- [countable]
a glass or plastic container, usually round with straight sides and a narrow neck, used especially for storing liquids （细颈）瓶子 
a wine/beer/milk/water bottle 葡萄酒/啤酒/牛奶/水瓶 Put the top back on the bottle. 把瓶盖盖上。 🔊🔊 a plastic/glass bottle 塑料/玻璃瓶 To open the bottle, you twist and pull out the stopper. 要打开瓶子，请旋转并拉出塞子。 He threw his message in a bottle into the North Sea. 他把信息扔进了北海的瓶子里。
Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatinga1She filled the bottle with water. 她给瓶子里灌了水。 a crowd of youths throwing bottles and stones 一群扔瓶子和石头的年轻人 Several bags of broken glass bottles were collected. 收集了几袋破碎的玻璃瓶。 He threw his empty beer bottle on the ground. 他把空的啤酒瓶扔在地上。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- empty
- broken
- …
- fill
- empty
- open
- …
- cap
- top
- opener
- …
- over a/the bottle
- bottle of
- be on the bottle
- hit the bottle
- take to the bottle
- …
- [countable]
the amount contained in a bottle 一瓶（的量） Extra ExamplesTopics Cooking and eatinga1We discussed the problem over a bottle of wine. 我们一边喝葡萄酒，一边讨论那个问题。 We washed the food down with a bottle of cheap red wine. 我们就着一瓶便宜的红酒干掉了这些吃的。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- empty
- broken
- …
- fill
- empty
- open
- …
- cap
- top
- opener
- …
- over a/the bottle
- bottle of
- be on the bottle
- hit the bottle
- take to the bottle
- …
- the bottle[singular] (informal)
alcoholic drink 酒 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- empty
- broken
- …
- fill
- empty
- open
- …
- cap
- top
- opener
- …
- over a/the bottle
- bottle of
- be on the bottle
- hit the bottle
- take to the bottle
- …
- [countable, usually singular]
a bottle used to give milk to a baby; the milk from such a bottle (used instead of mother’s milk) （婴儿）奶瓶；奶瓶里的奶（非母乳） - [uncountable] (British English, informal)
courage or confidence, for example to do something that is dangerous or unpleasant 勇气；信心 It took a lot of bottle to do that. 那样做需要很大的勇气。 🔊🔊 I didn’t think she’d have the bottle to ask him. 我认为她没有酒瓶要问他。
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French boteille, from medieval Latin butticula, diminutive of late Latin buttis ‘cask’.
Idioms
let the genie out of the bottle
to do something that has a big effect and after which it is very difficult or impossible to go back to how things were before When guns were invented, the genie was let out of the bottle. 发明了枪支后，精灵就从瓶子里放了出来。