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covers your chest 前胸部分：A row of medals was pirmed to the breast 〇/Ais coat.他的外套胸前别着一排
勋章。
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OF BIRD 鸟 5
[C] the
front part of a bird’s body (鸟的） 胸部：breast feathers 胸部羽毛◊ rhe robin has a red
breast•知更鸟由胸部为红色。
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MEAT 肉
6 tc, U] meat from the front part of the
body of a bird or an animal (.鸟或动物的）胸脯肉：chicfcen/ turfcey breasts鸡/火鸡胸^甫肉◊ breast 〇>〖amb羊盖如
脯肉
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-BREASTED 有胸脯 7 (in adjectives 构成形容词）having the type of chest or breasts mentioned 胸脯或乳 房）…的：as爪aH-bre〇5te<t^iiH-breastedivoman 乳房 小 / 丰 _ 的女子 _◊ bare-breasted 裸胸<>出6>^1(^- breasted maZe
o/the species这个物种4<秦黄色胸部的雄性 —see also double-breasted, single-breasted
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HEART 心 8 [C] (//Yera〇/) the part of the body where the feelings and emotions are thought to
be 心食；情感：a trouWed breast忧虑的心情
—see also chimney breast r?T?il see beat v., clean adj.
* verfc [VN】1 to reach the top of a hill, etc.登上…
的顶部：As breasted the ridlge, they saw the vaHey
amHafce be/ore them.他们到达山脊时山谷和湖泊尽收眼
底。2
to
push through sth，touching it with your chest 挺胸从…中挤过：He strode fnto the ocean,
breasting the waves.他挺胸顶着波浪大步走进海里。
breast-bone /'brestbaun; NAmE -boun/ noun the long flat bone in the chest that the
seven top pairs of ribs are
connected to 胸骨 H171 sternum
— picture
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BODY
breast-feed /'brestflrd/ verb (breast-fed, breast-fed /-fed/) [V，VN] when a
woman breastfeeds, she feeds her baby with milk from her breasts 用每乳喂养；哺乳
—compare
bottle-feed, nurse v.(6) breastplate /'brestpleit/ noun a piece of armour worn by
soldiers in the past to protect the upper front part of the body (古时士兵护胸)胸铠 ,breast 'pocket noun a pocket on a shirt, or on
the outside or inside of the part of a jacket t±iat covers the chest (衣服）胸部的口袋一picture o page R22 'breast pump noun a device for getting milk from a woman’s breasts, so that her baby can
be fed later from a bottle吸奶器；吸乳器
breast-stroke /'breststrauk; NAmE -strouk/ noun [U, sing.] a style of swimming that you do on your front, moving your
arms and legs away from your body and then back towards it in a circle 蛙泳一picture o
SWIMMING
breath O-w /bree/ noun
1 [U] the air that you take into your lungs and send out again呼吸的空气：ffis breath smeit 〇/ gar〖ic.他呼出.的
气中有矢蒜森。◊ bad
breath (= that smells bad) 口臭◊ We had to stop for
breath before we got to the top. 不得不喘口气，然后再登山命。〇S/ie was very shortc^ breath (= had
difficulty breathing).她呼吸很困事。2 [C] an amount of air that enters
the lungs at one time —次 吸入的空气：to take a deep breath深深吸一口气◊ ffe recited the
whoZe poem in one breath.他一
口气背 jij 了整 篇诗i。3 〜of stA [sing.] a small amount of sth;
slight evidence of sth 微量；迹象：a breath qf suspicfon/scandai
—丝休疑；丑闻的嫌疑4a〜of air, wind [sing.] (literary) a slight movement of air (空气 的）微微流拂IT»I71 a breath of
(fresh) 'air clean air breathed in after being indoors or in a dirty atmos- phere 新鲜空气；透气：We7〖 get a breath 〇/介esh air at Zunchrime.我彳ii午餐盼出去透透气。a breath of fresh ‘air a person, thing or place
that is new and different and therefore interesting and exciting 令人耳■目一新的
人（或事物、地方.).the breath'of ’life to/for sG
("ferary)
an essential part of a person’s existence 某人的 食粮
get your ’breath (again/back) (8r£) (also catch your breath NAmE, Brt) to breathe normally again after running or doing some
tiring exercise 恢复正常呼 ^ hold your 'breath 1 to stop breathing for a
short time 闭气；屏气：HoW your breath and count
to ten•屏 住呼吸，—到十_。2 to be anxious while you are