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underbelly

/uhn-der-bel-ee/US // ˈʌn dərˌbɛl i //UK // (ˈʌndəˌbɛlɪ) //

小腹,腹地,小腹下,小腹处

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural un·der·bel·lies.

    • : the lower abdomen; posterior ventral area, as of an animal's body.
    • : the lower surface of an object; underside: the underbelly of an airplane.
    • : a vulnerable area; weak point: an attack on the soft underbelly of Europe.
    • : a dark, seamy, often hidden area or side: a police officer continually exposed to the underbelly of society.

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Examples

  • The last four years have shown the dark underbelly of an America that has always existed.

  • The golden underbelly of a bridge near the Smithsonian Metro station has the unbridled, reaching shine of a sunrise.

  • Diggins immediately rolled over, offering Ford her underbelly.

  • This year, with slightly more worldliness and way fewer drinks consumed, I could see the emotionally fraught underbelly.

  • She shook me and we both saw its silver underbelly pass by the window of my fifth-floor walk-up in Greenwich Village.

  • In fact this is a fairly new subculture, albeit one with a dark underbelly of wax-smoking.

  • The press was at the height of its power when the Monica story began and Drudge was its underbelly.

  • But there is an ugly underbelly to this otherwise charming story and it is not exactly a new wrinkle either.

  • The scout ship responded like a nervous horse and fluttered away as the rocket burned and arced beneath the underbelly.

  • Repeatedly the two boys dived to jab and slash at the shark's soft underbelly.

  • Goode was peering at the ivory inlay on the underbelly of the stock.