喜樂美語
  1. 1nB1/ˈfɔːrɪd/ · /ˈfɒrɪd/額頭

    The flat part of your face above your eyes and below the place where your hair starts.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mum felt my forehead and said I should stay home and rest today.

    逐字媽媽摸了我的額頭，然後說我今天應該待在家裡休息。

    forehead 指的是臉上「眼睛上面、髮際線下面」的那一整片皮膚，中文就是額頭（比較正式的說法是前額）。它的長相很好記：可以想成 fore（前面）+ head（頭），也就是「頭的最前面那一塊」。要跟旁邊幾個部位分開：眉毛是 eyebrows，太陽穴那裡是 temples，而 brow 在文章裡有時候指眉毛、有時候指整片額頭，要看句子。台灣人最常用到 forehead 的場合，就是摸額頭看有沒有發燒（feel someone's forehead）。

    常見搭配

    • feel somebody's forehead

      摸某人的額頭（看有沒有發燒）

      to put your hand on someone's forehead to find out if they are too hot

      She felt her son's forehead and reached for the thermometer.

    • a high forehead

      高額頭

      a forehead where the hair starts a long way above the eyes

      Her grandfather has a high forehead and kind grey eyes.

    • wipe the sweat from your forehead

      擦掉額頭上的汗

      to move your hand or a cloth across your forehead to take the sweat away

      He wiped the sweat from his forehead and carried on digging.

    • wrinkle your forehead

      皺起額頭

      to move the skin on your forehead into lines, usually when you are thinking hard

      She wrinkled her forehead, trying to remember his name.

    • hair falls over your forehead

      頭髮垂到額頭上

      your hair hangs down and covers part of your forehead

      His straight black hair fell over his forehead when he looked down.

    • kiss somebody on the forehead

      親某人的額頭

      to kiss the top part of someone's face, often to show love or care

      She kissed her daughter on the forehead and turned off the light.

    意思相近

    brow

core核心畫面

You can picture the wide, flat panel of the face between two lines: the below, and the hairline above. It is the part someone touches to check if you have a fever, the part that when you , and the part a hat sits just above.

可以想成臉上被兩條線夾住的那一塊平面：下面是眉毛，上面是髮際線。那正是別人伸手探你有沒有發燒的地方，皺眉時會擠出橫紋的地方，帽子壓下來剛好蓋住的地方——一整片可以摸得到的平坦區域。

複數 foreheads

意思相近

brow

原始詞典資料3 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。

foreheadnoun/ˈfɔːhɛd/

  • 1

    The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.

    • 'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'
    • Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
  • 2

    confidence; audacity; impudence.

    • Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility
  • 3

    The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.

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