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 swimming ['swɪmɪŋ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 游泳, 眩晕



    swimming
    [ noun ]
    1. the act of swimming

    2. <noun.act>
      it was the swimming they enjoyed most
      they took a short swim in the pool
    [ adj ]
    1. filled or brimming with tears

    2. <adj.all>
      swimming eyes
      sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid
    3. applied to a fish depicted horizontally

    4. <adj.all>


    Swim \Swim\, v. i. [imp. {Swam}or {Swum}; p. p. {Swum}; p. pr. &
    vb. n. {Swimming}.] [AS. swimman; akin to D. zwemmen, OHG.
    swimman, G. schwimmen, Icel. svimma, Dan. sw["o]mme, Sw.
    simma. Cf. {Sound} an air bladder, a strait.]
    1. To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to
    float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity
    is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed.

    2. To move progressively in water by means of strokes with
    the hands and feet, or the fins or the tail.

    Leap in with me into this angry flood,
    And swim to yonder point. --Shak.

    3. To be overflowed or drenched. --Ps. vi. 6.

    Sudden the ditches swell, the meadows swim.
    --Thomson.

    4. Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.

    [They] now swim in joy. --Milton.

    5. To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.]

    [Streams] that swim full of small fishes. --Chaucer.


    Swimming \Swim"ming\, n.
    The act of one who swims.


    Swimming \Swim"ming\, a. [From {Swim} to be dizzy.]
    Being in a state of vertigo or dizziness; as, a swimming
    brain.


    Swimming \Swim"ming\, n.
    Vertigo; dizziness; as, a swimming in the head. --Dryden.


    Swimming \Swim"ming\, a.
    1. That swims; capable of swimming; adapted to, or used in,
    swimming; as, a swimming bird; a swimming motion.

    2. Suffused with moisture; as, swimming eyes.

    {Swimming bell} (Zo["o]l.), a nectocalyx. See Illust. under
    {Siphonophora}.

    {Swimming crab} (Zo["o]l.), any one of numerous species of
    marine crabs, as those of the family {Protunid[ae]}, which
    have some of the joints of one or more pairs of legs
    flattened so as to serve as fins.

    1. She told the Post in an interview published Sunday that some of the money may have become "mingled" into improvements on her home that included a swimming pool, a $2,500 wide-screen television and renovations to her basement.
    2. The desegregation of swimming pools, toilets and other facilities once reserved for whites has changed little for millions of blacks who still face prejudice, poverty and hopelessness.
    3. Hyatt alone is building three such resorts in Hawaii, including one that will feature a swimming pool nearly an acre in size, with waterfalls and swim-up bars.
    4. In Acapulco, condominium-style resorts with private swimming pools and hideaway beaches cost around $250 a day.
    5. "They have gone through the Niagara River and into Lake Ontario," Ms. Claudi said. "Now they are swimming their way toward Toronto." Scientists are not sure what the ecological impact will be, but are fearful of it.
    6. A Navy admiral has rejected the appeals of four rescue instructors charged in the death of an airman who was dragged into a swimming pool while classmates sang to drown out his screams for help.
    7. South Carolina today banned shellfish harvesting and warned against swimming in the ocean and rivers, saying Hurricane Hugo had left waters choked with sewage.
    8. He remembers summers riding wild horses and swimming with them in clear, icy waters.
    9. The warning against swimming could last for months and possibly affect the spring tourist season, said Wayne Fanning of the Department of Health and Environmental Control.
    10. The best recreational sport for strengthening the back, in his opinion, is swimming.
    11. Tabloids splashed pictures of "Goldfish," swimming in a water basin, and its "parents" on their front pages.
    12. Raised in glorious freedom, fattened for four months on corn and milk, then handplucked and cleaned, it usually winds up swimming in cream sauce on the table of one of France's ritziest restaurants.
    13. It has a heated swimming pool and a three-car garage.
    14. A study mandated by Congress in 1984 found that fewer than 400 of 2,000 11th graders could adequately write a note applying for a summer job at a swimming pool.
    15. Grow Group also has a variety of consumer and professional products, including swimming pool chemicals, spray paints and varnishes.
    16. It was swimming strongly and didn't appear to have water in its lungs." Shallow water and deep, thick mud had hampered the rescue on the central Louisiana shore in Vermilion Parish about 20 miles south-southwest of Intracoastal City.
    17. A 30-minute workout three times a week for walking, jogging, swimming or aerobics is a good start.
    18. The club's acting manager, Joyce Cirimelli, said she has posted a copy of the judge's ruling in the pool area and a notice saying that members who want to swim must wear bathing suits, but many men are still swimming in the buff.
    19. The Worcester Foundation is working now on a male contraceptive, aimed at inactivating the sperm cell's swimming machinery.
    20. The search began just after noon Saturday when the captain of the cruise ship Holiday reported seeing two scuba divers swimming under the ship's hull and asked authorities to search for anything suspicious below the water line.
    21. They would take long walks in the woods, go swimming, joking about Warren's advancing years and earnestly discussing the meaning of life.
    22. You can see the zoo's polar bears swimming from below, through a glass-enclosed pool, or from above, from the pathway leading from the zoo gardens.
    23. No one can say if it is a sign of continuing fighting, because the last refugee crossed here three days ago, before Iraqi government forces took control of the road. Now, Iraqis are crossing farther north, swimming and wading through marshes.
    24. Two East German railway workers escaped their communist homeland Wednesday by swimming across the Elbe River to West Germany, police said.
    25. On Thursday, police said a bomb was planted against the inside wall of a building housing the swimming pool in the predominately Roman Catholic Falls Road area of West Belfast.
    26. The first fire apparently was sparked by rainwater that fell through a window of the Advanced Laboratories Inc. plant and mixed with chloride tablets that the plant makes for swimming pools, causing a violent reaction.
    27. Like many wealthy Saudis, the businessman lives in a handsome high-walled villa that groups working and living quarters around a courtyard with fragrant flowers and a floodlit swimming pool.
    28. He wanted one swimming in his backyard.
    29. Meanwhile, the Fringe includes A Midsummer Night's Dream and Iago (rewrites of the Shakespeare plays) done by the Ukrainian company Theatre on Podol; the latter takes place in a swimming pool.
    30. Williams, whose MGM movies like the "Million Dollar Mermaid," "Dangerous When Wet" and "Bathing Beauty" were known for lavish swimming and underwater ballet sequences, says she packed decades of swimming experience into 124 suit designs.
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