单词 | cheek |
释义 | cheek (tʃiːk ) Word forms: cheeks 1. countable noun B1 Your cheeks are the sides of your face below your eyes. Tears were running down her cheeks. She kissed him lightly on both cheeks. -cheeked combining form ...rosy-cheeked children. 2. singular noun You say that someone has a cheek when you are annoyed or shocked at something unreasonable that they have done. [informal] I'm amazed they had the cheek to ask in the first place. I still think it's a bit of a cheek sending a voucher rather than a refund. The cheek of it, lying to me like that! Synonyms: impudence, face [informal], front, nerve [informal] 3. turn the other cheek phrase If you turn the other cheek when someone harms or insults you, you do not harm or insult them in return. 4. cheek by jowl phrase If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other. She and her family have to live cheek by jowl with these people. [+ with] Vocabulary Builder FACE hair eye ear nose jaw forehead cheek mouth chin Idioms: turn the other cheek to decide not to take any action against someone who harms or insults you It's better to learn how to avoid a situation where you have either to defend yourself or turn the other cheek. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers cheek by jowl very close together After about seven years, all this living cheek by jowl began to irritate people. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers tongue in cheek used to describe a remark or a piece of writing that is meant to be funny and ironic, and is not meant to be taken seriously I think people are taking all this more seriously than we intended. It was supposed to be tongue in cheek. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: chubby cheeks I had huge, chubby cheeks and a double chin. The Sun (2012) With his chubby cheeks and angelic features, he looks like any other adolescent boy. The Sun (2012) A complete stranger is applying blusher to my daughter's chubby cheeks. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Both were hailed for their curves and held up as proof that the fashion industry wasn't all about stick-thin waifs with hollow cheeks. The Sun Yet still it was hard to tear your eyes away from his boyish body and hollow cheeks. Times, Sunday Times But if it has helped to make hollow cheeks and concave thighs uncool, that's a very big thing to be thankful for. Times, Sunday Times He wore a white sash over an ultramarine costume, had large wild eyes and hollow cheeks under a turban topped with a spray of feathers, bulging thighs, immaculate tights. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There were terrible scratch marks down his left cheek. Times, Sunday Times Four weeks later, it's moved down the face and appears below her left cheek. Times, Sunday Times Then move it to your left cheek and hold for 10 seconds, and then the right. The Sun But he obviously came off worse with a nasty-looking graze to his left cheek and bruising round his eye. The Sun In fact, the cut was deep enough to leave her with a scar on her left cheek. Times, Sunday Times She has pink cheeks, no makeup, and no lines, either. Times, Sunday Times Delicate pastel pink cheeks on a milky skin base make for a simple but effective winter look. The Sun Amelia expanded her smile a fraction further, creating tiny fissures in her smooth pink cheeks. Times, Sunday Times She has pink cheeks, pink lips and, we quickly discover, pink everything. Times, Sunday Times Everyone arrives with pink cheeks and watery eyes. Times, Sunday Times The 47-year-old star appears to have wider eyes, higher eyebrows, puffy cheeks and a taut forehead compared with her younger self. The Sun Between her perfect eyes and her elegant chin were a disproportionately large nose and strange, puffy cheeks. Times, Sunday Times I swear using it will lift the spirits as well as your puffy cheeks and eye bags. Times, Sunday Times He marvels at the way her puffy cheeks rise in a smile and how she sleeps oblivious to the danger outside. Times, Sunday Times She was always so happy and had these big puffy cheeks. Times, Sunday Times She removed a small patch of skin from his right cheek. Times, Sunday Times First a peck on the right cheek, then one on the left. The Sun As he turned to face the audience, a single tear was running down his ample right cheek. Times, Sunday Times When the silver-haired dad-of-three staggered to his feet, obviously badly shaken, his right cheek was cut and bruised. The Sun Usually it's right cheek first, but prepare to change direction at the last minute. Times, Sunday Times We should understand the 'heart gushings ... minds distracted by rosy cheeks, dark eyes and curly hair', exemplifying powerful physical urgings, of these times. The Times Literary Supplement They tend to feel dehydrated, are usually hot, flush easily or have rosy cheeks. Times, Sunday Times Fruits, too, are colouring well with apples forming rosy cheeks and cotoneasters loaded with bright red fruits. The Sun With aching limbs and rosy cheeks, our bodies had a fantastic workout while doing good and spending nothing. The Sun Were it not for the rosy cheeks and shiny hair, it could have been 1997 all over again. Times, Sunday Times The artist's sketch, from witness reports, shows the grey hair, deathly pallor and sunken cheeks of the 42-year-old 'albino apparition' rescued by cops. The Sun Look carefully at that face, at the wrinkles, the crepey, sunken cheeks, the frail, eroded jaw, the thin folds of wattle. Times, Sunday Times Their sunken cheeks, facial sores and vacant bloodshot eyes have left them looking much older than their real age. The Sun He has the silly moustache, of course, and the flick of hair, but the hunched shoulders and sunken cheeks when brooding over setbacks are utterly convincing. Times, Sunday Times Some branded him a disgrace who had wasted lottery money, but the sunken cheeks, hollow eyes and frighteningly bony shoulders told another story. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 脸颊 Japanese: ほお |
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