sip

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 sĭp

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small mouthful of drink.
    — So order one more coffee / Have another sip of wine / We can go on talking / Until it's disco closing time
  2. An event at which people drink alcohol in small, usually subintoxicating amounts.
    — Earl is always a good time. His appearance at parties, whether it's a smart cocktail sip or a basement gig, is mandatory.
动词 v.
  1. To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time. transitive
    — He held out to me a bowl of steaming broth, that filled the room with a savour sweeter, ten thousand times, to me than every rose and lily of the world; yet would not let me drink it at a gulp, but made me sip it with a spoon like any baby.
  2. To drink a small quantity. intransitive
    — [She] rais'd it to her mouth with sober grace; / Then, sipping, offered to the next in place.
  3. To taste the liquor of; to drink out of. transitive
    — They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
  4. Alternative form of seep. Scotland,US,alt-of,alternative,dated
  5. To consume slowly. figuratively,transitive
    — Sales of lightbulbs which sip electricity, and whose increased cost in the shops is easily paid for over their lifetime, used to double every year; in 1990/1991, they leapt sevenfold.

词形变化

sips plural sips present,singular,third-person sipping participle,present sipped participle,past sipped past

词汇关系

近义词
nurse
衍生词
sipful latte-sipping paint and sip resip sip and puff sip-and-see sip-and-see party sippable sippingly sippy unsipped
相关词
seep siphon

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin. Compare with Low German sippen (“to sip”). Possibly from a variant of Middle English suppen (“to drink, sip”) (see sup) or perhaps from Old English sipian, sypian (“to take in moisture, soak, macerate”), from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to drip, trickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, trickle, leak out”). Compare also Old High German supfen (“to drink, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (“to sip, intake”).
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin. Compare with Low German sippen (“to sip”). Possibly from a variant of Middle English suppen (“to drink, sip”) (see sup) or perhaps from Old English sipian, sypian (“to take in moisture, soak, macerate”), from Proto-Germanic *sipōną (“to drip, trickle”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyb- (“to pour out, trickle, leak out”). Compare also Old High German supfen (“to drink, sip”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (“to sip, intake”).
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