swim
/swɪm; swɪm/ v
(-mm-; pt swam / swm; swæm/, pp swum / swʌm; swʌm/)
1
(a) [I, Ipr, Ip]
move the body through water by using arms, legs, fins, tail, etc游水; 游泳: Fish swim. 鱼会游水.
Let's go swimming. 咱们去游泳吧.
swim on one's back 仰泳
When the ship sank we had to swim for it, ie save ourselves by swimming. 船沉时我们不得不游泳逃生.
swim underwater, upstream, across, ashore 潜泳、 逆水而游、 游泳横渡、 游上岸.
(b) [Tn] use particular movements to do this 用某姿势游泳
swim breast-stroke, back-stroke, crawl, etc 游蛙泳、 仰泳、 爬泳等.
2
(a) [Tn, Tn.pr]
cover a distance by swimming 游（一段距离）
swim a mile, race, river 游一英里、 比赛游泳、 游过河
swim two lengths of the pool 在游泳池中游一个来回
swim the Channel 泅渡英吉利海峡.
(b) [no passive 不用於被动语态
Tn.pr, Tn.p]
cause (an animal) to do this 使（动物）游水
She swam her horse across (the river). 她使马游水过河.
3 (usu in the continuous tenses 通常用於进行时态)
(a) [I, Ipr] ~ (with sth) be flooded or overflowing (with liquid) 被淹; 溢
Her eyes were swimming (with tears). 她泪眼汪汪.
The bathroom floor was swimming with water. 浴室的地面上都是水.
(b) [Ipr] ~ in sth be covered with liquid as if floating in it 浸於液体中; 泡
meat swimming in gravy 浸在浓汁中的肉.
4
(a) [I, Ipr] seem to be whirling 似在旋转
The room swam before his eyes/around him. 他感觉房间好像在他眼前[在他周围]旋转.
(b) [I] have a dizzy feeling 感到眩晕; 发晕
The whisky made his head swim. 他喝了威士忌感到头晕目眩.
My brain swam at the complexity of the calculations. 这种复杂的计算搞得我头昏眼花.
5 (idm 习语) sink or swim => sink1. swim, n
1 action or period of swimming 游泳: go for a swim 去游泳
I only had two swims last year. 去年我只游泳两次.
2 (idm 习语) in/out of the `swim (infml 口) aware or involved/not aware or involved in what is going on 了解或介入[不了解或不介入]当前情况
Although I'm retired, voluntary work keeps me in the swim (of things). 我虽已退休, 但仍做些义务工作, 以便了解当前的情势.