brow

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n. 眉毛, 额 [医] 额, 眉, 睫毛

发音

US /bɹaʊ/

词形变化

brows 复数 brows browing brows 三单 browing 现在分词 browed 过去式 browed 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

眉，眉毛；额；表情

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The bony ridge over the eyes, upon which the eyebrows are located.

  2. 2.

    The eyebrow.

  3. 3.

    The forehead.

  4. 4.

    Aspect; appearance; facial expression.

    比喻
  5. 5.

    The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill.

    the brow of a precipice

  6. 6.

    The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay.

    航海 交通
  7. 7.

    The first tine of an antler's beam.

  8. 8.

    A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal.

    商务 采矿
  9. 9.

    The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp.

    航海 交通
v.
  1. 1.

    To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

forehead eyebrow hilltop supercilium

上位词 9

top hair tip crown feature peak summit crest lineament

部分词 1

trichion

整体词 1

face

相关短语

brow ridge brow ridges brow level brow levels brow job brow-level sweat of one's brow beetle brow Weatherby brow knit one's brow sweat of the brow Scouse brow eye brow Berry Brow

词源

From Middle English browe, from Old English brū, from Proto-West Germanic *brāwu, from Proto-Germanic *brūwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“brow”). Cognate with Scots broo (“brow”), Dutch brauw (“brow”), German Braue (“eyebrow”), Danish, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish bryn (“brow”), Faroese, Icelandic brún (“brow”). See also Middle Irish brúad, Tocharian B pärwāne (“eyebrows”), Lithuanian bruvi̇̀s, Serbo-Croatian obrva (“eyebrow”), Russian бровь (brovʹ, “brow”), Ancient Greek ὀφρύς (ophrús, “eyebrow”), Sanskrit भ्रू (bhrū, “eyebrow”)), Persian ابرو (abru, “eyebrow”), Khowar بروُ (bruú, “eyebrow”).

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