喜樂美語

核心畫面

Two pictures share this word: the front of your body between neck and stomach, and a big strong box with a lid. English speakers feel them as related — both are containers with something valuable shut inside, a heart in one and treasure in the other — and the idiom about getting a worry off your chest sits right on that overlap.

這個字底下有兩個畫面：一個是身體從脖子到肚子之間的前側，一個是有蓋子的堅固大箱子。英文使用者感覺得到它們的相通之處—…更多收起這個字底下有兩個畫面：一個是身體從脖子到肚子之間的前側，一個是有蓋子的堅固大箱子。英文使用者感覺得到它們的相通之處——兩個都是把貴重的東西關在裡面的容器，一個裝著心臟，一個裝著財寶。而「把煩惱說出來」那句慣用語，正好就站在這個交會點上：把壓在胸口的東西搬出去。

From the picture

有蓋的大箱子

另一個畫面：同樣是把東西關在裡面的容器，只是這一個看得見、打得開。

chest (box) · noun · B2

A large strong box with a lid, used to keep or carry things such as clothes, tools, or treasure.

箱子 / 櫃

Also in this word

chest (body part) · noun · B2

The front part of your body between your neck and your stomach, where your heart and lungs are.

胸部 / 胸膛

原始詞典資料14 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。

Chestname

  • 1

    University of Chester, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.

chestnoun詞源 1/t͡ʃɛst/

  • 1

    A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.

    • The clothes are kept in a chest.
    • But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook, and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge,[…].
  • 2

    obsoleteA coffin.

  • 3

    The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.

    • You can take the money from the chest.
  • 4

    A chest of drawers.

  • 5

    anatomymedicinesciencesThe portion of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the homologous area in some other animals.

    • Holonyms: torso, trunk < body
    • She had a sudden pain in her chest.
  • 6

    The front (anterior) surface of this portion of the torso.

    • Holonyms: thorax; torso, trunk
    • He has a tattoo on his chest, and another on his upper back.
  • 7

    A female human's breasts.

    • He avoided being seen gazing at her chest, although he dearly longed to stare.
  • 8

    A hit or blow made with one's chest.

    • She scored with a chest into the goal.

chestverb詞源 1/t͡ʃɛst/

  • 1

    To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)

    • Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net.
  • 2

    To deposit in a chest.

  • 3

    obsoleteTo place in a coffin.

  • 4

    To handle, deal with.

    • Children being loud and annoying in public is a small price to pay for living and participating in society. Everyone goes through this cycle and you too were once that child. We can’t just lock them indoors. Chest it, sorry.

chestnoun詞源 2/t͡ʃɛst/

  • 1

    Debate; quarrel; strife; enmity.

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。