Chest
[tʃest] or [tʃɛst]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
(n.) A coffin.
(n.) The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.
(n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
(n.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.
(v. i.) To deposit in a chest; to hoard.
(v. i.) To place in a coffin.
(n.) Strife; contention; controversy.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Breast, thorax, trunk (of the body).
錄入:罗莎莉
解釋/意思:
n. a large strong box: the part of the body between the neck and the abdomen the thorax.—adj. Chest′ed having a chest: placed in a chest.—n. Chest′-note in singing or speaking a deep note the lowest sound of the voice.
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例句/造句/用法:
- The chest is gone. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Finally I put a rope to my trunk, which was about the size of a carpenter's chest, and started to pull this from the baggage-car to the passenger-car. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He described the experience in the following words:-- A thrilling, extending from the chest to the extremities, was almost immediately p roduced. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- His brain told him that the chest contained something valuable, or the men would not have hidden it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Yes, there was a tantalus containing brandy and whisky on the sea-chest. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Being asked what he meant, he answered, them that come out upon him and partickler his chest. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He stood before her, his hands in his pockets, his chest sturdily expanded under its vivid waistcoat. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting against his emotion. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- His chest swelled, and his legs got weak, and he was short of breath. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- At the moment, however, we had no thought for the old chest, for our eyes were riveted upon that which crouched beside it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- And the great heavy dark plate-chests went off to Messrs. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- He opened chests and cupboards, such as did not baffle his small experience, and in these he found the contents much better preserved. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Early next morning their numerous chests and boxes were hoisted on deck and lowered to waiting small boats for transportation to shore. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Sheet-iron kettles, tent-poles and mess chests were inconvenient articles to transport in that way. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Four little chests all in a row, Dim with dust, and worn by time, Four women, taught by weal and woe To love and labor in their prime. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- And the old tea-chests stuffed and covered for ottomans! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- It was my first visit to the scene of the crime--a high, dingy, narrow-chested house, prim, formal, and solid, like the century which gave it birth. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- A short man was his Lordship, broad-chested and bow-legged, but proud of the fineness of his foot and ankle, and always caressing his garter-knee. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Mary Chivers was as tall and fair as her mother, but large-waisted, flat-chested and slightly slouching, as the altered fashion required. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Wal, now, just think on 't, said the trader; just look at them limbs,--broad-chested, strong as a horse. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
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