英语词汇“muscle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	muscle
释义	muscle I. muscle variant of mussel II. mus·cle \ˈməsəl\ noun (-s) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle French, from Latin musculus, from diminutive of mus mouse — more at mouse 1. a. : a tissue that functions to produce motion and is made up of variously modified elongated cells capable of contracting when stimulated — see cardiac muscle, smooth muscle, striated muscle b. : an organ that contracts to produce, enhance, or check a particular movement and is made up of usually striated muscle tissue enclosed in a perimysium and firmly attached at either end to a bone or other fixed point — see agonist, antagonist, synergist 2. a. : something that resembles or is likened to a muscle < electronic circuits … are the muscles which carry out its orders — Boeing Magazine > < the muscles of England … the factories — Richard Joseph > < limbered his mental and moral muscles — Janet Whitney > b. (1) : muscular strength : brawn < got the nerve for anything, only he hasn't got the muscle — Joseph Conrad > (2) : effective strength or authority : force, power < put military muscle into the mutual defense pact — New York Herald Tribune > < chosen less for polish and background, more for economic and executive muscle — Time > < a cup of … coffee that really has some muscle — R.M.Hodesh > c. : an essential item or service : necessity < economics that would cut out fat rather than muscle — D.W.Mitchell > 3. a. : muscular tissue b. : lean meat III. muscle verb (muscled ; muscled ; muscling \-s(ə)liŋ\ ; muscles) *transitive verb* 1. dialect : to move by muscular effort < needed men to muscle chairs and tables — Linnell Jones > 2. : to use strength or influence on : achieve by coercion : force, shove < was suddenly muscled aside as a swarm of his fellows rushed out — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin > < a plane muscles its way through the … sound barrier — Springfield (Massachusetts) Daily News > < dreamers were muscled out of patent rights — Scott Fitzgerald > 3. : to furnish with strength or muscle : reinforce, condition < even the years of ballet exercises … had not muscled them into hardness — Winifred Bambrick > < muscle up our diplomatic approach — Newsweek > < muscling their minds to strike — Rose Thurburn > *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to make one's way by brute strength < slowly muscled up the cliff > b. : to overcome opposition by force — usually used with in or into < muscled into the queue — Bruce Marshall > 2. : to force one's way in (as by trickery or intimidation) against hostility or opposition especially for fraudulent gain — usually used with in < some competing journalist would muscle in on my exclusive story — New York Times > < muscling in on his territory — Green Peyton > < would muscle in on the racket >
随便看	odd man wins odd mark oddment oddness odd or even odd permutation odd-pinnate odd-pinnately odds odds odds and ends odds bob odds bobs odds fish oddsmaker odds-on odds or evens odd trick -ode ode ode odea -odea odel odense

英语词典包含332784条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。