Breast

[brest] or [brɛst]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the part of an animal's body that corresponds to a person's chest.

(noun.) the front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen; 'he beat his breast in anger'.

(noun.) either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman.

(noun.) meat carved from the breast of a fowl.

(verb.) meet at breast level; 'The runner breasted the tape'.

英格拉姆編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse.

(n.) Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mamma; a teat.

(n.) Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast of a hill.

(n.) The face of a coal working.

(n.) The front of a furnace.

(n.) The seat of consciousness; the repository of thought and self-consciousness, or of secrets; the seat of the affections and passions; the heart.

(n.) The power of singing; a musical voice; -- so called, probably, from the connection of the voice with the lungs, which lie within the breast.

(v. t.) To meet, with the breast; to struggle with or oppose manfully; as, to breast the storm or waves.

(n.) A torus.

杰西整理

同義詞及近義詞：

n. [1]. Bosom.[2]. Heart, conscience, seat of the affections.[3]. Mamma, teat, dug, udder.

v. a. Face, stem, withstand, oppose, resist, bare the breast against.

迪莉娅編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

[See BOSOM]

达琳錄入

解釋/意思:

n. the forepart of the human body between the neck and the belly: one of the two mammary glands in women forming soft protuberances on the chest: the corresponding part of any animal: (fig.) conscience disposition affections.—v.t. to bear the breast against: to oppose manfully: to mount.—n. Breast′-bone the bone running down the middle of the breast to which the first seven ribs are attached.—adv. Breast′-deep deep as up to the breast.—adj. Breast′ed having a breast.—adv. Breast′-high high as the breast—ns. Breast′-knot a knot of ribbons worn on the breast; Breast′pin an ornamental pin for the breast; Breast′plate a plate or piece of armour for the breast: (B.) an embroidered square of linen worn on the breast of the Jewish high-priest bearing twelve precious stones each inscribed with the name of one of the tribes of Israel; Breast′-plough a kind of spade for cutting turf with a cross-bar against which the breast is pressed; Breast′rail the upper rail of a breastwork; Breast′summer Bres′summer a summer or beam supporting the whole front of a building in the same way as a lintel supports the portion over an opening; Breast′-wall a retaining wall; Breast′-wheel a water-wheel which is turned by water delivered upon it at about half its height; Breast′work a hastily constructed earthwork.—To make a clean breast of to make a full confession.

整理:李奥娜