belly

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n. 腹部, 食欲 vt. 使鼓起 vi. 鼓起, 匍匐前进

发音

US
/ˈbɛli/

词形变化

bellies 复数 bellies bellied bellies 三单 bellying bellying 现在分词 bellied 过去式 bellied 过去分词

别名

bely bellie

教材释义与例句

名词

腹部；胃；食欲

the middle part of an animal's body, near its stomach

动词

涨满；鼓起

to fill with air and become rounder in shape

动词

使鼓起

释义与例句

n. A2
  1. 1.

    The abdomen (especially a fat one).

    You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.

  2. 2.

    stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)

    My belly was full of wine.

  3. 3.

    uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)

    可数 医学
  4. 4.

    The lower fuselage of an airplane.

  5. 5.

    The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).

    the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship

  6. 6.

    The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).

    The main curved portion of a knife blade.

  7. 7.

    The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).

    The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.

    建筑
v.
  1. 1.

    To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.

  2. 2.

    To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.

    不及物

    1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I" winds from sternward Bore us onward with bellying canvas ...

    1930, Otis Adelbert Kline, The Prince of Peril, serialized in Argosy, Chapter 1, The building stood on a circular foundation, and its walls, instead of mounting skyward in a straight line, bellied outward and then curved in again at the top.

  3. 3.

    To cause to swell out; to fill.

    及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

stomach abdomen paunch venter

上位词 10

inside fat bump interior hump swelling bulge prominence jut protrusion

下位词 7

pot corporation tummy underbelly bay window potbelly underbody

部分词 10

gut abdomen abdominal ab bowel intestine navel bellybutton abdominal aorta abdominal cavity

整体词 5

body trunk torso vertebrate craniate
动词

同义词 1

belly out

上位词 5

swell intumesce swell up tumefy tumesce

相关短语

belly dance n. 肚皮舞 belly flop n. <美口>肚子先着水的跳水笨动作 belly button [医] 脐孔 belly up 破产的 belly buster belly busters belly buttons belly laugh n. 纵情大笑；（抖动肚子的）哈哈大笑 belly laughs (belly-laugh 的复数) n. 纵情大笑；（抖动肚子的）哈哈大笑 belly dances belly dancer n. (女子)肚皮舞,摆腹舞[亦作 belly dance,danse duventre] vi. 表演肚皮舞(或摆腹舞) belly dancers (belly-dancer 的复数) n. (女子)肚皮舞,摆腹舞[亦作 belly dance,danse duventre] vi. 表演肚皮舞(或摆腹舞) belly of the beast belly flopper [美国北部和中北部方言]；【跳水】胸腹先着水的跳水动作

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *balgiz Proto-West Germanic *balgi Old English bielġ Middle English bely English belly Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and budge. See also bellows. For the belly — bellows connection compare typologically Macedonian мев (mev, “abdomen, belly; bellows”). Also compare Ancient Greek φῦσα (phûsa, “bellows; bladder; ...”), Latin venter — vēsīca, Russian пу́зо (púzo) — пузы́рь (puzýrʹ), пузырёк (puzyrjók).

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