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单词 cheek
释义
cheek
(k )
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 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.
cheek by jowl
very close together
After about seven years, all this living cheek by jowl began to irritate people.
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.
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)
hollow cheeks
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.
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left cheek
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
pink cheeks
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
puffy cheeks
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
right cheek
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
rosy cheeks
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
sunken cheeks
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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