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limb
[英] [lim] [美] [lɪm] 生词本

n.

vt.

  • 易混淆的单词：Limb  

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1. N-COUNT 肢；臂；腿 Your limbs are your arms and legs. 

  • She would be able to stretch out her cramped limbs and rest for a few hours.

    她将能伸展一下蜷缩的四肢，休息几个小时。

2. N-COUNT 树枝 The limbs of a tree are its branches. 

  • This entire rickety structure was hanging from the limb of an enormous leafy tree.

    这整个快要散架的搭建物吊挂在一棵枝繁叶茂的大树的枝杈上。

3. PHRASE 冒着遭受失败（或指责）的风险；处于孤立无援的境地 If someone goes out on a limb, they do something they strongly believe in even though it is risky or extreme, and is likely to fail or be criticized by other people. 

  • They can see themselves going out on a limb, voting for a very controversial energy bill.

    他们可以预见到要是给极具争议性的能源法案投赞成票，可能会陷入孤立。

4. PHRASE 撕裂…的肢体 If someone threatens to tear you limb from limb, they mean that they are extremely angry with you, and may use violence against you. 

  • The police were lucky they found him before I did. I would have torn him limb from limb.

    警察很幸运，比我先找到了他。不然我真会把他大卸八块的。

5.   to risk life and limb→see: life; 
Noun

1. one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper

2. any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

3. (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

4. either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip;

  • "the upper limb of the bow"

5. the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles;

  • "the limb of the sextant"

6. any projection that is thought to resemble an arm;

  • "the arm of the record player"
  • "an arm of the sea"
  • "a branch of the sewer"

体育

  • 1.肢
  • 2.弓臂

动物学

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  • 1.肢

医学

  • 1.①肢，肢体：身体用于运动或攫取的附肢。在人类，为上肢或下肢及其所有组成部分，又称membrum 〔NA〕，曾称extremitas。在胚胎期，肢体分为四个主要部分，即肢带骨(zonoskeleton)包括肩胛骨和锁骨(作为一个单位)和髋骨，柱骨(stylopodium)包括肱骨和股骨，肢干(zygopodium)包括桡骨、尺骨、胫骨和腓骨和端骨(autopodium)包括手和足；②似上肢或下肢的某个结构或部分

植物学

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  • 1.冠檐

生物学

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  • 1.齿肢
1. We tear the enemies limb from limb.
我们猛击敌人。

来自《简明英汉词典》

2. Anyone who could climb all these stairs was sound enough in wind and limb.
任何能爬上这么多阶梯的人体格非常强健。

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3. His refusal to agree left him out on a limb.
他拒不表示同意，致使自己处于孤立地位。

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4. I risked life and limb to get here on time.
我冒着生命危险准时赶到这里。

来自《简明英汉词典》

5. She sat on a limb of the tree and looked down.
她坐在一根大树枝上往下看。

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6. The car was badly smashed, but he was lucky to escape with life and limb.
汽车被撞得一塌糊涂，可他却很幸运地安全脱险了。

来自《现代汉英综合大词典》