maw
noun /mɔː/
/mɔː/
- (literary) something that seems like a big mouth that swallows something up completely
无底洞;吞噬一切的深渊 - They drove into the maw of the city.
他们驶进了城市的深渊。
- They drove into the maw of the city.
- (old-fashioned) an animal’s stomach or throat
(动物的)胃,咽喉
词源Old English maga (in the sense ‘stomach’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch maag and German Magen ‘stomach’.