中文词源
chest 胸腔，大箱子
来自拉丁词cista, 箱子，词源同cistern.
英语词源
- chest
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chest: [OE] Chest comes ultimately from Greek kístē ‘box, basket’. In Latin this became cista (source of English cistern [13]). In prehistoric times the word was borrowed into Germanic as *kistā, which was the source of Old English cest. This still meant ‘box’, a sense which continued in isolation until the 16th century, when it was first applied to the ‘thorax’ – the basis of the metaphor presumably being that the ribs enclose the heart and lungs like a box. It has since replaced breast as the main term for the concept.
=> cistern - chest (n.)
- Old English cest "box, coffer, casket," from Proto-Germanic *kista (cognates: Old Norse and Old High German kista, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, German kiste, Dutch kist), an early borrowing from Latin cista "chest, box," from Greek kiste "a box, basket," from PIE *kista "woven container." Meaning extended to "thorax" 1520s, replacing breast (n.), on the metaphor of the ribs as a box for the organs. Chest of drawers is from 1590s.
权威例句
- 1. I feel it's done me good to get it off my chest.
- 我感觉吐吐苦水对我有好处。
- 2. Breathe out and ease your knees in toward your chest.
- 呼气，膝部放松向胸部靠拢。
- 3. After more misses, they finally put two arrows into the lion's chest.
- 又射偏了几次之后,他们终于把两支箭射入了狮子的胸膛.
- 4. Never keep on exercising if you have even the slightest chest pain.
- 即使你只感到很轻微的胸部疼痛，也不要继续锻炼。
- 5. He started flailing around and hitting Vincent in the chest.
- 他的手臂开始胡乱挥舞起来，打在了文森特胸口上。
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