- 1/sɪp/啜飲；小口喝
To sip something is to drink it slowly, taking small amounts at a time, instead of drinking it all at once - like sipping hot tea because it's too hot to gulp down. As a noun, a "sip" is one small amount you drink: "take a sip of your coffee."
示範例句 · Example
Mei sipped her hot tea slowly while she waited for the bus.
中文翻譯美慢慢地啜飲她的熱茶，當她在等公車的時候。
常見搭配
sip your drink
小口喝你的飲料
to drink it in very small amounts
Connie sat at the table, sipping her drink slowly.
sip coffee / tea
慢慢喝咖啡／茶
to drink coffee or tea slowly
He sat in his chair, peacefully sipping his coffee.
sip at something
小口試喝某樣東西
to take small amounts of a drink, often carefully or without finishing it
She sipped at her juice, still not sure if she liked it.
sip slowly
慢慢地小口喝
to drink in small amounts and take a long time
The nurse told him to sip slowly after the medicine.
From the word’s history
From Middle English sippen, of uncertain origin.
源自中古英文 sippen，來源不明。
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
sipnoun/sɪp/
- 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.
sipverb/sɪp/
- 1
To drink slowly, small mouthfuls at a time.
- 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.
- A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed.
- 2
To drink a small quantity.
- [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.
- They skim the floods, and sip the purple flowers.
- 4
To consume slowly.
- 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.
- It makes a small car, the Chevy Cobalt, which sips petrol in moderation and is therefore selling well.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- single-issue publication
- structural insulated panel
- Session Initiation Protocol
- Supplementary Ideographic Plane
- System Integrity Protection
- Strengthening Institutions Program
- seep
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