5neck and neck (with somebody)informalEQUAL if two competitors or groups are neck and neck in a competition or race, they are level with each other 〔比赛中〕(与某人)势均力敌,不分上下
Opinion polls show the two main parties are running neck and neck.
民意调查显示两大主要党派势均力敌。
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neck and neck (with somebody)• Du Pont and others are neck and neck with us.• He and Yeltsin are neck and neck in the polls.• It's neck and neck with Madonna.• Sailing: Leaders neck and neck.• The two main parties are still neck and neck, pointing to a hungParliament.
6in this/somebody’s neck of the woodsinformalPLACE in a particular area or part of the country 在这一带/在某人的地区
I haven’t been in this neck of the woods for years.
我已经好多年没有到这里来了。
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in this/somebody’s neck of the woods• What are you doing in this neck of the woods?• We don't get much snowin our neck of the woods.
7get it in the neckBritish EnglishBrE spokenPUNISH to be punished or criticized 受到惩罚[批评]
If we don’t make some changes we’ll all get it in the neck.
如果不作些改变,我们都会挨批评的。
8by a neckinformalLITTLE/NOT MUCH if a race, especially a horse race, is won by a neck, the winner is only a very short distance in front 〔比赛,尤指赛马中〕以微弱优势〔获胜〕
Our horse won by a neck.
我们的马以微弱优势获胜。
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by a neck• The springing swan-bows, neck by neck, would slide homing into the sand-flats like silk.• But things have now improved and sales in comparableshops are currently ahead of last year, if only by a neck.• Although tying up, she battled on well to hold off FlyingSpeedby a neck.• Our horse won by a neck.
I don't know how they have the neck to charge that much!
我弄不明白他们怎么好意思收这么多钱!
10land 土地 [countableC]SG a narrow piece of land that comes out of a wider part 狭长地带
a neck of land between a lake and the sea
湖海之间的地峡
11.(hang) around your neckPROBLEMif something hangs around your neck, it keeps causing you problems 〔问题〕缠绕着某人 → be breathing down somebody’s neckat breathe(5), → I’ll wring somebody’s neckat wring(6), → pain in the neckat pain1(3), → risk your neckat risk2(1), → save somebody’s neckat save1(11), → stick your neck outat stick out
neck2 verb [intransitiveI usually in progressive] informal
KISSif two people are necking, they kiss for a long time in a sexual way 搂脖子深吻,拥吻
—necking noun [uncountableU]
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neck• He reverted to the stage of churchcampnecking.• The two kids stayed by the doors, necking.• On these drives, they usually end up parking somewhere, only to neck and stuff, according to Fifi.• Samantha starts neckingBob, and then starts necking me.• Jemma found her friends necking in the back of the car.• We started necking on the sofa, and she undressed, and suggested the bedroom.• They went out in the backyard and necked with us.