1. bite off more than one can chew : 贪多嚼不烂;
2. chew over : 考虑, 详细讨论;
及物动词
不及物动词
1. 咀嚼;嚼(碎)
When you chew food, you use your teeth to break it up in your mouth so that it becomes easier to swallow.
2. 嚼(口香糖、烟草)
If you chew gum or tobacco, you keep biting it and moving it around your mouth to taste the flavour of it. You do not swallow it.
3. (因为紧张)咬(嘴唇、指甲)
If you chew your lips or your fingernails, you keep biting them because you are nervous.
4. (人或动物)咬,啃
If a person or animal chews an object, they bite it with their teeth.
5. 口嚼糖
A chew is a sweet that you have to chew very hard before it becomes soft.
6. 试图承担力不能及的事
If you say that someone has bitten off more than they can chew, you mean that they are trying to do something which is too difficult for them.
7. 闲聊;闲扯
If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way.
8. to chew the cud - see cud
1. biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
Synonym: chewingmasticationmanduction
2. a wad of something chewable as tobacco