[N-COUNT 可数名词]腰;腰部 Your waist is the middle part of your body where it narrows slightly above your hips.
[oft poss N]
Ricky kept his arm round her waist...
里基一直揽着她的腰。
He was stripped to the waist.
他上身赤裸。
-waisted
Sarah looked slender-waisted, fragile and very beautiful.
萨拉纤纤细腰,弱不禁风,楚楚动人。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词](衣服的)腰部,腰身 The waist of a garment such as a dress, coat, or pair of trousers is the part of it which covers the middle part of your body.
-waisted
...high-waisted dresses.
高腰裙
Oxford
waist★/weɪst; NAmEweɪst/noun1★the area around the middle of the body between the ribsand the hips, often narrower than the areas above and below 腰;腰部;腰围◆He put his arm around her waist.他搂住了她的腰。◆She was paralysed from the waist down(= in the area below her waist).她从腰部以下都瘫痪了。◆The workmen were stripped to the waist(= wearing no clothes on the top half of their bodies).工人光着上身。☞collocationsat
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2★the part of a piece of clothing that covers the waist(衣服的)腰部,腰◆a skirt with an elasticated waist腰部有松紧带的裙子3-waisted( in adjectives 构成形容词) having the type of waistmentioned 有…腰身的;腰身…的◆a high-waisted dress高腰连衣裙waistwaistswaist/weɪst; NAmEweɪst/
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waistwaist /weɪst/ ●●●W3 noun [countable]
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1the narrow part in the middle of the human body: The skirt was too big around the waist.from the waist up/down (=in the top or bottom half of your body) Lota was paralysed from the waist down.stripped to the waist (=not wearing any clothes on the top half of your body)slim-waisted/narrow-waisted/thick-waisted (=having a thin, thick etc waist)2[usually singular] the part of a piece of clothing that goes around this part of your body ► Do not confuse with waste, which is used as a verb and a noun to talk about using too much of something, or not using it in a sensible way.
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