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Trad. 溫吞
- tepid; lukewarm
- (fig.) apathetic; half-hearted; sluggish
- mild-tempered
- to hum and haw (idiom); to mumble as if hiding sth
- to speak and break off, then start again
- to hold sth back
Trad. 吞噬細胞
- phagocyte (cell that ingests and destroys foreign matter)
Trad. 吞聲忍氣
- see 忍氣吞聲|忍气吞声[ren3 qi4 tun1 sheng1]
Trad. 吞雲吐霧
- to swallow clouds and blow out fog (idiom)
- to blow cigarette or opium smoke
Trad. 囫圇吞下
- to swallow whole
- (fig.) to swallow (lies etc)
Trad. 囫圇吞棗
- to swallow in one gulp (idiom)
- (fig.) to accept without thinking
- to lap up
Trad. 巴吞魯日
- Baton Rouge, capital of Louisiana
Trad. 蠶食鯨吞
- lit. to nibble like a silkworm or swallow like a whale (idiom)
- fig. to seize (territory etc) incrementally or wholesale
Trad. 生吞活剝
- to swallow whole (idiom); fig. to apply uncritically
Trad. 噯腐吞酸
- putrid belching with regurgitation of stomach acid (medical term)
Trad. 飲恨吞聲
- to harbor a grudge with deep-seated hatred (idiom)
Trad. 狼吞虎嚥
- to wolf down one's food (idiom); to devour ravenously
- to gorge oneself
Trad. 忍氣吞聲
- to submit to humiliation (idiom); to suffer in silence
- to swallow one's anger
- to grin and bear it
- Tunmi Sanghuzha (6th century AD), originator of the Tibetan script
Trad. 小吞噬細胞
- microphage (a type of white blood cell)
- a man who is never content is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant (idiom)