gum

英 [ɡʌm] 美 [ɡʌm]

• n. 牙床；树胶；齿龈；粘性物质
• v. 搞砸；用牙床嚼；以树胶粘合

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [P]牙龈

   firm pink flesh at the base of the teeth

2. [U]口香糖

   a hard transparent jelly-like sweet

3. [U]树胶

   sticky substance which oozes from certain trees, used for making glue

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. 胶合

   stick sth with sticky substance

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 牙床
2. 齿龈
3. 树胶
4. 橡胶树
5. 树脂
6. <美>橡胶套鞋
7. 眼屎
8. 口香糖
9. 橡皮糖
10. 橡胶
11. 胶粘合剂
12. 胶
13. 黏合剂
14. 上帝（用于咒诅、发誓）
15. 弹性树胶
16. 产树胶的树
17. 高统橡胶套鞋
18. 牙龈

v. 动词

1. <美俚>欺骗
2. 发粘
3. 粘合
4. 用胶（水）涂
5. 锉深（锯）齿
6. 黏合
7. 分泌树液
8. 分泌树胶
9. 结胶
10. 发黏
11. 在…涂树胶
12. 用树胶粘合
13. 用牙床咀嚼
14. 在…上涂胶
15. 用黏胶粘
16. 用黏胶将某物粘牢
17. 胶合
18. 涂以树胶
19. 使有粘性
20. 在…上涂树胶
21. 结胶
22. 变粘
23. 搞砸
24. 用牙床嚼

英英释义

Noun:

1. a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing

2. the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth

3. any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying

4. cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive

5. wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum

6. any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum

Verb:

1. cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum;

   "if you gum the tape it is stronger"
   

2. grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty;

   "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food"
   

3. become sticky

4. exude or form gum;

   "these trees gum in the Spring"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. He has some sore swellings on his gum.
   他牙床肿痛。
2. The tree is covered with gum.
   树上涂有树胶。
3. Heart attack patients usually have gum diseases!
   心脏病患者通常患有齿龈疾病。
4. We can stick these pictures into the book with gum.
   我们可用胶水把这几张画粘贴在书里。
5. He likes chewing gum.
   他喜欢嚼口香糖。

用作动词 (v.)

1. You'll gum up the jobs if you do it this way.
   你这样做会把事情搞砸。
2. It may well gum up the joint.
   最好把结合处粘上。
3. You can gum this piece of wood onto the wall.
   你能把这片木头粘到墙上去。
4. His pocket was all gummed up with candy.
   他的口袋全被糖粘住了。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. The dog bared its gums at me.
   狗龇着牙冲我叫。
2. Americans like to chew gum.
   美国人喜欢嚼口香糖。
3. We can stick these pictures into the book with gum.
   我们可用胶水把这几张画粘贴在书里。

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. My fingers gummed together as the sticky candy melted in my hand.
   粘糖在我手中化开了,把我的手指粘住了。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. Have you gummed the labels?
   你在标签上涂胶了吗?
2. The machine gummed the back of stamps.
   那台机器给邮票的背面上胶。

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

gum down〔on〕 (v.+adv.)

用胶黏合 fasten (paper) down with a sticky substance
gum sth ⇔ down〔on〕
This old stamp isn't sticky any more; I shall have to gum it down onto the envelope.

这张旧邮票的背面没黏性了,我得用胶把它粘在信封上。
If you haven't got the special fasteners to fix your photographs into the book, you'll have to gum them on.

如果没有专用的固定物把相片固定在相册中的话,你就得用胶水粘。

gum up (v.+adv.)

使(某事)出麻烦,弄糟(某事) cause trouble in; spoil (sth)

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• chew gum 咀嚼口香糖

名词+～

• bubble gum 泡泡糖
• chewing gum 口香糖

介词+～

• a stick of gum 一块口香糖
• stick sth with gum 用胶水把某物粘起来

用作动词 (v.)

～+副词

• gum down 用来黏合
• gum on 用胶黏合
• gum together 粘在一起
• gum up 粘住了

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. gum用作名词时意思是“树胶”“口香糖”,转化成动词时,指“(把某物)黏合起来”或“给…涂胶”。
2. gum可作及物动词,也可作不及物动词,作及物动词时,跟简单宾语。
3. gum的过去式和过去分词均为gummed。

词源解说

• ☆ 1300年左右进入英语，直接源自法语的gome，意为树胶。

近反义词

【近义词】

• glue 胶
• stick 手杖
• paste 面团
• bond 债券
• cement 水泥
• affix 使附于
• secretion 分泌
• exudate 流出物
• resin 树脂
• latex 胶乳
• juice 果汁
• adhesive 有粘性的
• epoxy resin [化]环氧树脂...
• superglue 超强力胶水
• mumble 喃喃而语
• gumwood 产胶树之木材...
• gum tree 桉树，产树胶的树...
• mucilage 粘质物
• chewing gum 口香糖
• gingiva 齿龈