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/lʌŋ/
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.
肺
複數 lungs
核心畫面
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…更多收起
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。原始詞典資料4 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。
Lungname
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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[.]
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。