喜樂美語

Picture the hair a man lets grow on his chin and cheeks — a patch of hair sitting on the lower half of the face, which he can let grow long, keep short, or shave off completely. Everything else the word does starts from that patch of hair and where it sits.

可以想成一個男人下巴和兩頰上長出來的一片毛：它長在臉的下半部，可以留長、可以修短，也可以整片刮掉。這個字其他的用法，都可以從「那片毛、以及它長的位置」這個畫面看回去。

Two branches

臉上長的那片毛，以及長得像它的東西

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facial hair · noun · A1

the hair that grows on a man's face, around his chin and cheeks, which he can let grow long or shave off.

鬍子

只活在一個片語裡的動詞用法

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beard someone in their den · verb · C2

to go to someone who has power or authority and tell them directly what you want or why you disagree with them. This verb is only used in the phrase 'beard somebody (in their den)'.

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同家族的字

  • 形容詞bearded

n複數 beards

v過去式 bearded過去分詞 bearded-ing bearding三單 beards

意思相近

whiskersfacial hairstubblegoateetuftawnbristlesconfrontfacechallengeapproach

意思相反

avoidshy away from

原始詞典資料25 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Beardname

  • 1

    A surname transferred from the nickname.

  • 2

    A place name:

  • 3

    A place name:

  • 4

    A place name:

beardnoun/bɪəd/

  • 1

    Facial hair on the chin, cheeks, jaw and neck.

  • 2

    The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.

    • At this moment the cock began to play; he stuck out his beard, trailed his wings down by his legs, and made, with great solemnity and wavelike motions of his neck, a few steps forward on the branch, while he stuck up his tail and spread it out like a big wheel.
  • 3

    The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.

  • 4

    The byssus of certain shellfish.

  • 5

    The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.

  • 6

    biologyentomologylepidopterologyThe hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.

  • 7

    biologybotanynatural-sciencesThe long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.

    • the beard of grain
  • 8

    Long, hairlike feathers that protrude from the chest of a turkey.

    • While all toms—adult male turkeys—have beards, nearly 10 percent of hens also have one, albeit a much stubbier, wispier version.
另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.

  • 10

    The curved underside of an axehead, extending from the lower end of the cutting edge to the axehandle.

  • 11

    That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.

  • 12

    datedmediaprintingpublishingThat part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.

  • 13

    slangA fake customer or companion; an intermediary.

    • To get his way, Roberts employed a bit of developer's cunning: rather than approach Galardi directly, he sent a friend, Alan Meyers, as a “beard”.
  • 14

    slangA fake customer or companion; an intermediary.

    • What are you talking about, I should be the beard? I don't wanna be a beard.
  • 15

    slangA fake customer or companion; an intermediary.

    • One could also speculate that Linda also served as Cole's shield (or "beard") against his possibly being disinherited by his disapproving (of sissies) millionaire grandfather and doting mom, both of whom wanted him to be a lawyer.
    • Charlotte: Smith is not gay. Miranda: Of course not. Charlotte: So this makes you his beard.

beardverb/bɪəd/

  • 1

    obsoleteTo grow hair on the chin and jaw.

  • 2

    To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.

    • Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
    • Am I to be bearded in my own castle by an insolent monk?
  • 3

    To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.

  • 4

    To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.

  • 5

    agriculturebeekeepingbusinessOf bees, to accumulate together in a beard-like shape.

  • 6

    slangOf a gay man or woman: to accompany a gay person of the opposite sex in order to give the impression that they are heterosexual.

    • Lesbians and homosexual men bearding one another (i.e. providing each other with the public appearance of being heterosexual); […]
    • Things got weird after I married Jiro. It's like everyone knows I'm a lesbian who is bearding for her gay best friend so we can be rich one day, but they don't want to be reminded of it.

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