shin

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shin1 /ʃɪn/ noun [countableC]

HBHthe front part of your leg between your knee and your foot （外）胫，胫部

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shin• Then a shin guard is pulled over the whole thing.• Her ankles and shins were scratched and bloodied, her stockings shredded by the trackside weeds and nettles.• A shower of pebbles fell short of her shin.• It snapped back on its hinges and banged his left shin.• When the man refused orders to halt and fled on foot, he was shot in the left shin, officers said.• Tucker spiked Renteria on the left shin.• Sharp little incisors showed when he smiled, matching, in dainty repulsiveness, his naked shins.• Newcastle ace Dyer aggravated a long-standing shin problem in Saturday's 1-0 home defeat to Manchester City.

shin2 verb (shinned, shinning) [intransitiveI] British EnglishBrE

shin up/down CLIMBto climb quickly up or down a tree, pole etc by using your hands and legs 快速地爬上/爬下 SYN American English shinny

He shinned up a tree.

他噌的一下爬到了一棵树上。

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shin up/down• I locked myself out of the house and had to shinny up a drainpipe to get in.• No fire-escape, no convenient drainpipe anyone could shin up.• Nothing as cheap as an open window or shinning down a drainpipe at midnight or down paying a suitcase full of bricks.• Dave shinned up a handy conifer.• He nodded encouragement to his fellows, and they shinned up after him and dropped down into the stockade.• But can not phone him from Twills as Mr Twill would insist on shinning up drainpipe himself and break femur.• The animal was so tame that it shinned up his leg and dived into a deep pocket.• Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.• We watched as small boys shinned up palm trees and brought coconuts down.• Craig shinned down the rope to where we were standing.• Boys and girls shinned up trees to 10p off branches.

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shin• Nothing as cheap as an open window or shinning down a drainpipe at midnight or down paying a suitcase full of bricks.• Dave shinned up a handy conifer.• He nodded encouragement to his fellows, and they shinned up after him and dropped down into the stockade.• But can not phone him from Twills as Mr Twill would insist on shinning up drainpipe himself and break femur.• The animal was so tame that it shinned up his leg and dived into a deep pocket.• Maintenance men could tell whether a pole - wooden or concrete - is dangerously cracked before shinning up it.

Origin shin

Old English scinu

shin1 nounshin2 verb

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