graze• He was back on Monday, with a graze on one cheek and perky as a parrot.• You may need to watch him at first, so that you can clean and dress any grazes or cuts immediately.• One of the children, five-year-old Stewart Weir, escaped with a bullet graze to the leg.• It was a deepgraze, but nothing more.• Flux can be mildly irritating so avoid getting it into cuts or grazes.• Their cattle would not be allowed to drink from it, or graze by it.• There was a rawgraze across one cheekbone.• The graze along his cheekbone somehow managed to emphasise the tough, assured air he wore so easily.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + GRAZE | PREPOSITION | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤minor, slight, small輕微的擦傷;小面積的擦傷VERB + GRAZE➤have, suffer蹭傷;擦傷◇She suffered only minor grazes in the crash.車禍中她只不過輕微擦傷。PREPOSITION➤graze on某部位的擦傷◇I had a graze on my leg.我的腿擦傷了。PHRASES➤be just a graze僅僅擦傷而已▸➤cuts and grazes (especially BrE) 割傷和擦傷graze
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1of animals動物ADVERB | VERB + GRAZE | PREPOSITIONADVERB➤contentedly, peacefully, quietly心滿意足地/安詳地/靜靜地吃草◇Sheep were grazing peacefully in the fields.綿羊在田野裏安靜地吃着草。VERB + GRAZE➤allow sth to, turn sth out to讓⋯吃草;把⋯趕出去吃草◇The cattle were turned out to graze.牛都趕出去吃草了。PREPOSITION➤on, upon在⋯上吃草◇lambs grazing on the rough moorland pasture在崎嶇不平的高沼地牧場吃草的小羊graze
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2break the surface of your skin擦傷皮膚ADVERB | PREPOSITIONADVERB➤badly嚴重擦傷◇She had grazed her elbow quite badly.她的肘部擦傷得很嚴重。➤just, only只是擦傷◇The bullet only grazed his shoulder.子彈只擦傷了他的肩膀。PREPOSITION➤on蹭在⋯上◇He fell and grazed his knees on a rock.他摔倒在岩石上,蹭傷了膝蓋。