1A woman's chest or breasts.

她那丰满的胸部。

这条连衣裙很好地勾勒出了胸部曲线。

1. 1.1 A part of a dress covering the chest.
   （女装的）胸襟
   she had plucked the brooch from her bosom

   Example sentencesExamples

   • The final touch to Laura's ensemble is two handkerchief-wrapped powder puffs stuffed in the bosom of her dress to improve her bust line.
   • It beats name tags hands down and ends all that nonsense of staring at each other's lapels or bosoms.
   • Her blouse is buttoned inappropriately low at the bosom.
   • In the gloaming I watch the audience scramble in, middle-aged women with puffy legs wearing tiny dresses, and see-through black silk shirts over cretonne bosoms propped up on bony rolling lacy corsets.
   • Subleyras's portrait of Tibaldi made in 1739 showed his wife gorgeously dressed, with a large flower at her bosom and one of her tiny pictures in her hand.
   • Aislinn started, the locket falling from her hand and resting on the navy cotton bosom of her dress as she whirled toward the sound.
   • Both my grandmothers wore shapeless, listless, grandmotherly dresses with baggy bosoms and they donned sturdy black oxford-type shoes.
   • With a playful interest, Sibyl remembered what Bridget had done, and following her example, lowered her chest and slipped a hand beneath her bosom to raise it.
   • At this time everything that is ordinarily done on the bosom should be done on the back.
   • Jasmine wore an off white sleeveless shirt with brown designs across the bosom.
2. 1.2literary The space between a person's clothing and their chest used for carrying things.
   胸前，怀
   he carried a letter in his bosom

   他怀里揣着一封信。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Genteel ladies wore little cameos of him in their bosoms; some Filipinos reportedly believed that he communicated directly with God.
   • I smiled and explained what Teddy was doing nestled in my bosom.
   • South Africa, if they get over the scars of the recent past and the anguish they seem to carry in their bosom, can be that team.
   • Beatrice observed this remarkable phenomenon and crossed herself, sadly, but without surprise; nor did she therefore hesitate to arrange the fatal flower in her bosom.
   • If you plant that money in your bosom or plant it in a lockbox, it will not grow.
   • The banished nurse sat with her tiny bee-friend nestled in her bosom.
   • As he moved the dead man's arm, the Elven Captain noticed a small bundle in his bosom.
   • He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom.
   • And so, I smuggled them in by putting them in my uniform, in my bosom, so the Bowls brandy or whatever that bottle was that's round at the bottom and skinny at the top.
3. 1.3literary A person's loving care and protection.
   〈诗/文〉温暖的关怀和保护
   Bruno went home each night to the bosom of his family

   布鲁诺每晚都回到家庭温暖的怀抱中。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Also returning to the bosom of his family was Tod, who devoted eight years of his career to Dunfermline.
   • We celebrate with her when she is returned to the bosom of her family and her town folks, and when, one day, she climbs the steps of the U.S. Capitol to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
   • I returned to the bosom of my loving, supportive family and proceeded to get myself a job.
   • The book was taken to the bosom of America, was a No. 1 best-seller last year and is still on the best-selling lists in hardcover and paperback.
   • Set in New York's Dominican community, the novel begins with Iliana, youngest daughter of her family (14 of them at last count) returning to the bosom of her strict parents.
   • It seems incongruous that one so young, so fit and so honourable should be taken from the bosom of his family so suddenly, but then, all things in this life are flawed.
   • In the story, the central character, Nazar Chagataev, sets out from Moscow to rescue the starving nomadic nation of his own birthplace and bring it safe back to the bosom of the Party.
   • Eventually I made it back to the bosom of my extended family, and related my story, expecting uproarious laughter.
   • How did the faces of those women look like as they clasped their children to their bosoms as the heat and the smoke slowly ate through their skins and their young died in their arms screaming till they were silenced?
   • The cathartic experience of venting the spleen at a match can return the supporter to the bosom of the family a calmer individual.
   • Still, in Our Town and several others, he created archetypally American works, which the Germans, reciprocating, clutched to their bosoms.
   • I know Rowling has a ton of background in this sort of arcana, but I'm still rather skeptical that she's really making an appeal for the return of England to the bosom of Holy Church.
   • If people knew what Bob was up to, mothers would clutch their babes to their bosoms when they see him pass by, and men would make public speculations about Bob's lineage, and offer him directions to subterranean hot spots.
   • It's true that over the past two years people such as David and Victoria Beckham, Robbie Williams, model Jodie Kidd, dance duo Basement Jaxx and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver have all taken Pringle to their bosoms.
   • Apart from white knuckles and a total inability to speak whilst we were shooting some impressive-looking rapids in a small aluminium boat, we had no doubts at any time that we would return safely to the bosom of our families.
   • He figures that he's best playing the role of upset brother, so he'll be taken to the bosom of sympathetic sisters.
   • In reality, there were ‘hidden variables’, which would restore the quantum flux to the bosom of classical physics.
   • It was great, therefore, to see him welcomed in to the bosom of the community like a local hero.
   • All this flies in the face of many right wingers who like to claim that nursery education is positively harmful to children, who should be left to be brought up in the bosom of the home.
   • I foresee bishops seeking out token victims, clutching them to their all-too-ample bosoms, then sending them on tour round the diocese to ‘update’ the flock.

   Synonyms

   protection, heart, core, midst, centre, circle, shelter, safety, refuge
4. 1.4 Used to refer to the chest as the seat of emotions.
   胸怀，内心
   quivering dread was settling in her bosom

   她心存恐惧与不安。

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   • What joy rises in my bosom as I imagine gazing on that wondrous sight!
   • His late companion's chance persistency made him feel that he could not keep his crime concealed in his bosom.
   • Alban turned to face the taunting eyes of the old governess feeling both rage and shame rise in his bosom.
   • Think of it, there are a hundred and forty-seven great works reposing in the bosoms of a hundred and forty-seven great men, and the tragic thing is that not one of those hundred and forty-seven great works will ever be written.
   • Ragnhildr listened intently, because something deep in her bosom told her Adeline was a liar.
   • Annabelle, suspicion which was aroused quick in her bosom, had no idea of the meetings that occurred between her brother and her lady's maid.
   • With national dignity surging in his bosom, Wu flatly turned down the humiliating demand put forward by Montigny.
   • He boasted to me, with a low chuckling laugh, that most men, in respect to himself, wore windows in their bosoms, and was wont to follow up such assertions by direct and very startling proofs of his intimate knowledge of my own.
   • You've been seeing these figures for awhile now but you have GOT to see them in graphic form to see why this rarest of sentiments, hope, has take root in my bosom.
   • The little voice inside my head that so often warned of impending danger now screamed at me to go upstairs, but the curiosity in my bosom burned so much hotter than the voice was loud.
   • The reason for this is that I contain the universe in my bosom.
   • Writers recognise, of course, that this happy state of affairs cannot come about overnight; but in the early days, when hope is intense in their bosoms, they can see no reason why it should not be achieved by 4 p.m. next Thursday.
   • The people of the village touched their hearts with both hands as the first families clasped the petals to their bosoms, feeling the pain of losing paradise, the helplessness with which they clung to their gifts.
   • You cannot just keep it all locked in your bosom and then say, ‘I received this nasty little letter, but it did not affect me’.

   Synonyms

   heart, breast, soul, being, inner being, core, spirit

   seat of one's emotions, seat of one's affections

attributive (of a friend) very close or intimate.

这两个女孩变成了知心朋友。