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dribble

verb
🔊/ˈdrɪbl/
🔊/ˈdrɪbl/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they dribble
🔊/ˈdrɪbl/
🔊/ˈdrɪbl/
he / she / it dribbles
🔊/ˈdrɪblz/
🔊/ˈdrɪblz/
past simple dribbled
🔊/ˈdrɪbld/
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past participle dribbled
🔊/ˈdrɪbld/
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-ing form dribbling
🔊/ˈdrɪblɪŋ/
🔊/ˈdrɪblɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive, transitive] dribble (something) to let saliva or another liquid come out of your mouth and run down your chin 流口水；垂涎synonym drool
  2. [intransitive] + adv./prep. to fall in small drops or in a thin stream一点一滴地落下；细流
    • Melted wax dribbled down the side of the candle.熔化了的蜡一滴滴从蜡烛边上流下。🔊🔊
  3. [transitive] dribble something (into/over/onto something) to pour something slowly, in drops or a thin stream使滴出；使成细流 synonym drizzle, trickle
    • Dribble a little olive oil over the salad.在色拉上面滴点橄榄油。🔊🔊
  4. [transitive, intransitive] dribble (something) (+ adv./prep.) (in football (soccer) and some other sports足球及其他某些体育运动) to move the ball along with several short kicks, hits or bounces运球；带球；盘球
    • She dribbled the ball the length of the field.她带球从后场跑到前场。🔊🔊
    • He dribbled past two defenders and scored a magnificent goal.他带球越过两个防守队员，射入非常精彩的一球。🔊🔊
    Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
    5. Word Originmid 16th cent.: frequentative of obsolete drib, variant of drip. The original sense was ‘shoot an arrow short or wide of its target’, which was also a sense of drib.

dribble

noun
🔊/ˈdrɪbl/
🔊/ˈdrɪbl/
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  1. [countable] a very small amount of liquid, in a thin stream涓滴；细流
    • a dribble of blood一丝血流
    • Add just a dribble of oil.只加一点点油。🔊🔊
  2. [uncountable] (especially British English) saliva (= liquid) from a person’s mouth口水
    • There was dribble all down the baby's front.这婴儿胸前淌满了口水。🔊🔊
  3. [countable] the act of dribbling the ball in a sport运球；带球；盘球Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
    4. Word Originmid 16th cent.: frequentative of obsolete drib, variant of drip. The original sense was ‘shoot an arrow short or wide of its target’, which was also a sense of drib.