drinking
['driŋkiŋ]
n. 喝, 喝酒

1. I like drinking beer.
   喜欢喝啤酒。
2. He sat by the fireside drinking coffee.
   坐炉喝着咖啡。
3. Alas, poor duke! the task he undertakes is numbering sands, and drinking oceans dry: Where one on his side fights, thousands will fly.
   唉！怜爵！担简数沙饮海；战，1000转身逃走。

drinking
[ noun ]

1. the act of consuming liquids

<noun.act>

2. the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess

<noun.act>
drink was his downfall

Drink \Drink\ (dr[i^][ng]k), v. i. [imp. {Drank} (dr[a^][ng]k),
formerly {Drunk} (dr[u^][ng]k); & p. p. {Drunk}, {Drunken}
(-'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Drinking}. Drunken is now rarely
used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually
intoxicated; the form drank, not infrequently used as a p.
p., is not so analogical.] [AS. drincan; akin to OS. drinkan,
D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, Sw. dricka, Dan.
drikke, Goth. drigkan. Cf. {Drench}, {Drunken}, {Drown}.]
1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other
purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in
satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring.

Gird thyself, and serve me, till have eaten and
drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink.
--Luke xvii.
8.

He shall drink of the wrath the Almighty. --Job xxi.
20.

Drink of the cup that can not cloy. --Keble.

2. To quaff exhilarating or intoxicating liquors, in
merriment or feasting; to carouse; to revel; hence, to
lake alcoholic liquors to excess; to be intemperate in the
?se of intoxicating or spirituous liquors; to tipple.
--Pope.

And they drank, and were merry with him. --Gem.
xliii. 34.

Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk
freely. --Thackeray.

{To drink to}, to salute in drinking; to wish well to, in the
act of taking the cup; to pledge in drinking.

I drink to the general joy of the whole table,
And to our dear friend Banquo. --Shak.


Drinking \Drink"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.

2. The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating
liquors.

3. An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.

Note: Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a
compound; as, a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking
glass, drinking house, etc.

{Drinking horn}, a drinking vessel made of a horn.