Word · Frequency #9708
nips
轻咬
nips is the plural of nip.
A playful bite.
- 1.
A playful bite.
玩耍式的咬；轻咬。
- 2.
A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
少量食物或饮料,尤指少量烈酒
- 3.
A pinch with the nails or teeth.
用指甲或牙齿掐捏。
- 4.
Briskly cold weather.
寒冷刺骨的天气；严寒。
- 5.
A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
抓住；夹住；捏。
- 6.
A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
小切口；剪断末端。
- 7.
A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
地层逐渐变薄；尖灭。
- 8.
A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
冻害；霜冻使植物顶端枯死。
- 9.
A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
尖刻的讽刺；嘲弄
- 10.
A short turn in a rope.
绳索上的短扭结
- 11.
The place of intersection where one roll touches another
一个滚筒与另一个滚筒接触的交点
掐；捏；一小口（酒）；少量饮品；刺骨的寒冷；寒气；挖苦；尖刻的话；夹住；掐紧
In use
The puppy gave a playful nip on my finger.
She trimmed the thread with a quick nip of the scissors.
I felt a sharp nip on my ankle and realized a mosquito had bitten me.
Connections
Collocations
- a nip in the air
- 空气中的寒意；天气寒冷
- There's a nip in the air this morning; you'd better wear a coat.今天早上天气寒冷，你最好穿上外套。
- take a nip
- 喝一小口（尤指酒）
- He took a nip of brandy to warm up.他喝了一小口白兰地暖暖身子。
- give someone a nip
- 轻咬某人一下；掐某人一下
- The kitten gave my hand a gentle nip.小猫轻轻地咬了一下我的手。
- a nip of whiskey
- 一小杯威士忌；少量威士忌
- She poured a nip of whiskey into his glass.她往他的杯子里倒了一点威士忌。
Idioms & figurative uses
- nip something in the bud
- 防患于未然；把某事扼杀在萌芽状态The principal tried to nip the conflict in the bud before it spread.
Learner notes
Memory Tip
ni音近‘捏’，p像手指一掐——轻咬、掐捏、寒风刺骨都像被‘捏’了一下。
Context & Register
语域：neutral 常见场景：describing a pet's playful action、everyday conversation、light narrative writing 这里指“轻咬”这一义项。nip 作名词表示“轻咬”时，通常用于日常描述，如小狗或小孩轻轻咬一下，语气中性，不算正式也不算俚语；在口语和书面叙事中都比较常见。注意与“少量烈酒”等其它义项区分。
Pronunciation & Spelling
这些词均与 nip /nɪp/ 押韵，结尾都是 /ɪp/。注意：nib /nɪb/ 拼写相似，但结尾为浊音 /b/；nap /næp/ 和 nope /noʊp/ 拼写近似，但不押韵，发音不同。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，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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