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brawn

/brawn/US // brɔn //UK // (brɔːn) //

膂力

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : strong, well-developed muscles.
    • : muscular strength.
    • : Chiefly British. a boar's or swine's flesh, especially when boiled and pickled.headcheese.

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Examples

  • Although getting windows unstuck may require skill and brawn, you should be able to fix those screens with less effort.

  • As governor of California, Schwarzenegger himself demonstrated the limits of American brawn.

  • Both films prized independence at their moral centers, and made brawn a virtue.

  • Founded in 1888 in Pittsburgh, Alcoa has long been a symbol of American industrial brawn.

  • This is the place where automakers show off brawn, power, and sex appeal.

  • He was built more like a bullock than a man, huge in bone and brawn, high in colour, and with a hand like a baby for size.

  • You are the brawn and the backbone of our free white Anglo-Saxon democracy, the flower of the world's peoples.

  • Boris went on cutting brawn upon a wooden platter with a swift and careful hand.

  • We used steam instead of the brawn of stalwart pioneers and Indians to propel the boat.

  • A pair of cold capons, a mortress of brawn, or what you will, with a flask or two of the right Gascony.