- the protruding part of the face below the mouth, formed by the apex of the lower jaw颏, 下巴。
with obj.
1
- informal hit or punch on the chin〈非正式〉击打下巴; 拳击下巴。
2
- draw one's body up so as to bring one's chin level with or above (a horizontal bar) with one's feet off the ground, as an exercise引体向上。
短语
keep one's chin up
- informal remain cheerful in difficult circumstances〈非正式〉不气馁, 不灰心：
keep your chin up, we're not lost yet.
别灰心, 我们还没输呢。
take it on the chin
- endure or accept misfortune courageously or stoically勇敢忍受不幸; 坦然接受灾祸。
派生词
chinned
adjective方下巴的。
词源
Old English cin, cinn, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin gena 'cheek' and Greek genus 'jaw'.