nose
noun/nəʊz/
/nəʊz/
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鼻;鼻子 - She had dark eyes and a long narrow nose.
她长着黑色的眼睛和细长的鼻子。 - He broke his nose in the fight.
他打架时打断了鼻梁。 - She wrinkled her nose in disgust.
她厌恶地皱起鼻子。 - He pressed his nose up against the window.
他把鼻子贴在窗户上。 - through your nose Try to breathe through your nose.
试着用鼻子呼吸。 - He blew his nose (= cleared it by blowing strongly into a handkerchief).
他擤了擤鼻子。 - a blocked/runny nose
堵塞的/流鼻涕的鼻子 - Stop picking your nose! (= removing dirt from it with your finger)
别抠鼻孔了! - He held his nose as he passed the stinking dustbins.
经过臭烘烘的垃圾箱时,他捏着鼻子。 - (figurative) He held his nose and voted for the bill anyway.
不管怎样,他捏着鼻子投票支持了这项法案。 - He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose (= the hard part near the top).
他把眼镜推到鼻梁上方。
Collocations Physical appearancePhysical appearancesee also Grecian nose, nasal, parson’s nose, Roman nose- A person may be described as having:
- (bright) blue/green/(dark/light) brown/hazel eyes
- deep-set/sunken/bulging/protruding eyes
- small/beady/sparkling/twinkling/(informal) shifty eyes
- piercing/penetrating/steely eyes
- bloodshot/watery/puffy eyes
- bushy/thick/dark/raised/arched eyebrows
- long/dark/thick/curly/false eyelashes/lashes
- a flat/bulbous/pointed/sharp/snub nose
- a straight/a hooked/a Roman/(formal) an aquiline nose
- full/thick/thin/pouty lips
- dry/chapped/cracked lips
- flushed/rosy/red/ruddy/pale cheeks
- soft/chubby/sunken cheeks
- white/perfect/crooked/protruding teeth
- a large/high/broad/wide/sloping forehead
- a strong/weak/pointed/double chin
- a long/full/bushy/wispy/goatee beard
- a long/thin/bushy/droopy/handlebar/pencil moustache
- pale/fair/olive/dark/tanned skin
- dry/oily/smooth/rough/leathery/wrinkled skin
- a dark/pale/light/sallow/ruddy/olive/swarthy/clear complexion
- deep/fine/little/facial wrinkles
- blonde/blond/fair/(light/dark) brown/(jet-)black/auburn/red/(British English) ginger/grey hair
- straight/curly/wavy/frizzy/spiky hair
- thick/thin/fine/bushy/thinning hair
- dyed/bleached/soft/silky/dry/greasy/shiny hair
- long/short/shoulder-length/cropped hair
- a bald/balding/shaved head
- a receding hairline
- a bald patch/spot
- a side/centre(British English) parting
- a long/short/thick/slender/(disapproving) scrawny neck
- broad/narrow/sloping/rounded/hunched shoulders
- a bare/broad/muscular/small/large chest
- a flat/swollen/bulging stomach
- a small/tiny/narrow/slim/slender/28-inch waist
- big/wide/narrow/slim hips
- a straight/bent/arched/broad/hairy back
- thin/slender/muscular arms
- big/large/small/manicured/calloused/gloved hands
- long/short/fat/slender/delicate/bony fingers
- long/muscular/hairy/shapely/(both informal, often disapproving) skinny/spindly legs
- muscular/chubby/(informal, disapproving) flabby thighs
- big/little/small/dainty/wide/narrow/bare feet
- a good/a slim/a slender/an hourglass figure
- be of slim/medium/average/large/athletic/stocky build
Homophones knows | noseknows nose/nəʊz//nəʊz/- knows verb (third person of know)
- Who knows what the future will bring?
谁知道将来会给我们带来什么呢?
- Who knows what the future will bring?
- nose noun
- Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth.
用鼻子吸气,用嘴呼气。
- Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth.
Extra ExamplesTopics Bodya1- Cats have very sensitive noses and rely heavily on scent markings.
猫的鼻子非常灵敏,十分依赖气味标记。 - Charlie pressed his nose against the window.
查利把鼻子贴在窗玻璃上。 - He stuck his bulbous red nose back into his pint of beer.
他又把红红的蒜头鼻浸到了啤酒里。 - He tapped his nose in a knowing gesture.
他轻轻地敲着鼻梁,一副了然于心的样子。 - His nose wrinkled with distaste.
他嫌恶地皱起鼻子。 - I had to wear a black moustache and false nose for the role.
为扮演这个角色,我必须戴黑色的小胡子和一个假鼻子。 - She dressed up as a clown with a white face and red nose.
她打扮成小丑, 雪白的脸,红红的鼻子。 - She walked with her shoulders back and her nose pointing skyward.
她抬头挺胸,鼻孔朝天地走 。 - She was weeping loudly and her nose was running.
她大声哭着,鼻涕也流了下来。 - She wrinkled her nose as if she had just smelled a bad smell.
她皱着鼻子,好像刚闻到臭味。 - The boy sat there with his finger up his nose.
男孩坐在那儿,一根指头放在鼻子上。 - The dog pushed its wet nose into my palm.
小狗用它湿湿的鼻头蹭我的手心。 - The sharp nose and thin lips gave his face a very harsh look.
他的尖鼻子和薄嘴唇使他的模样看起来很严厉。 - a child with a runny nose
流着鼻涕的孩子
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- bulbous
- huge
- …
- breathe through
- blow
- wipe
- …
- wrinkle
- twitch
- run
- …
- job
- ring
- bleed
- …
- through the nose
- up your nose
- the bridge of the nose
- with your nose in the air
- look down your nose at somebody
- …
- She had dark eyes and a long narrow nose.
- -nosed(in adjectives) having the type of nose mentioned
有…鼻子的 - red-nosed
红鼻子的 - large-nosed
大鼻子的
More Like This Compound adjectives for physical characteristicsCompound adjectives for physical characteristics- -beaked
- -bellied
- -billed
- -blooded
- -bodied
- -cheeked
- -chested
- -eared
- -eyed
- -faced
- -fingered
- -footed
- -haired
- -handed
- -headed
- -hearted
- -hipped
- -lidded
- -limbed
- -mouthed
- -necked
- -nosed
- -skinned
- -tailed
- -throated
- -toothed
- red-nosed
- [countable] the front part of a plane, spacecraft, etc.
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(飞机、太空船等的)头部,头锥;机头 - Heat detectors are fitted in the nose of the missile.
热探测器安装在导弹的前端。
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by airb1- He pushed the nose down for the final approach.
他压低机头,准备着陆。 - The plane's nose dipped as it started descending towards the runway.
飞机机头降低,开始向跑道降落。
- Heat detectors are fitted in the nose of the missile.
- [singular] a nose for something a special ability for finding or recognizing something
synonym instinct发现(或辨别)事物的能力;嗅觉 - As a journalist, she has always had a nose for a good story.
作为一名记者,她总是能够捕捉到好新闻。
- As a journalist, she has always had a nose for a good story.
- [singular] a sense of smell
嗅觉 - a dog with a good nose
嗅觉灵敏的狗 - (figurative) Good noses can always smell a fight brewing.
灵敏的鼻子总能嗅到一场战斗正在酝酿之中。
- a dog with a good nose
- [singular] a smell that is characteristic of a particular wine
(酒的)香气 - This Cote de Beaune has a good nose, with apricot and raisin aromas.
这款 Cote de Beaune 酒的香气很好,带有杏子和葡萄干的香气。
- This Cote de Beaune has a good nose, with apricot and raisin aromas.
Word OriginOld English nosu, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch neus, and more remotely to German Nase, Latin nasus, and Sanskrit nāsā.
Idioms
by a nose
- (informal) (of a victory or defeat) by only a small amount (used mostly when talking about horse racing)
烦扰 - He lost his first race by a nose but won the next three.
他以微弱优势输掉了第一场比赛,但赢得了接下来的三场比赛。 - Glen's Diamond was declared the winner by a nose from the 11–4 favourite.
格伦戴蒙德 (Glen's Diamond) 以微弱优势从 11-4 的热门球队中获胜。
- He lost his first race by a nose but won the next three.
cut off your nose to spite your face
- (informal) to do something when you are angry that is meant to harm somebody else but that also harms you
(恼怒之下)伤人害己,损人不利己
follow your nose
- to be guided by your sense of smell
凭嗅觉指引 - to go straight forward
一直向前走 - The garage is a mile ahead up the hill—just follow your nose.
汽车修理站在前面一英里处的山坡上,一直往前走就可以到。
- The garage is a mile ahead up the hill—just follow your nose.
- to act according to what seems right or reasonable, rather than following any particular rules
凭感觉行事;凭直觉办事
get/have your nose/snout in the trough
- (British English, informal, disapproving) if you say that people have their noses in the trough, you mean that they are trying to get a lot of money for themselves
掉进钱眼里;一心发大财
get up somebody’s nose
- (British English, informal) to annoy somebody
激怒,招惹(某人)
give somebody a bloody nose
- to defeat somebody
战胜 - We have to give him a bloody nose in the election.
我们必须在选举中战胜他。 - Voters gave the government a bloody nose in the local elections.
选民在地方选举中对政府表现出了极大的不满。
- We have to give him a bloody nose in the election.
have your head/nose in a book
- to be reading
埋头读书 - She always has her nose in a book.
她总是在埋头读书。
- She always has her nose in a book.
have your nose in something
- (informal) to be reading something and giving it all your attention
专心致志地阅读 - Peter always has his nose in a book.
彼得总是埋头读书。
- Peter always has his nose in a book.
have a nose round
- (British English, informal) to look around a place; to look for something in a place
环视(某地);在(某地)寻找 - I’ll have a nose round and see what I can find.
我会仔细观察,看看能找到什么。
- I’ll have a nose round and see what I can find.
it’s no skin off my, your, his, etc. nose
- (informal) used to say that somebody is not upset or annoyed about something because it does not affect them in a bad way
(指某人没有受到不良影响)这不关某人的事,这跟某人没关系
keep your nose clean
- (informal) to avoid doing anything wrong or illegal
循规蹈矩;不做违法的事 - Since leaving prison, he's managed to keep his nose clean.
自从出狱以来,他已做到规规矩矩。
- Since leaving prison, he's managed to keep his nose clean.
keep your nose out of something
- to not become involved in things that should not really involve you
不插手,不介入(他人的事)
keep your nose to the grindstone
- (informal) to work hard for a long period of time without stopping
连续辛勤地工作
lead somebody by the nose
- (informal) to make somebody do everything you want; to control somebody completely
牵着某人的鼻子走;完全操纵(或控制)某人
look down your nose at somebody/something
- (informal, especially British English) to behave in a way that suggests that you think that you are better than somebody or that something is not good enough for you
对…不屑一顾;蔑视 - People who live in that area tend to look down their noses at their poorer neighbours.
住在那个地区的人往往瞧不起比他们穷的邻居。 - They tend to look down their noses at people who drive small cars.
他们往往看不起开小型汽车的人。
- People who live in that area tend to look down their noses at their poorer neighbours.
nose to tail
- (British English) if cars, etc. are nose to tail, they are moving slowly in a long line with little space between them
(汽车等)首尾相连(缓缓行进) - The traffic was nose to tail for miles.
车辆头尾相连,绵延数英里。
- The traffic was nose to tail for miles.
on the nose
- (informal, especially North American English) exactly
准确地;恰好地 - The budget should hit the $136 billion target on the nose.
预算应该正好达到 1 360 亿美元的目标。
- The budget should hit the $136 billion target on the nose.
pay through the nose (for something)
- (informal) to pay too much money for something
(为…)付过高的价
(as) plain as a pikestaff | (as) plain as day | (as) plain as the nose on your face
- very obvious
一清二楚;一目了然;显而易见
poke/stick your nose into something
- (informal) to try to become involved in something that should not involve you
多管闲事;插手(他人的事) - He’s always poking his nose into other people’s business.
事情进展不顺利。
- He’s always poking his nose into other people’s business.
powder your nose
- (old-fashioned) a polite way to say that somebody goes to the toilet
礼貌地表示有人去厕所了 - I'm just going to powder my nose.
我想去补补妆。
- I'm just going to powder my nose.
put somebody’s nose out of joint
- (informal) to upset or annoy somebody, especially by not giving them enough attention
(冷落)使难堪;惹恼
rub somebody’s nose in it
- (informal) to keep reminding somebody in an unkind way of their past mistakes
揭疮疤;不断恶意提起某人以往的过失
thumb your nose at somebody/something
- (informal) to make a rude sign with your thumb on your nose; to show that you have no respect for somebody/something
嗤之以鼻;蔑视 - The company just thumbs its nose at the legislation on pollution.
这家公司完全不把污染立法放在眼里。 - They thumb their noses at all of our traditions.
他们对我们所有的传统都嗤之以鼻。
- The company just thumbs its nose at the legislation on pollution.
turn your nose up at something
- (informal) to refuse something, especially because you do not think that it is good enough for you
拒绝;看不上;看不起 - The children turn up their noses at almost everything I cook.
孩子们几乎瞧不上我烹制的任何东西。
- The children turn up their noses at almost everything I cook.
under somebody’s nose (informal)
- if something is under somebody’s nose, it is very close to them but they cannot see it
就在某人面前(却看不见) - I searched everywhere for the letter and it was under my nose all the time!
我到处找这封信,可它一直就在我面前。
- I searched everywhere for the letter and it was under my nose all the time!
- if something happens under somebody’s nose, they do not notice it even though it is not being done secretly
当着某人的面,就在某人眼皮底下(却没有被察觉) - The police didn't know the drugs ring was operating right under their noses.
警方不知道贩毒集团就在他们的眼皮底下运作。
- The police didn't know the drugs ring was operating right under their noses.
with your nose in the air
- (informal) in a way that is not friendly and suggests that you think that you are better than other people
傲慢;看不起人;鼻孔朝天,自高自大 - She walked in with her nose in the air, ignoring everyone.
她傲慢地走进来,谁也不理。
- She walked in with her nose in the air, ignoring everyone.