詞彙精選：breast的用法和辨析
一、詳細釋義：
n.
乳房，乳腺
例句：
The baby was being nursed at its mother's breast.
那個孩子正在吃母親的奶。
例句：
She wears a low-cut dress which reveals her breasts.
她穿了一件露乳溝的低胸連衣裙。
胸脯，胸部
例句：
He struck his breast in a dramatic gesture.
他動作誇張地捶打着自己的胸膛。
例句：
He reached into his breast pocket for his cigar case.
他把手伸進胸前口袋裏拿雪茄煙盒。
心情；心窩，胸懷
例句：
The verse rose up to fire his breast with inspiration.
這首詩激發了他的靈感。
例句：
The battle roared; a sound calculated to arouse the sublimest emotions in the breast of the soldier.
戰場上吼聲震天，意在喚起士兵們最昂揚的鬥志。
v.
以胸對着，挺胸迎…而上 [T]
例句：
Who is the first to breast the tape?
誰第一個到終點的？
例句：
The runner breasted the tape.
賽跑者以胸部觸線。
堅毅地面對，與…搏鬥 [T]
例句：
The ship was breasting the waves.
輪船在破浪前進。
例句：
He breasted every trouble as it came.
他勇敢地迎接每個困難。
升高，攀登 [T]
例句：
The coach breasted a slight incline.
馬車上一個緩坡。
例句：
He breasted a rise and looked down.
他登上高處往下看。
二、詞義辨析：
breast,bosom,chest
這些名詞均含“胸，胸部”之意。breast指人或動物的胸部或胸部的前面，也指男人或女人的乳房。bosom文學用詞，與breast同義，特指女性的乳房，也可用作比喻。chest指胸膛，即肋骨所包圍的部分。
三、相關短語：
chicken breast
n.[醫]雞胸
breast drill
胸壓式手搖鑽，腳搖鑽
breast feeding
母乳餵養，人乳哺育
pigeon breast
胸骨凸出畸形，雞胸
breast cancer
n. 乳癌,乳腺癌
breast pocket
n. 小袋, 胸袋
四、參考例句：
Do a monthly breast self-exam.
每月進行胸部自我檢查
Success swelled his breast with pride.
成功使他心裏充滿了自豪感。
She developed a malignant breast tumor.
她得了惡性乳腺瘤。
She spent hours practising the breast stroke.
她花了數小時練習蛙泳。
We'll eat chicken breast fillets.
我們準備吃雞脯肉片。
He was shot through the breast.
他被子彈射穿胸部。
He bears it as a badge on the breast.
他把這佩在胸前當作徽章。
The fluffy, peachy-beige breast feather immediately suggested a mourning dove.
這種毛茸茸的杏黃色胸羽馬上讓人想到了哀鳩。
The breast can be cut into portions for grilling.
胸脯肉可以切成小塊燒烤。
O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast!
哦，背離慈愛胸懷的頑固不化的流亡者！
