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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 3978 COCA: 3643

limb

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Related topics: Biology, Plants
limb /lɪm/ ●●○ noun [countableC]  
1  out on a limb ALONEalone and without help or support 孤立无援的
 All the other countries signed the agreement, leaving Britain out on a limb.
其他国家都签署了协议，使英国处于孤立无援的境地。
 He’d gone out on a limb (=taken a risk) to help us.
他冒险帮助我们。
Examples from the Corpus
out on a limb• She was a chameleon, out on a limb, and had chosen a difficult camouflage.• And the only way you're going to fail is if you get out on a limb.• But going out on a limb is one thing-this is going out on a twig, going out ona leaf.• Breaking new ground often requires going out on a limb.• Until you came along, Century House was right out on a limb.• Junior was out on a limb.• It was about ninety pounds and he went out on a limb for it, too.• But only a purely wild man went out on a limb of four or five minutes.
2. HBan arm or leg 肢；手臂；腿
3. strong-limbed/long-limbed etc HBHhaving strong, long etc arms and legs 四肢强壮的/四肢长的等
4. HBPa large branch of a tree 大树枝
→ risk life and limb at risk2(1), → tear somebody limb from limb at tear2(9)
Examples from the Corpus
limb• Here again, the descending limb of the loop of Henle in freely permeable to water but not to solute.• Hundreds of children have lost limbs after stepping on mines.• Anyway, there's considerable loss of blood, massive lower limb and pelvic damage and some chest injuries.• My limbs fail, my mouth is parched, my hair is standing on end.• Strength of limb, willingness of spirit-that would be sufficient.• Even Jack felt a curious stiffening of the limbs.• When babies are born they have very little control over their limbs.• Their limbs moved in naked smoothness, shifting against each other, intertwining.• The calf stood up slowly, with trembling limbs and took its first, uncertain steps.
Origin limb
Old English lim
limb noun
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TOEFL IELTS BNC: 3978 COCA: 3643
limb

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + LIMB | LIMB + NOUN ADJECTIVE➤long修長的肢體➤short短小的肢體▸➤slender, thin苗條的肢體；瘦的肢體➤flailing胡搖亂晃的肢體◇Two arms reached around her flailing limbs.兩隻手臂抱住了她胡亂揮舞的肢體。➤powerful, strong有力的／強壯的肢體▸➤bare, naked裸露的肢體▸➤broken, injured骨折的／受傷的肢體➤sore痠痛的肢體▸➤stiff僵硬的肢體◇I eased my stiff limbs into the hot bath.我小心翼翼地把僵直的腿放進熱洗澡水裏。➤tired, weary (especially BrE) 疲乏的肢體▸➤amputated, severed斷肢➤missing殘缺的肢體◇The missing limb did not lessen the quality of the cat's life.少了一條腿並沒有影響那隻貓的生活質量。➤artificial, prosthetic假肢；義肢➤phantom幻肢◇sensations felt in phantom limbs after amputation截肢後的幻肢感覺➤lower, upper下肢；上肢▸➤hind後肢◇The animal is able to stand up on its hind limbs.這種動物能夠用後肢站立。VERB + LIMB➤amputate, sever截肢；切斷肢體➤lose失去肢體◇people who have lost limbs in battle在戰鬥中失去肢體的人們➤stretch伸展四肢◇I stretched my limbs lazily as I sat up.我坐起來的時候懶懶地伸展了一下四肢。LIMB + NOUN➤development, growth肢體的發育／生長➤amputation截肢
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 3978 COCA: 3643

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