| 释义 |
bulgebulge1 /bʌldʒ/ noun [countable]   bulge1Origin: 1700-1800 bouge, bulge ‘bag, swelling, hump’ (13-19 centuries), from Old French bouge; ➔ BUDGET1 - At five months pregnant, the bulge was beginning to show.
- Her tailored suit fitted neatly, hiding the slight bulges of middle-age.
- The store detective had noticed an odd bulge under the suspect's clothes.
- As she left the dining-room her hand went to the bulge in her pocket.
- By adjusting the statistics, natural bulges are evened out, allowing for short-term shifts to be inferred more accurately.
- In most cases the bulge settles down, as long as you have sufficient horizontal rest and take good care of your back.
- The bulge in its midriff testified to that.
- The bulge, by contrast, contains little dust.
- The next thing was that he wanted her to hold the bulge.
- This continues until there is a well-developed inward bulge which goes about half-way across the interior.
- Weight remains a sensitive issue for Engler, who is constantly fighting a sometimes serious battle of the bulge.
something that sticks out► bulge something, especially a part of the body, that sticks out in a rounded shape: · Her tailored suit fitted neatly, hiding the slight bulges of middle-age.· At five months pregnant, the bulge was beginning to show. ► lump something, especially something small, that sticks up in a rounded shape from your skin or from a surface: · She saw a lump under the bedclothes.· He put the gun in his pocket, where it made a slight lump.· He had a lump on his forehead the size of a golf ball. ► bump something that sticks up in a rounded shape, especially from the surface of something: · The car rattled every time it went over a bump.· A small bump had started to develop over Irene's eye.· I nearly stumbled over a bump in the ground. ► bulging eye (=round and sticking far out)· His bulging eyes made him rather look like a frog. ► somebody's pockets are bulging (=they are very full)· Tony's pockets were bulging with loose change. ► the battle of the bulge- He was with Patton during the Battle of the Bulge.
- In 1944, the Battle of the Bulge was fought.
- The auditorium was bulging at the seams during the governor's talk.
- The island couldn't be bursting at the seams, surely?
1a curved mass on the surface of something, usually caused by something under or inside it:  The gun made a bulge under his jacket.2a sudden temporary increase in the amount or level of something: a bulge in the birthrate—bulgy adjective |