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navel

/ney-vuhl/US // ˈneɪ vəl //UK // (ˈneɪvəl) //

脐带,肚脐,肚脐眼,脐部

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : umbilicus.
    • : the central point or middle of any thing or place.
    • : Heraldry. nombril.

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Examples

  • Steinberg, though, will miss everything about this week, from the networking to the navel gazing.

  • “Me neither,” Lohse says, gazing pityingly at his own navel.

  • Genuinely funny and intelligent and navel-gazing and strange, these parts might eventually add up to something truly big.

  • The singer Tom Jones growled hits like “Delilah” with shirts sweatily slashed to the navel.

  • The foam, designed to be injected into the navel, is composed of two liquid precursors.

  • But it's also kind of fun to make fun of the navel-gazing-ness of some of it.

  • Like Çupay, he dwelt in the subterranean regions, and his palace was named Tlalxicco, the navel of the earth.

  • Suddenly a lotus sprung from his navel, and grew till it reached the surface of the flood.

  • Then again, in the human body the central point is naturally the navel.

  • The plump-looking navel-wort, possibly introduced by him, may be seen peeping from crevices in the walls.

  • Who has not enjoyed a juicy navel orange, while wondering at its peculiar shape and lack of troublesome seeds?