中文词源
breast 胸部
来自PIE *bhreus, 膨胀，鼓起。词源同brisket, 胸肉。
英语词源
- breast
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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.
权威例句
- 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。
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