limb

limb音标

英 [lɪm]

美 [lɪm]

limb基本释义

n.肢体；枝干；树枝

vt.肢解

limb用法及例句

n.(名词)

翼，翅膀

分支

肢，臂，腿，脚

大树枝，主枝

延伸部分

突出部，突出物

分度弧

【天】边缘

【数】刻度圈

【植】叶边

执行者，代理人

v.(动词)

肢解（躯体）

给...截肢，割断...的四肢，切断...之手足

从（砍倒的树上）截去树枝，砍树枝

n.(名词)

[C]肢 a leg or arm of a person or animal

[C]大树枝 a branch of a tree

noun

1. any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm

e.g. the arm of the record playeran arm of the seaa branch of the sewer

Synonym: armbranch

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

e.g. the limb of the sextant

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

e.g. the upper limb of the bow

4. one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: armlegwingflipper

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

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

Synonym: tree branch

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

e.g. 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. 树枝The limbs of a tree are its branches.

e.g. 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. 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.

e.g. 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. 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.

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

1. 边缘：此外在月球背后边缘(Limb)的一些区域,则需要等待适当的日子,到月球的天秤动(Librations月球运动中的轻微摆动) 将它们带至我们见到的一面的边缘时,始可以见到(我们只能见到整个月球表面的百分之五十九).

2. 肢：腿(leg )不说腿,而要称为长肢(limb),妻子(wife)也不能直呼妻子,而要以女士(lady)相称. 另外,「乳房」也不能说,只好以胸怀(bosom )来一笔带过.

常用例句

词汇搭配

用作名词(n.)

生命危险one's survival from accident or injury

用作名词(n.)

He was very tall with long limbs.他个儿很高,四肢很长。

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

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

amputate a limb截肢

cut off the limb砍掉树枝

stretch limbs伸展四肢

形容词+～

fallen limb落下的树枝

artificial limb假肢

the lower limb下肢

weak limbs软弱无力的四肢

介词+～

tremble in every limb四肢发抖

on a limb在树枝上

out on a limb处于孤立

He had an artificial limb, for he had lost a leg in the war.

出自：C. Blackwood

They climbed down from..the lorries and stretched their stiff limbs.

出自：M. Scammell

词源解说

☆ 直接源自古英语的lim，意为肢。

近义词

临近词

bad boy[法] 不良少年, 反叛...

descendant后裔

rascal淘气鬼

child小孩

extremity极端

appendage附加物

offshoot分枝

arm臂

offspring后代

scamp无赖

leg腿

bough大树枝

tree branch树叉, 树枝

imp小恶魔

branch分部

shoot发射

wing翅膀

part部分

scion后裔

member成员

Limba

limbs

limbus

limby

Limbe

limbb

Limbay

limber

Limbu

Limbek

limbal

Lima

相关列句

There were no limb bones.(没有四肢的骨骼。)

Explain, thou limb of Satan, or thy time is come!(你这家伙，解释一下吧，不然你的末日就到了！)

You got to find out where the shadow of the limb falls at midnight, and that's where you dig!(你得弄清楚夜半时分，伸出的树杈的影子落在什么地方，然后就在那儿挖才行！)

He stretched himself out under the bench, did not move a limb, and behaved as if he were stone dead.(他直挺挺地躺在长凳下，四肢一动也不动，表现得像死了一样。)

Trembling in every limb, Peter answered, "Yes!"(彼得浑身发抖，回答说：“是的！”)

We want to understand how limb design determines the energy costs of walking and running.(我们想了解肢体结构是如何决定步行和奔跑时的能量消耗。)

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。)

He looks up -- sees one cross a limb overhead.(他向上看——看见一个黑影掠过头顶的树枝。)

They found that salamander regeneration begins when a clump of cells called blastema forms at the tip of a lost limb.(他们发现，蝾螈再生是从一团被称为芽基的细胞在断肢顶端形成的时候开始的。)

Lobsters can reproduce a lost limb.(龙虾能使失去的肢体重新再生出来。)