Word · CEFR C2 · Frequency #18476
wallow
打滚；翻滚
an act or instance of wallowing
- 1.
An instance of wallowing.
打滚
- 2.
A pool of water or mud in which animals wallow, or the depression left by them in the ground.
动物打滚的水坑或泥坑,或它们在地上留下的凹陷
- 3.
A kind of rolling walk.
一种滚动的步态
泥坑；水坑；动物打滚留下的洼地；摇晃的步态；蹒跚；打滚；动物打滚的水坑或泥坑,或它们在地上留下的凹陷；一种滚动的步态
In use
The pigs headed straight to their favorite wallow after the rain.
Deep wallows in the grassland showed where the buffalo had been resting.
The rhino rolled in a muddy wallow to cool down.
Connections
Collocations
- have a wallow
- 打滚；滚一滚
- The hippos had a wallow in the riverbank mud.河马在河岸的泥巴里打滚。
- mud wallow
- 泥坑；泥水坑
- A shallow mud wallow attracts many birds during the dry season.旱季，一个浅浅的泥坑吸引了许多鸟类。
- pig wallow
- 猪打滚的泥坑
- The farmer filled the pig wallow with fresh water.农夫给猪打滚的泥坑注入了新鲜的水。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
记忆联想：wallow可拆成wal+low（低），低洼的泥坑里动物在打滚。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：动物在泥水中打滚的描写、动物打滚处的水坑/泥坑或地上洼地、文学中形容蹒跚/翻滚的步态 名词 wallow 的含义随语境不同而变化：表示“打滚”或“水坑/泥坑”时，通常用于动物行为、自然或户外场景的描写；表示“滚动的步态”则比较罕见，多出现在文学性文字中。整体上看，该名词用法偏书面，口语里不如动词常见。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 wallow（/ˈwɒləʊ/）同韵的词有 follow、hollow、swallow，均以 -llow 结尾并读 /ɒləʊ/。注意 allow 虽然也以 -llow 结尾，但读 /əˈlaʊ/，其中的 ow 发 /aʊ/ 而不是 /əʊ/；yellow 等拼写相似的词元音也不同，读 /ˈjeləʊ/。
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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