1·I was stuffed to the gills with chocolate cake.
我吃巧克力蛋糕都撑到嗓子眼儿了。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·They do, however, still breathe air, having never developed anything equivalent to the gills of their earlier marine incarnation.
然而，他们虽然仍呼吸着空气，却从未进化出类似于腮这种早期海洋生物的器官。
3·John quit football because he was fed up to the gills with practice.
约翰再也不题足球了，因为他练球练腻了。
4·Flushed with the success of a washout summer and stuffed to the gills with tasty bluebottles, it's time to welcome your new housemates.
蜘蛛们因多雨夏天的成功而激动不已，并且彻底饱食了美味的反吐丽蝇。 欢迎你新房友的时间到了。
5·Kris and I love food, and our fridge is usually filled to the gills with tons of good stuff, so seeing the vast emptiness was almost shocking.
克里斯和我都喜欢食物，我们的冰箱通常像鲸鱼的腮一样装满鱼虾，如果看到空余的位置几乎是令人震惊。
6·The poems are wonderfully free of the drag and load of overbearing and perfectly useless detail with which so many second-rate biographies are stuffed to the gills.
这些诗惊人地脱离了许多二流传记已塞满腮帮子的傲慢且完美却无用的细节。
7·Indeed, the world's 37 species of seahorse are fish, breathing through gills and using a swim bladder to control their buoyancy.
事实上，世界上有37种海马是鱼，它们通过鳃呼吸，用鱼鳔来控制浮力。
8·While the swimmer's movements may be smooth and fluid, people have neither fins to stay afloat or generate speed, nor gills to deal with going under.
虽然游泳者的动作可能是平稳和流畅的，但人们既没有鳍来保持漂浮或产生速度，也没有鳃用于在水下呼吸。
9·The gills of fishes are analogous to the lungs in terrestrial animals.
鱼类的鳃与陆上动物的肺类似。
—— 《新英汉大辞典》
10·I believe, 'said Mr Gills, blowing the dust off the glass top of a compass-case,' that you don't point more direct and due to the back parlour than the boy's inclination does after all.
“我觉得，”吉尔斯先生把一个罗盘匣子玻璃顶上的灰尘吹去，说道，“孩子总是喜欢跑到后客厅里去，你毕竟不能比他更直接更准确地指向后客厅。”