breast 1 S3 / brest / 名词

1 woman’s body [可数名词] one of the two round raised parts on a woman’s chest that produce milk when she has a baby :

These bras are specially designed for women with large breasts.

breast milk

breast cancer

bare-breasted/small-breasted etc

2 chest [可数名词] written the part of your body between your neck and your stomach :

Dick cradled her photograph against his breast.

3 bird [可数名词] the front part of a bird’s body, below its neck :

a robin with a red breast

red-breasted/white-breasted etc

red-breasted geese

4 meat [不可数名词] meat that comes from the front part of the body of a bird such as a chicken :

turkey breast

5 clothes [可数名词，通常单数] the part of a jacket, shirt etc that covers the top part of your chest → double-breasted , single-breasted

6 make a clean breast of it/things to admit that you have done something wrong

7 emotions [可数名词] literary where your feelings of sadness, love, anger, fear etc come from :

a troubled breast

→ beat your breast at beat 1 ( 31 ) , → chimney breast