詞彙精選：flesh的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

n.

肉 [U]

例句：

Lions are flesh-eating animals.

獅子是肉食動物。

例句：

No one carried a pound of superfluous flesh, in spite of the vast quantities of starchy food.

雖然吃進了那麼多的澱粉，可沒有一個人長有一磅多餘的肉。

果肉 [U]

例句：

The flesh of the peach was sweet and juicy.

這桃子的肉又甜，汁又多。

例句：

You can scoop out the flesh and serve it with sugar.

你可以把果肉挖出來加糖一起吃。

肉體 [U]

例句：

The resurrection is a resurrection of the flesh which died.

復活是復活已死亡的肉體。

例句：

Yoga is a kind of activity that combines spirit and flesh.

瑜伽是一種精神與肉體結合的運動。

情慾；肉慾 [U]

例句：

Often in past times, when the flesh was more stubborn, had she found strength and consolation in his very mediocre sermons.

過去，當肉慾較爲強盛的時候，她常常在他那平庸的說教中找到力量和安慰。

v.

用肉餵養 [T]

（使）長肉，發胖 [I,T]

例句：

Good fodder fleshed the steers up.

優質飼料使菜牛長肉。

例句：

He has fleshed out since we last saw him.

我們上回見到他以來他發胖了。

二、詞義辨析：

meat,flesh

這兩個名詞均含“肉”之意。meat是肉類的總稱，指食用的肉，但不包括魚類的肉。 flesh主要指人體或動物身上的肌肉組織，是從生理角度着眼的。也指動物的肉食。

三、相關短語：

flesh out

充實,使有血有肉

flesh wound

n.皮肉之傷,輕傷

in the flesh

以肉體形成,活生生的;本人,親自

proud flesh

n. 疤

flesh fly

n.[動]麻蠅,食肉蠅

四、參考例句：

flesh and blood

血肉之軀

Its flesh has exceptional delicacies.

它的肉異常鮮美。

Its flesh has exceptional delicacies.

它的肉異常鮮美。

Jimmy's flesh was heavy.

吉米的肌肉是厚實的。

The fair flesh forever is worth admiring.

白皙的肌膚永遠都值得豔羨。

It's just a flesh wound.

就是皮肉傷而已。

Meat is the flesh of an animal.

肉是動物身上的。

She lost flesh during her illness.

她在病中瘦了。

The playwright often fails to flesh out his characters.

劇作家往往不能使筆下的人物栩栩如生。

I think that without my flesh I will see God.

我想在皮肉滅絕之後，方可在肉體之外見得到神。