards the silted-up island in the middle where a pair of swans nested.• Silently, he went down into the water and swam across the moat.• People remembered his slogans, his grand speeches, his swim across the open river as an old man.• Six weeks earlier he had been able to swim around the raft wearing shorts and a shirt.• With powerful strokes, he swam across to the pillar, which was still elevated from my own adventure.• Suddenly, I was in a strange world where schools of curious small, yellow fish swam around us and between us.• For hours the magician swam around, with the normally chatty parrot perched silently on his shoulder.

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