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词汇 flesh
释义 flesh
noun
uk /fleʃ/ us /fleʃ/
C2[ U ]
the soft part of the body of a person or animal that is between the skin and the bones, or the soft inside part of a fruit or vegetable: (人或动物的)肉;果肉;蔬菜的可食部分
The thorn went deep into the flesh of my hand.刺深深扎进了我的手。
Vegetarians don't eat animal flesh (= meat).素食者不吃肉。
The flesh of the fruit is white.这种水果的果肉是白色的。
 the flesh[ S ]literary
the physical body and not the mind or the soul: 肉体
pleasures of the fleshThis left him plenty of time to indulge in the pleasures of the flesh (= physical pleasures, such as sex or eating).这使他有了充足的时间沉溺于肉体的欢愉中。
See also
fleshpotnounUK, humorous or USliterary
Soft tissue, such as flesh, allows X-rays through.X光能穿透肌肉等软组织。
He had undone the buttons of his shirt, exposing an unsightly expanse of white flesh.他解开衬衫纽扣,露出一片白花花的肉,很不雅观。
The bullet had only caused a flesh wound.
The maggot had burrowed into the flesh of the apple.
There was a terrible smell of putrefying flesh.
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Fruits & seeds & their parts
The body

Idioms


be (only) flesh and blood
someone's (own) flesh and blood
in the flesh
make your flesh crawl/creep
put flesh on (the bones of) something

flesh | American Dictionary


flesh
noun[ U ]
us/fleʃ/
the soft part of the body of a person or animal covering the bones and organs:
The roast duck has robust flavor and tender flesh.
The flesh of a fruit or vegetable is the soft, inner part:
Peel the tomatoes and use only the flesh.

Idiom


in the flesh

Examples of flesh


flesh
The real meaning becomes clearer in the first edition's 'closed up the flesh in stead thereof'.
Experiments were monitored every 2-7 d when fruits were palatable to elephants and every 2-4 wk when the flesh had rotted.
Medieval authorities insisted that martyrs were impassible because their flesh was materially and supernaturally different from normal human flesh.
Triumph over the desires of the flesh was one of the chief guarantees of sanctity, especially in the case of women.
The persistence of larvae in putrefying flesh is also determined by the environment: high humidity and low temperatures favour survival.
The international spirit was clearly willing, but somehow the local flesh proved to be a little weak.
The second import from the psycholinguistic domain seems somewhat more likely to bear fruit, if it can be fleshed out.
The voices of all give new life to the dead flesh.
However, the laws, once adopted, are complemented by more specific governmental decrees, which flesh out the details of realization.
Large groups, perhaps corporate parties, find appropriate places for pressing flesh, or whatever it is that they do.
The attribute's instancing, in turn, would explain the clump's character as human flesh.
So did her fair cheeks stream with grief for the husband who was sitting beside her in the flesh.
Their devotion to the mortification of the flesh was also underscored by their weakly bodily constitution, hence the topos of the sick scientist.
When a musky rat-kangaroo handled a fruit it left characteristic chew marks in the skin, flesh or seed.
Because the ideal moral character is a construct of reason, it is by definition unattainable by flesh-and-blood characters, who might uncharacteristically slip on occasion.
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Collocations withflesh


flesh

These are words often used in combination with flesh.

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burning flesh
The stench of burningflesh was nauseating.
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human flesh
The attribute's instancing, in turn, would explain the clump's character as humanflesh.
living flesh
In all cases, these animals transform the flesh of other dead animals into their own livingflesh.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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