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Your armpit is the soft area under your arm, where your arm joins your shoulder - the place you might put . People also use "armpit" as a rude, joking way to describe a place that is dirty, ugly, or unpleasant, like "this town is the armpit of the country."
腋下;(戲稱)又髒又爛的地方
組成arm + pit (a hollow or hole) - literally "the hollow of the arm"
同家族的字
- pitshares "pit", meaning a hollow, hole, or low spot
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
armpitnoun/ˈɑɹmˌpɪt/
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The cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.
- She stood a couple of feet away from me […] exposing an edge of brassière strap at her armpit―exposing the armpit itself, a muscular hollow shadowed with fine stubble and faintly streaked with talcum.
- Unilever brought its Rexona deodorant to China a decade ago, dreaming of a market with 2.6 billion armpits.
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derogatorySomewhere or something unpleasant or undesirable.
- the armpit of America
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。