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- a belt or cord worn round the waist腰带; 腰绳。
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- a woman's elasticated corset extending from waist to thigh（自腰部至大腿的女用）松紧裤。
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- a thing that surrounds something like a belt or girdle围绕物：
a communications girdle around the world.
一个环绕世界的通讯系统。
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- Anatomy either of two sets of bones encircling the body, to which the limbs are attached【剖】肢带骨。见PECTORAL GIRDLE, PELVIC GIRDLE.
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- the part of a cut gem dividing the crown from the base and embraced by the setting（已雕琢宝石的）腰棱。
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- a ring round a tree made by removing bark（将树木环状剥皮后形成的）环状圈。
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- encircle (the body) with or as with a girdle or belt用腰带（或似腰带物）围绕（身体）：
the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist.
修士松开了绕在腰上的绳子。
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- surround; encircle包围; 围绕：
the chain of volcanoes which girdles the Pacific.
环太平洋的火山链。
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- cut through the bark all the way round (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it or to kill a branch to make the tree more fruitful将（树, 枝）环状剥皮（让其死去或让其他枝干多结果实）。
词源
Old English gyrdel, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gordel and German Gürtel, also to GIRD1 and GIRTH.