cheek

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n. 颊, 厚颜, 脸蛋 [医] 颊

发音

US /t͡ʃiːk/

词形变化

cheeks 复数 cheeks cheeked cheeking cheeks 三单 cheeking 现在分词 cheeked 过去式 cheeked 过去分词

别名

cheeke

教材释义与例句

名词

面颊，脸颊；臀部

the soft round part of your face below each of your eyes

动词

无礼地向…讲话，对…大胆无礼

to speak rudely or with disrespect to someone, especially to someone older such as your teacher or parents

释义与例句

n. B2 Oxf 5000
  1. 1.

    The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer surface of the sides of the oral cavity.

    可数 不可数 医学
  2. 2.

    The lower part of the buttocks that is often exposed beneath very brief underwear, swimwear, or extremely short shorts.

    可数 非正式 不可数 医学
  3. 3.

    Impudence.

    比喻 非正式 不可数 可数

    You’ve got some cheek, asking me for money!

  4. 4.

    One of the genae, flat areas on the sides of a trilobite's cephalon.

    可数 非正式 不可数 生物
  5. 5.

    One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.

    pump-cheek, pump-cheeks, a piece of wood cut out fork-shaped in which the brake is fastened by means of a bolt and can thus move around and move the upper box of the pump up and down

    可数 不可数 航海 交通
  6. 6.

    The branches of a bridle bit.

    可数 不可数 复数形式
  7. 7.

    Either side of an axehead.

    可数 不可数
  8. 8.

    The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.

    可数 不可数 艺术 工程
  9. 9.

    One of the pieces of a machine, or of timber or stonework, that form corresponding sides or a similar pair.

    可数 不可数

    the cheeks of a vice

    the cheeks of a gun carriage

v.
  1. 1.

    To be impudent towards.

    Don't cheek me, you little rascal!

  2. 2.

    To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle.

  3. 3.

    To put or keep something in one’s cheek.

    The squirrel cheeked some nuts before heading back to its nest.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 7

face nerve brass impudence impertinence boldness buttock

上位词 6

feature disrespect aggressiveness body part discourtesy lineament

下位词 2

audacity audaciousness

部分词 2

glute gluteus

整体词 4

face body trunk torso
动词

上位词 2

talk speak

相关短语

cheek by jowl 紧密地 cheek pouch n. 颊囊（猿等用以暂时贮藏食物之用）; 嗛 cheek pouches cheek tooth 颊牙 cheek teeth [医] 颊牙, 后牙 cheek to cheek cheek to jowl cheek guard cheek plate cheek guards cheek plates cheek bone [医] 颧骨 cheek bones cheek up

词源

From Middle English cheeke, cheke, cheoke, choke, from Old English ċēce, ċēace, ċēoce (“cheek; jaw”), from Proto-West Germanic *kākā, *keukā (“jaw, cheek”), from Proto-Germanic *kēkǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sooke (“cheek”), West Frisian tsjeak (“jaw”), Dutch kaak (“jaw; cheek”), Swedish käke (“jaw; jowl”), Norwegian kjake (“jaw”), Old Norse kók (“mouth; gullet”).

来源：wiktionary