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The narrow part of your body that joins your head to your shoulders. Two things about a neck drive everything else: its shape — a long, narrow part near the top of something — and its position — out front, the bit that pokes ahead and the bit that gets grabbed. From there come bottle-necks, strips of land, racing by a neck, and a whole crowd of body-part .

可以想成連著頭和肩膀那截又細又長的脖子。脖子有兩個特點帶動了所有其他用法：一是它的形狀——細細長長、長在頂端附近的那…更多收起可以想成連著頭和肩膀那截又細又長的脖子。脖子有兩個特點帶動了所有其他用法：一是它的形狀——細細長長、長在頂端附近的那一截；二是它的位置——伸在最前面，賽跑時先探出去的是它，被人揪住的也是它。從這兩點長出了瓶頸、狹長地帶、賽馬以一頸之差取勝，還有一大堆拿脖子來講的慣用語。

原始詞典資料21 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。

necknoun詞源 1/ˈnɛk/

  • 1

    anatomymedicinesciencesThe part of the body connecting the head and the trunk found in humans and some animals.

    • Giraffes have long necks.
    • Mother, help me, there's a head attached to my neck and I'm in it.
  • 2

    The corresponding part in some other anatomical contexts.

  • 3

    The part of a shirt, dress etc., which fits a person's neck.

  • 4

    The tapered part of a bottle toward the opening.

  • 5

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesThe slender tubelike extension atop an archegonium, through which the sperm swim to reach the egg.

    • Archegonia are surrounded early in their development by the juvenile perianth, through the slender beak of which the elongated neck of the fertilized archegonium protrudes.
  • 6

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe extension of any stringed instrument on which a fingerboard is mounted

  • 7

    A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.

  • 8

    engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesA reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it.

    • a neck forming the journal of a shaft
另外 8 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    The constriction between the root and crown of a tooth.

  • 10

    architectureThe gorgerin of a capital.

  • 11

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesA volcanic plug, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.

  • 12

    engineeringfirearmsgovernmentThe small part of a gun between the chase and the swell of the muzzle.

  • 13

    A person's life.

    • to risk one's neck; to save someone's neck
  • 14

    slanginformalA falsehood; a lie.

  • 15

    slangFellatio

    • Shorty throw neck like a geese She make me speak Portuguese
    • She drop neck for a check and a paystub
  • 16

    historicalA bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.

    • The person with 'the neck' stands in the centre, grasping it with both his hands
    • "The neck" is generally hung up in the farmhouse, where it remains for two or three years.

neckverb詞源 1/ˈnɛk/

  • 1

    slangTo hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate.

    • Go neck yourself.
  • 2

    informalTo intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle.

    • Alan and Betty were necking in the back of a car when Betty's dad caught them.
    • Molly had been in love with Sick Boy since he necked with her in a seedy disco-bar in Leith a few weeks ago. Sick Boy had made a drunken point about HIV transmission and to illustrate it had spent most of the night french-kissing her.
  • 3

    slangTo drink or swallow rapidly.

    • Actually, mostly I swan around in my silver sports car, necking drugs, and feeling sorry for myself.
    • In the dim light, punters sit sipping raspberry-flavoured Tokyo martinis, losing the freestyle sushi off their chopsticks or necking Asahi beer.
  • 4

    To decrease in diameter.

    • Since this temperature would place the bolt in its creep range, it will slowly stretch, necking down as it does so. Eventually it will get too thin to support the weight, and the bolt will break.

necknoun詞源 2

  • 1

    artsfolklorehistoryA shapeshifting water spirit in Germanic mythology and folklore; a nix.

    • The Neck no more upon the river sings. And no Mermaid to bleach her linen flings Upon the waves in the mild solar ray.
    • The beautiful Nix or Nixie who allures the young fisher or hunter to seek her embraces in the wave which brings his death, the Neck who seizes upon and drowns the maidens who sport upon his banks, the river-spirit who still yearly in some parts of Germany demands tribute of human life, are all forms of the ancient Nicor[.]

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。