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If someone is pigeon-chested, the middle of the chest sticks out in a narrow, bony way, instead of looking flat or softly rounded. It is a body shape, not an illness you catch, and not a rude joke about looking like a bird — though that is where the picture comes from: a pigeon's breast is round and pushed forward. Doctors have a Latin name for a strong form of it, but ordinary English just says pigeon-chested or pigeon chest. It is a plain describing word, a little old-fashioned, more British than American. You would not shout it at someone; it can make a person feel looked at.
雞胸(胸口中間凸出。英語用「鴿子」,台灣口語用「雞」)
組成pigeon + chested: the chest sticks out like a pigeon's breast.
同家族的字
- pigeonthe bird that gave the picture
- pigeon-toedsame pigeon used for another body shape
原始詞典資料1 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。
pigeon-chestedadj
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Having a pigeon chest.
- Barça had frozen. Alexander-Arnold saw it, caught Divok Origi’s eyes and pinged the perfect cross for a double-take of a winning goal. This was a 20-year-old local lad, product of down the road, out-thinking Barcelona, making them look like callow, pigeon-chested schoolboys.
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。