chest

英 [t?est] 美[t??st]

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復(fù)數(shù):?chests;

chest 胸腔，大箱子

來自拉丁詞cista, 箱子，詞源同cistern.

chest: chest: [OE] Chest comes ultimately from Greek kístē ‘box, basket’. In Latin this became cista (source of English cistern [13]). In prehistoric times the word was borrowed into Germanic as *kistā, which was the source of Old English cest. This still meant ‘box’, a sense which continued in isolation until the 16th century, when it was first applied to the ‘thorax’ – the basis of the metaphor presumably being that the ribs enclose the heart and lungs like a box. It has since replaced breast as the main term for the concept.
=> cistern
chest (n.): Old English cest "box, coffer, casket," from Proto-Germanic *kista (cognates: Old Norse and Old High German kista, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, German kiste, Dutch kist), an early borrowing from Latin cista "chest, box," from Greek kiste "a box, basket," from PIE *kista "woven container." Meaning extended to "thorax" 1520s, replacing breast (n.), on the metaphor of the ribs as a box for the organs. Chest of drawers is from 1590s.

3. After more misses, they finally put two arrows into the lion's chest.: 又射偏了幾次之后,他們終于把兩支箭射入了獅子的胸膛.

4. Never keep on exercising if you have even the slightest chest pain.: 即使你只感到很輕微的胸部疼痛，也不要繼續(xù)鍛煉。

5. He started flailing around and hitting Vincent in the chest.: 他的手臂開始胡亂揮舞起來，打在了文森特胸口上。