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If someone is musclebound, heavy training has given them very large muscles, but those muscles have gone stiff, so the body does not move freely. Shoulders look huge and a bit locked; arms cannot swing loosely. It is usually not a kind remark. Muscular and strong praise the body; musclebound quietly says too much gym, not enough easy movement. You hear it in sport, gyms, and everyday talk more than in doctors' notes. It is informal to neutral. You will also see it written muscle-bound, with a ; the meaning is the same. It is muscle plus bound, and bound here means held tight — as if the muscles have tied the body up.
肌肉練到又大又僵、動作反而不靈活。
原始詞典資料3 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。
muscleboundadj/ˈmʌsəlˌbaʊnd/
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Having pronounced muscle development through weightlifting, bodybuilding, or other physical exercise.
- Work til you're musclebound all night long / Gotta work til you're musclebound all night long
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derogatoryHaving excessive muscle (sometimes with implications of correspondingly inferior intellect).
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Ungainly as a result of muscle over-development.
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。