英语词典 · 单词释义
neck
英 [nek] 美 [nɛk]
这里集中整理“neck”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 脖子；衣领；海峡
- vi. 搂著脖子亲吻；变狭窄
- vt. 使变细；与…搂著脖子亲吻
- n. (Neck)人名；(德、意、英)内克
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: necks;第三人称单数: necks;过去式: necked;过去分词: necked;现在分词: necking;
中文词源
neck 颈，脖子
词源不详，可能来自PIE*kneug,弯，转，来自PIE*ken,弯，转，压，词源同nook.引申词义颈，脖子。
英文词源
- neck
- neck: [OE] Neck originally meant only the ‘back or nape of the neck’ (that is what its modern German relative nacken denotes, and in Old English times the usual word for ‘neck’ in general was heals). It seems to go back to a prehistoric Indo-European base *knoksignifying ‘high point, ridge’, which also produced Irish cnoc ‘hill’. The use of the verb neck for ‘kiss and cuddle’ dates back at least to the early 19th century.
- neck (n.)
- Old English hnecca "neck, nape, back of the neck" (a fairly rare word) from Proto-Germanic *hnekk- "the nape of the neck" (cognates: Old Frisian hnekka, Middle Dutch necke, Dutch nek, Old Norse hnakkr, Old High German hnach, German Nacken "neck"), with no certain cognates outside Germanic, though Klein's sources suggest PIE *knok- "high point, ridge" (source of Old Irish cnocc, Welsh cnwch, Old Breton cnoch "hill").
The more usual Old English words were hals (the general Germanic word, cognate with Gothic, Old Norse, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, German hals), cognate with Latin collum (see collar (n.)); and sweora, swira "neck, nape," probably also from a PIE root meaning "column" (cognate with Old English swer "column," Sanskrit svaru- "post").
Transferred senses attested from c. 1400. Phrase neck of the woods (American English) is attested from 1780 in the sense of "narrow stretch of woods;" 1839 with meaning "settlement in a wooded region." To stick one's neck out "take a risk" is first recorded 1919, American English. Horses running neck and neck is attested from 1799. - neck (v.)
- "to kiss, embrace, caress," 1825 (implied in necking) in northern England dialect, from neck (n.). Compare Middle English halsen "to embrace or caress affectionately, to fondle sexually," from hals (n.) "neck." Earlier, neck as a verb meant "to kill by a strike on the neck" (mid-15c.). Related: Necked.
双语例句
- 1. He shouted at his brother, his neck veins bulging.
- 他朝他的兄弟吼叫，脖子上青筋暴突。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. I shivered and pulled my scarf more tightly round my neck.
- 我打了个寒战，用围巾把脖子围得更紧了。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. He had twined his chubby arms around Vincent's neck.
- 他胖乎乎的双臂搂住文森特的脖子。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Acupressure is used to release tension spots in the shoulders and neck.
- 指压按摩用于缓解肩部和颈部的紧张。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. That contract proved to be a millstone around his neck.
- 那个合同结果成了他的一个负担。
来自柯林斯例句
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