neck/nek/

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1. C 颈，脖子

• She wore a muffler around her neck. 她脖子上围了一条围巾。

2. C 衣领

• a V-neck V字领

3. C (瓶子等的)颈部

• the neck of a bottle 瓶颈

4. U (动物的可食用的)颈肉

• the neck of chicken 鸡脖子

词组be up to one's neck 深陷于；忙于 break one's neck

1. 折断脖子(致死)

2. 拼命工作

• We broke our neck trying to finish it in time. 我们拼命干以按时完成工作。

break the neck of

1. 完成某事最艰巨的部分

• break the neck of the project 完成工程的最艰巨部分

2. 压得…抬不起头来，把…累倒

breathe down sb.'s neck

1. 监视某人

2. (竞赛等时)紧跟在某人后面

• Many creditors were breathing down his neck. 许多债权人在向他逼债。

get it in the neck 受到严厉责骂

• He stayed out all night and got it in the neck from his father. 他彻夜未归，受到父亲的严厉责骂。

neck and neck 并驾齐驱地，不分上下地 neck of the woods

1. 附近地区

2. 森林中的居住地区

risk one's neck 冒着危险做 save one's neck

1. 使免于一死

2. 使免受危难

stick one's neck out 自找麻烦；惹祸