bottle
noun /ˈbɒtl/
/ˈbɑːtl/
Idioms - enlarge image[countable] a glass or plastic container, usually round with straight sides and a narrow neck, used especially for storing liquids
（细颈）瓶子 - a wine/beer/milk/water bottle
葡萄酒/啤酒/牛奶/水瓶 - Put the top back on the bottle.
把瓶盖盖上。 - a plastic/glass bottle
塑料瓶/玻璃瓶 - To open the bottle, you twist and pull out the stopper.
要打开瓶子，你扭动并拔出塞子。 - He threw his message in a bottle into the North Sea.
他把装在瓶子里的信息扔进了北海。
Topics Cooking and eatinga1- She filled the bottle with water.
她给瓶子里灌了水。 - a crowd of youths throwing bottles and stones
一群扔瓶子和石头的年轻人 - Several bags of broken glass bottles were collected.
收集了几袋碎玻璃瓶。 - He threw his empty beer bottle on the ground.
他把空啤酒瓶扔在地上。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- empty
- broken
- …
- fill
- empty
- open
- …
- cap
- top
- opener
- …
- over a/the bottle
- bottle of
- be on the bottle
- hit the bottle
- take to the bottle
- …
- a wine/beer/milk/water bottle
- [countable](also bottlefulthe amount contained in a bottle/ˈbɒtlfʊl//ˈbɑːtlfʊl/)
一瓶（的量） - He drank a whole bottle of wine.
他喝了整整一瓶酒。 - He handed me a bottle of beer.
他递给我一瓶啤酒。
Topics Cooking and eatinga1- We discussed the problem over a bottle of wine.
我们一边喝葡萄酒，一边讨论那个问题。 - We washed the food down with a bottle of cheap red wine.
我们就着一瓶便宜的红酒干掉了这些吃的。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- empty
- broken
- …
- fill
- empty
- open
- …
- cap
- top
- opener
- …
- over a/the bottle
- bottle of
- be on the bottle
- hit the bottle
- take to the bottle
- …
- He drank a whole bottle of wine.
- the bottle[singular] (informal) alcoholic drink
酒 - After his wife died, he really hit the bottle (= started drinking heavily).
他妻子死后，他就酗酒了。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- empty
- broken
- …
- fill
- empty
- open
- …
- cap
- top
- opener
- …
- over a/the bottle
- bottle of
- be on the bottle
- hit the bottle
- take to the bottle
- …
- After his wife died, he really hit the bottle (= started drinking heavily).
- [countable, usually singular] a bottle used to give milk to a baby; the milk from such a bottle (used instead of mother’s milk)
（婴儿）奶瓶；奶瓶里的奶（非母乳） - It's time for her bottle.
该给她用奶瓶喂奶了。
- It's time for her bottle.
- [uncountable] (British English, informal) courage or confidence, for example to do something that is dangerous or unpleasant
勇气；信心 - It took a lot of bottle to do that.
那样做需要很大的勇气。 - I didn’t think she’d have the bottle to ask him.
我没想到她会有勇气问他。
- It took a lot of bottle to do that.
词源late Middle English: from Old French boteille, from medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of late Latin buttis ‘cask’.
Idioms
let the genie out of the bottle
- to do something that has a big effect and after which it is very difficult or impossible to go back to how things were before
瓶子： 做一些有很大影响的事情，之后很难或不可能回到以前的样子- When guns were invented, the genie was let out of the bottle.
当枪被发明时，精灵被放出瓶子。
- When guns were invented, the genie was let out of the bottle.