necks

英 [neks]

美 [neks]

n.  颈; 脖子; 衣领; 领子; 领圈; 有…衣领的; 有…脖子的
v.  搂着脖子亲吻; 相拥互吻
neck的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 颈;脖子
  Yourneckis the part of your body which joins your head to the rest of your body.
  1. She threw her arms round his neck and hugged him warmly...
     她伸出双臂搂住他的脖子，热情地拥抱他。
  2. He was short and stocky, and had a thick neck.
     他矮壮结实，脖子很粗。
• N-COUNT 衣领;领口
  Theneckof an article of clothing such as a shirt, dress, or sweater is the part which surrounds your neck.
  1. ...the low, ruffled neck of her blouse...
     她的打褶低胸的衬衫领口
  2. He wore a blue shirt open at the neck.
     他穿了件蓝衬衫，领口敞开着。
• N-COUNT (瓶子、吉他等的)颈状部位，细长部分，颈部
  Theneckof something such as a bottle or a guitar is the long narrow part at one end of it.
  1. Catherine gripped the broken neck of the bottle.
     凯瑟琳紧握着破裂的瓶颈。
  2. ...cancer of the neck of the womb.
     宫颈癌
• V-RECIP 搂着脖子亲吻;相拥而吻
  If two peopleare necking, they are kissing each other in a sexual way.
  1. They sat talking and necking in the car for another ten minutes...
     他们在车里又坐了10分钟，边说边搂着亲热。
  2. I found myself behind a curtain, necking with my best friend's wife.
     我意识到自己在帘子后面吻着至友的妻子。
• N-SING (赛马)以微弱优势(获胜)，险(胜)
  If a horse wins a raceby a neck, it wins by a very small distance.
  1. Cee En Cee went on to win by a neck from Leigh Crofter.
     西恩西再次以微弱优势战胜莉·克罗夫特。
• PHRASE 密切监视;紧紧盯住
  If you say that someoneis breathing downyourneck, you mean that they are watching you very closely and checking everything you do.
  1. Most farmers have bank managers breathing down their necks.
     大部分农场主的一举一动都受到银行经理们的密切关注。
• PHRASE (尤指选举中)并驾齐驱，难分高低
  In a competition, especially an election, if two or more competitors areneck and neck, they are level with each other and have an equal chance of winning.
  1. The latest polls indicate that the two main parties are neck and neck...
     最近的一次民意测验显示两个主要政党难分高下。
  2. The party is running neck-and-neck with Labour.
     该党和工党目前是旗鼓相当。
• PHRASE (常指为实现某事)冒险
  If you say that someoneis riskingtheirneck, you mean they are doing something very dangerous, often in order to achieve something.
  1. I won't have him risking his neck on that motorcycle.
     我不会让他冒险骑那辆摩托车。
• PHRASE 保全(某人的工作或声誉)
  Tosavesomeone'sneckmeans to prevent them from losing their job or harming their reputation.
  1. He had enough friends in the right places to save his neck and cover up for him...
     他有很多朋友能保全他，帮他打掩护。
  2. He said the President was making a last ditch attempt to save his own neck.
     他说总统正在作最后的努力，希望保住自己的声誉。
• PHRASE 担风险;找麻烦;惹祸
  If youstickyourneck out, you bravely say or do something that might be criticized or might turn out to be wrong.
  1. During my political life I've earned myself a reputation as someone who'll stick his neck out, a bit of a rebel.
     我在政治生涯中敢冒风险、有点叛逆是小有名气的。
• PHRASE 担负;缠住
  If you say that you have somethingroundyourneckoraroundyourneck, you mean that it is your responsibility and it causes you a lot of worry.
  1. No-one should start working life with a debt round their neck...
     任何人都不该身背债务开始工作生涯。
  2. It's a legacy which will hang around the country's neck for some time to come.
     这项遗留问题在未来的一段时间内仍将困扰这个国家。
• PHRASE 深深陷入，被卷入(麻烦、罪行等)
  If you say that someone is in some sort of trouble or criminal activityup totheirneck, you mean that they are deeply involved in it.
  1. The black market was flourishing, everybody was corrupt, in it up to their necks...
     黑市繁荣，每个人都已堕落，深陷其中。
  2. He is probably up to his neck in debt.
     他很有可能债务缠身。
• PHRASE 地段;附近地区
  Someone or something that is from yourneck of the woodsis from the same part of the country as you are.
  1. It's so good to see you. What brings you to this neck of the woods?
     见到你真高兴，哪阵风把你吹来了？
• tohave a millstone roundyourneck→ see:millstone

双语例句

• Facing each other, the giraffes were managing to entwine their necks in the most astonishing manner
  长颈鹿正面对面地用力将脖子缠绕在一起，那种姿势令人大为惊诧。
• Their necks and lower back joints had significantly less range of motion.
  他们的脖子和后腰关节活动范围显著变小。
• Four skinny trees with skinny necks and pointy elbows like mine.
  四棵细瘦的树儿长着细细的脖颈和尖尖的肘骨，像我的一样。
• The horses, feeling slack reins, stretched down their necks to crop the tender spring grass.
  那几匹马觉得缰绳放松了，便都低下头去嚼那柔嫩的春草。
• Tame birds, when approached, will stretch out their necks and ruffle their neck feathering
  驯养的鸟儿在有人靠近时会伸长脖子，竖起颈羽。
• Necks and gizzards and livers have to be cleaned and stuffed into a cavity.
  火鸡的脖子，砂囊和肝脏需要进行清理并填回腹腔。
• Lightly built medium-sized dinosaur having extremely long limbs and necks with small heads and big brains and large eyes.
  身体轻而身材中等的恐龙，四只和脖子特别长，头小而脑大，大眼。
• They were up to their necks in trouble with the press.
  他们深深卷入了与报界的麻烦之中。
• Generation after generation inherited slightly longer necks, and the result is what we see in giraffes today.
  一代又一代的长颈鹿继承和遗传慢慢变长的长脖子，由此我们看到了现在的长颈鹿的结果。
• We have nearly broken our necks looking for you.
  我们到处找你，找得好苦啊。