喜樂美語
  1. 1n/lʌŋ/肺

    One of the two organs inside your chest that you breathe with. Air goes into your lungs when you breathe in, and out again when you breathe out.

    「lung」就是中文的「肺」，人的胸腔裡左右各一個。英文最常用複數 lungs 講整組（healthy lungs、fill your lungs），要單指其中一邊時才用單數 a lung；中文一個「肺」字就包含兩邊，這是最容易忘記的地方。肺的畫面可以想成「胸口裡一個會脹大的軟袋子」——吸氣時空氣灌進去把它撐開，吐氣時再放掉，所以英文才會說 fill your lungs（把肺填滿）、lung capacity（這個袋子裝得下多少，也就是肺活量）。

    示範例句 · Example

    The doctor listened to Mei's lungs and said they sounded clear.

    中文翻譯醫生聽了美的肺，並說它們聽起來很乾淨。

    常見搭配

    • fill your lungs

      深吸一口氣、把肺吸滿

      to breathe in deeply so your lungs are full of air

      Stand up straight and fill your lungs before you sing.

    • lung capacity

      肺活量

      how much air your lungs can hold

      Running every day slowly builds up your lung capacity.

    • healthy lungs

      健康的肺

      lungs that work well

      Clean air and exercise help you keep healthy lungs.

    • air enters / goes into the lungs

      空氣進入肺部

      air travels down into the lungs when you breathe in

      When you breathe in, air goes into your lungs through your nose and mouth.

    • a collapsed lung

      肺塌陷（氣胸）

      a lung that has lost its air and gone flat, so a doctor has to help it fill again

      The nurse explained that a collapsed lung can be treated at the hospital.

core核心畫面

From the word’s history

From Middle English lunge, from Old English lungen; ultimately related to light 'not heavy'.

源自古英文 lungen，和 light「輕」出自同一個來源。

Wiktionary

Picture the pair of soft, sponge-like bags sitting inside your chest, on either side of your heart. They fill up when you breathe in and empty when you breathe out — that rising and falling of the chest is the lungs at work. The word names the organ itself, one of the two.

可以想成胸腔裡左右各一個像海綿一樣的軟袋子：吸氣時脹起來，吐氣時又扁下去，胸口的一起一伏就是它們在工作。lung 指的就是這個器官本身，而且是「一個」——所以講兩邊的時候要用複數 lungs。

lungs

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。

Lungname

  • 1

    A surname.

lungnoun/ˈlʌŋ/

  • 1

    anatomymedicinesciencesA biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.

    • I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.
  • 2

    Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.

    • He no longer has the lungs to play long rallies like he used to.
  • 3

    That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.

    • Afterwards he found that the vague feeling of alarm had spread to the clients of the underground railway, and that the Sunday excursionists began to return from all the South-Western "lungs" - Barnes, Wimbledon, Richmond Park, Kew, and so forth - at unnaturally early hours[.]

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