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词汇 jaw
释义 jaw
noun
uk /dʒɔː/ us /dʒɑː/

jawnoun (BODY PART)


B2[ C ]
the lower part of your face that moves when you open your mouth: 下颌,下巴
a broken jaw骨折的下颌
punch inUSHe gave me a punch in the jaw.
punch onUKHe gave me a punch on the jaw.
He has a strong/square jaw.他长着结实的/方下巴。
 
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[ C ]
either of the two bones in your mouth that hold your teeth: 颌;颚
upper/lower jaw上/下颚
 jaws[ plural ]
the mouth of a person or animal, especially a large and frightening animal: (尤指大型凶猛动物的)口部,嘴
The lion opened its jaws and roared.狮子张开大嘴咆哮起来。
something that opens and closes like the upper and lower parts of a mouth: 钳夹部分;钳口
His foot was caught in the jaws of the trap.他的脚被夹在捕兽夹的钳口里。
"I'm never going back to him, " she said, setting her jaw firmly.“我永远都不会回到他身边,”她咬紧牙关说。
I could tell from the set of his jaw that he was angry.看他绷得紧紧的下巴,我便知道他在生气。
He socked the policeman on the jaw.
She punched him square on the jaw.她一拳不偏不倚正中他的下颌。
He jutted his jaw out defiantly.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The head & face
-cheeked
-chinned
baby face
baby-faced
brow
bull neck
cheek
double chin
forehead
masseter
masseteric
mastoid
maxilla
maxillary
T-zone
temporal
visage
wattle
weak-chinned
zygoma

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Bone structures

jawnoun (DANGER)


 jaws[ plural ]
something dangerous: 险境
jaws of deathThe rescuers snatched the children from the jaws of death.救援人员将孩子们从死亡的险境中救了出来。
For these men, it was a journey into the jaws of hell.
She had no idea whether she would be tossed into the jaws of the criminal justice system.
She tried to rescue him from the jaws of despair.
It's the story of a young girl snatched from the jaws of evil by a handsome hero.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dangers and threats
balefully
baneful
banefully
black spot
hang
hang over something
hazard
hazardous
hazardously
non-lethal
on/under pain of deathidiom
or elseidiom
parlous
parlously
someone's bark is worse than his/her biteidiom
threateningly
tombstoning
treacherously
triple threat
ultra-hazardous

jawnoun (TALK)


[ S ]informal
a talk: 闲谈
I met Jane and we had a good jaw over lunch.我遇到了简,并且在吃午饭时两个人好好聊了一番。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Informal talking & conversation
a problem shared is a problem halvedidiom
bantering
banteringly
bants
bloviate
bull session
buzz
catch
chew the fatidiom
conversation
conversational
gambit
palaver
pass
patter
persiflage
put the world to rightsidiom
speech
take/lead someone on/to one sideidiom
tête-à-tête

Idioms


someone's jaw drops (open)
someone's jaw hits the ground
jaw
verb[ I ]
 informaluk /dʒɔː/ us /dʒɑː/
to talk for a long time: 喋喋不休,唠唠叨叨
jaw away toHe was jawing away to his girlfriend for hours on the phone.他和女朋友煲了几个小时的电话粥。
Synonyms
natterUKinformal
yackinformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Informal talking & conversation
a problem shared is a problem halvedidiom
bantering
banteringly
bants
bloviate
bull session
buzz
catch
chew the fatidiom
conversation
conversational
gambit
palaver
pass
patter
persiflage
put the world to rightsidiom
speech
take/lead someone on/to one sideidiom
tête-à-tête

jaw | American Dictionary


jaw
noun[ C ]
us/dʒɔ/
either of the two bony parts bordering the mouth that hold your teeth in place:
the upper/lower jaw

Idiom


someone’s jaw drops

Examples of jaw


jaw
A suitable mechanism with gear trains has been designed for performing the jaw of shoulder and the roll of wrist.
Unlike in mastodonsaurids, there are no ridges for attachment of jaw musculature.
The acoustic waveform that reaches the ears is structured by the activity of several anatomical structures, including the lips, tongue, jaw, and larynx.
The characteristics were : hair, facial hair, larynx, voice, figure, height, skin, hands/feet, muscularity, chin, nose, jaw, speech, and gestures/movement.
These skills are then transferred to the control of artificial devices of different type, starting from a simple jaw gripper to multi-fingered hands.
A part and two sets of jaws were machined from aluminum stock.
Furthermore, machined jaws may not precisely comply with the specified maximal contact geometry.
These elements are homologous to the bones and cartilage of the primary jaw joint in non-mammalian jawed vertebrates.
This captures the muscle movements while clenching/tightening of jaws.
All patients studied had a normal baseline serum creatinine; 12.2% experienced increased serum creatinine levels, 3 patients (5%) suffered osteonecrosis of the jaw.
The baleen was cut from the upper jaw, the plates separated, dried, and stowed.
Oral modification occurs continuously in speech and song by movement of the lips, jaw, tongue and velum to produce open, fricative and stopped sounds.
The cross-sectional area of the tube is determined by the placement of the lips, jaw, tongue and velum.
The jaw was retracted and the skin of the upper palate was cut at the midline.
Most of the additional teeth observed in this study occurred in the upper jaw (43 of 52 individuals).
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Collocations withjaw


jaw

These are words often used in combination with jaw.

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bottom jaw
Cattle have thirty-two teeth, including six incisors or biting teeth and two canines in the front on the bottom jaw.
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Wikipedia

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broken jaw
How would payment for, say, a broken nose or a brokenjaw be calculated?
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jaw bone
Over time, the jawbone would begin to abscess.
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Wikipedia

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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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