breast

英 [brest] 美[brɛst]

n. 乳房，胸部；胸怀；心情
vt. 以胸对着；与…搏斗

近义词 emotion heart sensibility inner feeling core spirit soul conscience sentiment self psyche compunction

CET6 考研 TEM4 CET4 核心词汇中频词

英英释义

1. the front part of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen;: "he beat his breast in anger"

2. either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on the chest of a woman

3. meat carved from the breast of a fowl

同义词辨析

breast, bosom, chest

这些名词均含"胸，胸部"之意。

breast：指人或动物的胸部或胸部的前面，也指男人或女人的乳房。

bosom：文学用词，与breast同义，特指女性的乳房，也可用作比喻。

chest：指胸膛，即肋骨所包围的部分。

词组搭配

beat one's breast

make an exaggerated show of sorrow, despair, or regret

捶胸（以示悲哀，失望或懊悔之情）

考试真题

But the message that everyone must screen for cancer has become so deep-rooted that when health care experts recommended that women under 50 and over 74 stop screening for breast cancer, it caused a riotous reaction among doctors, patients and advocacy groups.

What is the conventional view about women screening for breast cancer

Recently it was shown that they could be trained to be as accurate as humans at detecting breast cancer in images.

Research now says adding fiber to the teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.

The U.S. trails far behind every wealthy nation and many developing ones that have family-friendly work policies including paid parental leave, paid sick days and breast-feeding support, according to a 2007 study.

But telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age, that's a powerful message.

It turns out that those who consumed the highest levels of fiber during adolescence had a lower risk of developing breast cancer, compared to the women who ate the least fiber.

The bottom line here is the more fiber you eat, perhaps, a lower level of hormone in your body, and therefore, a lower lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.

This important study demonstrates that the more fiber you eat during your high school years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer in later life.

A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman's risk of breast cancer.

实用场景例句

She put the baby to her breast.: 她开始给婴儿哺乳。

breast cancer: 乳腺癌

breast milk: 母乳

She cradled the child against her breast.: 她把孩子抱在胸前。

A row of medals was pinned to the breast of his coat.: 他的外套胸前别着一排勋章。

breast feathers: 胸部羽毛

The robin has a red breast.: 知更鸟的胸部为红色。

chicken/turkey breasts: 鸡 / 火鸡胸脯肉

breast of lamb: 羊羔胸脯肉

a small-breasted/full-breasted woman: 乳房小 / 丰满的女子

bare-breasted: 裸胸

the yellow-breasted male of the species: 这个物种中有黄色胸部的雄性

a troubled breast: 忧虑的心情

As they breasted the ridge, they saw the valley and lake before them.: 他们到达山脊时山谷和湖泊尽收眼底。

He strode into the ocean, breasting the waves.: 他挺胸顶着波浪大步走进海里。

The battle roared; a sound calculated to arouse the sublimest emotions in the breast of the soldier.: 战场上吼声震天，意在唤起士兵们最昂扬的斗志。

The cock's breast is tinged with chestnut.: 这只公鸡胸部羽毛呈浅栗色，带有白色细条纹。

He moved out from beneath an awning, reaching for something inside the breast of his overcoat...: 他离开遮阳篷，手伸进大衣前胸部找东西。

He reached into his breast pocket for his cigar case.: 他把手伸进胸前口袋里拿雪茄烟盒。

...a chicken breast with vegetables.: 鸡脯肉拌蔬菜

...breast of lamb.: 羊胸肉

The president beat his breast and called that deal a mistake.: 总裁捶胸顿足，称那是个错误的交易。

I might as well make a clean breast of it. I have been living as a woman since 1975.: 我还是坦白的好。我从1975起就变成女人了。

The verse rose up to fire his breast with inspiration...: 这首诗激发了他的灵感。

He struck his breast in a dramatic gesture.: 他动作夸张地捶打着自己的胸膛。

As my newborn cuddled at my breast, her tiny fingers stroked my skin.: 我刚出生的宝宝蜷伏在我胸前，细小的手指触碰着我的肌肤。

She wears a low-cut dress which reveals her breasts...: 她穿了一件露乳沟的低胸连衣裙。

词态变化

复数: breasts;

中文词源

breast 胸部

来自PIE *bhreus, 膨胀，鼓起。词源同brisket, 胸肉。

英文词源

breast: breast: [OE] Breast can be traced back via prehistoric Germanic *breustam to an Indo- European base *bhrus- or *bhreus-, whose other descendants, including Old Saxon brustian ‘bud’, Middle High German briustern ‘swell’, and Irish brú ‘abdomen, womb’, suggest that the underlying reference contained in the word may be to the growth and swelling of the female breasts. By the time it reached Old English, as brēost, it had already developed a more general, non-sex-specific sense ‘chest’, but the meaning element ‘mammary gland’ has remained throughout, and indeed over the past two hundred years ‘chest’ has grown steadily more archaic.
breast (n.): Old English breost "breast, bosom; mind, thought, disposition," from Proto-Germanic *breustam "breast" (cognates: Old Saxon briost, Old Frisian briast, Old Norse brjost, Dutch borst, German brust, Gothic brusts), perhaps literally "swelling" and from PIE root *bhreus- "to swell, sprout" (cognates: Middle Irish bruasach "having a broad, strong chest," Old Irish bruinne "breast"). The spelling conforms to the Scottish and northern England dialectal pronunciation. Figurative sense of "seat of the emotions" was in Old English.

双语例句

1. The president beat his breast and called that deal a mistake.: 总裁捶胸顿足，称那是个错误的交易。

2. Cancer of the breast in young women is uncommon.: 乳腺癌在年轻女子当中并不常见。

3. The breast can be cut into portions for grilling.: 胸脯肉可以切成小块烧烤。

4. He reached into his breast pocket for his cigar case.: 他把手伸进胸前口袋里拿雪茄烟盒。

5. Breast self-examination is invaluable for detecting cancer in its very early stages.: 乳房自检对早期癌症的发现是极为重要的。