詞彙精選:breast的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義:
n.
乳房,乳腺
例句:
The baby was being nursed at its mother's breast.
那個孩子正在吃母親的奶。
例句:
She wears a low-cut dress which reveals her breasts.
她穿了一件露乳溝的低胸連衣裙。
胸脯,胸部
例句:
He struck his breast in a dramatic gesture.
他動作誇張地捶打著自己的胸膛。
例句:
He reached into his breast pocket for his cigar case.
他把手伸進胸前口袋裡拿雪茄煙盒。
心情;心窩,胸懷
例句:
The verse rose up to fire his breast with inspiration.
這首詩激發了他的靈感。
例句:
The battle roared; a sound calculated to arouse the sublimest emotions in the breast of the soldier.
戰場上吼聲震天,意在喚起士兵們最昂揚的鬥志。
v.
以胸對著,挺胸迎…而上 [T]
例句:
Who is the first to breast the tape?
誰第一個到終點的?
例句:
The runner breasted the tape.
賽跑者以胸部觸線。
堅毅地面對,與…搏鬥 [T]
例句:
The ship was breasting the waves.
輪船在破浪前進。
例句:
He breasted every trouble as it came.
他勇敢地迎接每個困難。
升高,攀登 [T]
例句:
The coach breasted a slight incline.
馬車上一個緩坡。
例句:
He breasted a rise and looked down.
他登上高處往下看。
二、詞義辨析:
breast,bosom,chest
這些名詞均含“胸,胸部”之意。breast指人或動物的胸部或胸部的前面,也指男人或女人的乳房。bosom文學用詞,與breast同義,特指女性的乳房,也可用作比喻。chest指胸膛,即肋骨所包圍的部分。
三、相關短語:
chicken breast
n.[醫]雞胸
breast drill
胸壓式手搖鑽,腳搖鑽
breast feeding
母乳餵養,人乳哺育
pigeon breast
胸骨凸出畸形,雞胸
breast cancer
n. 乳癌,乳腺癌
breast pocket
n. 小袋, 胸袋
四、參考例句:
Do a monthly breast self-exam.
每月進行胸部自我檢查
Success swelled his breast with pride.
成功使他心裡充滿了自豪感。
She developed a malignant breast tumor.
她得了惡性乳腺瘤。
She spent hours practising the breast stroke.
她花了數小時練習蛙泳。
We'll eat chicken breast fillets.
我們準備吃雞脯肉片。
He was shot through the breast.
他被子彈射穿胸部。
He bears it as a badge on the breast.
他把這佩在胸前當作徽章。
The fluffy, peachy-beige breast feather immediately suggested a mourning dove.
這種毛茸茸的杏黃色胸羽馬上讓人想到了哀鳩。
The breast can be cut into portions for grilling.
胸脯肉可以切成小塊燒烤。
O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast!
哦,背離慈愛胸懷的頑固不化的流亡者!