Old English spiwan "spew, spit," from Proto-Germanic *spiew- (cognates: Old Saxon spiwan, Old Norse spyja, Old Frisian spiwa, Middle Dutch spijen, Dutch spuwen, Old High German spiwan, German speien, Gothic spiewan "to spit"), from PIE *sp(y)eu- "to spew, spit," probably ultimately of imitative origin (cognates: Latin spuere; Greek ptuein, Doric psyttein; Old Church Slavonic pljuja, Russian plevati; Lithuanian spiauti). Also in Old English as a weak verb, speowan. Related: Spewed; spewing.
spew (n.)
"vomited matter," c. 1600, from spew (v.).
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. One of the ways to purify water is to make It'spew slowly from the soil.
凈化水的方法之一是讓它從土中慢慢地滲出.
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2. Cash machines that spew out money are usually the stuff of dreams.
現(xiàn)金出納機(jī)里的錢(qián),通常是夢(mèng)想.
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3. She must be purged and through this purgation her bowels shall spew.
她必須被凈化,通過(guò)這凈化,她的內(nèi)容物將會(huì)噴出.
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4. She must purged and through this purgation her bowels shall spew.
她必須被凈化,經(jīng)由這凈化,她的內(nèi)部將噴涌.
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5. Electric vehicles are quiet and spew no emissions.