beat one's breast
捶胸顿足,拍胸脯,拍胸脯说,拍胸口
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- : Anatomy, Zoology. the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- : Zoology. the corresponding part in quadrupeds.
- : either of the pair of mammae occurring on the chest in humans and having a discrete areola around the nipple, especially the mammae of the female after puberty, which are enlarged and softened by hormonally influenced mammary-gland development and fat deposition and which secrete milk after the birth of a child: the breasts of males normally remain rudimentary.
- : the part of a garment that covers the chest.
- : the bosom conceived of as the center of emotion: What anger lay in his breast when he made that speech?
- : a projection from a wall, as part of a chimney.
- : any surface or part resembling or likened to the human breast.
- : Mining. the face or heading at which the work is going on.
- : Metallurgy. the front of an open-hearth furnace.the clay surrounding the taphole of a cupola.
- : Nautical. breast line. a rounded bow.
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- : to meet or oppose boldly; confront: As a controversial public figure he has breasted much hostile criticism.
- : to contend with or advance against: The ship breasted the turbulent seas.
- : to climb or climb over.
- : to overcome, succeed against.
- : to come alongside or abreast of.
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- : breast in, Nautical. to bind securely under a projection, as the flare of a bow.
- : breast off, Nautical. to thrust sideways from a wharf.to keep away from a wharf by means of timbers.
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Things most meat eaters like to ignore for the ease and inoffensiveness of picking up a pound of plastic-wrapped chicken breasts on the way home from work.
I soon met more than a dozen women who said that male mechanics would grope them, leer at their breasts and make sexual comments or physical insinuations about sex.
Three more women have died from a cancer associated with certain kinds of breast implants—all within a six-month period starting just weeks before those implants were recalled.
The team got similar results with several different Brd4 inhibitors and in mice with breast, colon or lung tumors.
Men with this condition can opt for breast reduction surgery or wear a compression vest.
He tore a piece of meat off the breast and stroked her coat while she ate.
My girlfriend, Barbara, came to visit me and exposed her breast through the window.
Hooters is cleverly asking me to “Give a Hoot” about breast cancer.
It also sells a number of products that contain chemicals that have been linked to breast cancer.
Sure, Hooters may have a vested financial interests in breasts—or rather, a very specific type of breast.
"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.
It is something which takes side in the child's breast with the reasonable governor and the laws which he or she administers.
Alessandro walked at the horses' heads, his face sunk on his breast, his eyes fixed on the ground.
We laid him down gently, folded his arms on his breast, and for a moment held our peace in tribute to his passing.
The governor placed a dagger to his breast in order to get him to tell what he knew of his wife.