limb

英 [lɪm] 美 [lɪm]

• n. 肢体；枝干；树枝
• vt. 肢解

双解释义

n. (名词)

1. [C]肢

   a leg or arm of a person or animal

2. [C]大树枝

   a branch of a tree

详尽释义

n. 名词

1. 翼，翅膀
2. 分支
3. 肢，臂，腿，脚
4. 大树枝，主枝
5. 延伸部分
6. 突出部，突出物
7. 分度弧
8. 【天】边缘
9. 【数】刻度圈
10. 【植】叶边
11. 执行者，代理人

v. 动词

1. 肢解（躯体）
2. 给...截肢，割断...的四肢，切断...之手足
3. 从（砍倒的树上）截去树枝，砍树枝

英英释义

Noun:

1. one of the jointed appendages of an animal used for locomotion or grasping: arm; leg; wing; flipper

2. any of the main branches arising from the trunk or a bough of a tree

3. (astronomy) the circumferential edge of the apparent disc of the sun or the moon or a planet

4. either of the two halves of a bow from handle to tip;

   "the upper limb of the bow"
   

5. the graduated arc that is attached to an instrument for measuring angles;

   "the limb of the sextant"
   

6. any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm;

   "the arm of the record player"
   "an arm of the sea"
   "a branch of the sewer"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Men and women have four limbs; two arms and two legs.
   人都有四肢，两只胳膊两条腿。
2. He stood up and stretched his limbs.
   他站起来,伸了伸胳膊和腿。
3. A grey squirrel is scampering from limb to limb.
   一只灰色的松鼠在树枝间跳来跳去。
4. The workers saw off a limb from the tree.
   工人从树上锯下了一根大树枝。
5. She sat on a limb of the tree and looked down.
   她坐在一根大树枝上往下看。
6. The falling tree limb left a big indent on his car.
   掉下来的树枝在他的车上留下了一个大凹口。

常见句型

用作名词 (n.)

1. He was very tall with long limbs.
   他个儿很高,四肢很长。
2. She sat on a limb of the tree and looked down.
   她坐在一根大树枝上往下看。

经典引文

• He had an artificial limb, for he had lost a leg in the war.

  出自： C. Blackwood

• They climbed down from..the lorries and stretched their stiff limbs.

  出自： M. Scammell

常用短语

用作名词 (n.)

life and limb

生命危险one's survival from accident or injury

out on a limb

孤立无助alone without support

sound in wind and limb

体格强健physically fit

tear limb from limb

猛击(某人)attack sb very violently
tear sb limb from limb
We tear the enemies limb from limb.

我们猛击敌人。

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

• amputate a limb 截肢
• cut off the limb 砍掉树枝
• stretch limbs 伸展四肢

形容词+～

• fallen limb 落下的树枝
• artificial limb 假肢
• the lower limb 下肢
• weak limbs 软弱无力的四肢

介词+～

• tremble in every limb 四肢发抖
• on a limb 在树枝上
• out on a limb 处于孤立

词义辨析

branch，limb，bough，shoot

• 这些名词均含有“枝”之意。
• branch普通用词，泛指树木比bough小一些的大枝或小枝，也可用于引申意义。
• limb多指主枝或大枝。
• bough指主枝或粗大强壮的枝。
• shoot指植物或灌木刚长出的新枝、嫩枝或嫩芽。

词源解说

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的lim，意为肢。

近反义词

【近义词】

• branch 分部
• bough 大树枝
• appendage 附加物
• member 成员
• extremity 极端
• arm 臂
• shoot 发射
• part 部分
• wing 翅膀
• leg 腿
• offshoot 分枝
• scion 后裔
• descendant 后裔
• offspring 后代
• child 小孩
• imp 小恶魔
• scamp 无赖
• rascal 淘气鬼
• bad boy [法] 不良少年, 反叛...
• tree branch 树叉, 树枝