Word · Frequency #7896
gums
用牙床咀嚼；没牙地嚼
gums is the third person singular of gum.
to chew with the gums, especially when one has no teeth
常用于婴儿或没牙的人/动物用牙床啃咬食物
- 1.
To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal.
咀嚼,尤指无牙的人或动物。
- 2.
To stiffen with glue or gum.
用胶水或树胶使变硬。
- 3.
To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer.
加深和扩大(磨损的锯)齿间的空隙,如用磨锯器。
- 4.
To inelegantly attach into a sequence.
笨拙地附加到序列中。
用胶粘合；涂树胶；加深（磨损的锯）齿隙；笨拙地接入；胡乱插入；咀嚼,尤指无牙的人或动物。；用胶水或树胶使变硬。
In use
The baby has no teeth yet, so she just gums her food.
The old man gummed the soft bread because his false teeth were loose.
The puppy was gumming a toy bone on the carpet.
gum sth
此处意为“用牙床咀嚼”，主语常为无牙的婴儿或老人。
The baby gummed the biscuit.
宝宝用牙床嚼饼干。
gum sth onto/to sth
表示“用胶水或树胶把某物粘到另一物上”，与 stick/glue sth onto sth 相近。
He gummed the label onto the envelope.
他把标签粘在信封上。
gum sth together
强调把多个部分粘合为一个整体。
They gummed the broken pieces together.
Connections
Collocations
- gummed tape
- 湿水胶带
- Use gummed tape to seal the package.用湿水胶带封好包裹。
- gum together
- 用胶粘合
- The children gummed the pieces of card together.孩子们用胶把卡纸碎片粘合在一起。
- gum one's food
- 用牙床咀嚼食物
- The toothless old man gummed his food slowly.那位没有牙齿的老人慢慢地用牙床咀嚼食物。
Idioms & figurative uses
- gum up the works
- 使停顿；制造麻烦The new software update gummed up the works for the whole department.新的软件更新让整个部门的工作陷入停顿。
- gum up
- 弄糟；使卡住Don't gum up the printer with cheap paper.别用便宜纸把打印机卡住。
Synonyms
Learner notes
Memory Tip
gum 发音像‘嘎姆’，想象没牙的人用牙床咀嚼；再联想口香糖 gum 的黏性，记住‘用胶粘合’。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：日常谈论婴儿或老人进食、描述无牙动物咀嚼 表示“用牙床咀嚼”时，多用于日常口语或叙述，常描述婴儿、老人或无牙动物；语气中性，不算正式书面语。
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词都与 gum 押韵，末尾都读 /ʌm/。拼写：sum, drum, plum, hum 以 -um 结尾；dumb 和 crumb 以 -umb 结尾，b 不发音。注意不要被拼写相似的词误导：gym /dʒɪm/、gun /ɡʌn/、gull /ɡʌl/ 的读音与 gum 并不相同。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 2，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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