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/sɪp/
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."
啜飲；小口喝
過去式 sipped過去分詞 sipped-ing sipping三單 sips
原始詞典資料13 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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/
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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
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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/
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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.
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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.
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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.
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資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。