身上的那一段，到餐盤上的那一塊
同一個身體部位，一個講活著的腿，一個講切下來當食物的腿。
upper leg · noun · A2
the top part of your leg, between your knee and your hip. It is the thickest part of the leg and holds your strongest leg muscles.
大腿
核心畫面
Run your hand up your own leg: past the knee, the leg gets thick and solid before it meets your hip. That thick upper section is the thigh — the part that does the work when you stand up, climb , or push a bicycle uphill.
「膝蓋以上、髖部以下的那一段粗肉」。你用手從膝蓋往上摸，會摸到腿突然變厚實——那一段就是 thigh。它是全身肌肉最…更多收起
「膝蓋以上、髖部以下的那一段粗肉」。你用手從膝蓋往上摸，會摸到腿突然變厚實——那一段就是 thigh。它是全身肌肉最厚的地方之一，站起來、爬樓梯、騎車上坡靠的都是它。記位置有個簡單的分法：膝蓋以下細的那截是 shin/calf，膝蓋以上厚的這截才是 thigh。One branch
原始詞典資料2 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。
thighnoun/θaɪ/
- 1
The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee.
- I coniure thee by Rosalines bright eyes, By her High forehead, and her Scarlet lip, By her Fine foote, Straight leg, and Quiuering thigh, And the Demeanes, that there Adiacent lie, That in thy likenesse thou appeare to vs.
- About ten days ago, in cocking a pistol in the guard-room at Marcau, he accidentally shot himself through the Thigh.
- 2
That part of the leg of vertebrates (or sometimes other animals) which corresponds to the human thigh in position or function; the tibia of a horse, the tarsus of a bird; the third leg-section of an insect.
- Add the chicken thighs, close the bag, and squish the marinade to coat the chicken.
- The newly discovered dinosaur Brontomerus mcintoshi may have used its huge muscular thighs to kick predators and rivals.
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。