breast

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breast1 /brest/ S3 noun

1 HBHBODYwoman’s body 女人的身體 [countableC] one of the two round raised parts on a woman’s chest that produce milk when she has a baby 〔女人的〕乳房

These bras are specially designed for women with large breasts.

這些胸罩專爲乳房豐滿的女性設計。

breast milk

母乳

breast cancer

乳腺癌

bare-breasted/small-breasted etc 裸胸的/乳房小的等

2 chest 胸部CHEST [countableC]HBH written the part of your body between your neck and your stomach 胸部，胸膛

Dick cradled her photograph against his breast.

迪克把她的照片輕輕擁在胸前。

3 bird 鳥PART OF A BIRD [countableC]HBB the front part of a bird’s body, below its neck 〔鳥的〕胸部

a robin with a red breast

紅胸知更鳥

red-breasted/white-breasted etc

red-breasted geese

紅胸黑雁

→4 See picture of 見圖 BIRD OF PREY

4 meat 肉MEAT [uncountableU]DFF meat that comes from the front part of the body of a bird such as a chicken 〔禽類的〕胸脯肉

turkey breast

火雞胸脯肉

5. clothes 衣服 [countableC usually singular] the part of a jacket, shirt etc that covers the top part of your chest 〔夾克衫、襯衫等的〕前胸，胸襟 → double-breasted , single-breasted

6. make a clean breast of it/things ADMITto admit that you have done something wrong 和盤托出，如實供認，坦白

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make a clean breast of it/things• He needs to go before the public and make a clean breast of it.

7 emotions 感情EMOTIONS [countableC] literaryFEEL HAPPY/FRIGHTENED/BORED ETC where your feelings of sadness, love, anger, fear etc come from 情感；心情，内心

a troubled breast

煩亂的心緒

→ beat your breast at beat1(31), → chimney breast

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breast• breast cancer• A variety of experimental technologies are being tested in the effort to find better ways to diagnose breast cancer, Blumenthal said.• Fill the terrine with layers of forcemeat and guinea fowl breast.• His arms were folded across his breast.• Nate kept patting his breast pockets, looking for his pipe.• I consoled him at my breast when he wept.• Remove breasts before the leg-thigh pieces, while still springy and juicy, and keep warm.• Anger swelled the young man's breast.

breast2 verb [transitiveT] formal

1. TOPto reach the top of a hill or slope 登上〔山頂〕

2. PUSHto push against something with your chest 以胸部推...；挺胸頂着...

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breast• He drove out of Brighton cheerfully enough, munching his sandwich, climbing the London road until he had breasted the Downs.

Origin breast1

Old English breost

breast1 nounbreast2 verb

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