3PHRASE 冒着遭受失败(或指责)的风险;处于孤立无援的境地 If someone goes out on a limb, they do something they strongly believe in even though it is risky or extreme, and is likely to fail or be criticized by other people. 冒着遭受失败(或指责)的风险;处于孤立无援的境地
They can see themselves going out on a limb, voting for a very controversial energy bill.
他们可以预见到要是给极具争议性的能源法案投赞成票,可能会陷入孤立。
SYN independently, separately, in a dangerous position, sticking your neck out [informal]
4PHRASE [VERB inflects]撕裂…的肢体 If someone threatens to tear you limb from limb, they mean that they are extremely angry with you, and may use violence against you. 撕裂…的肢体
The police were lucky they found him before I did. I would have torn him limb from limb.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + LIMB | LIMB + NOUNADJECTIVE➤long修長的肢體➤short短小的肢體▸➤slender, thin苗條的肢體;瘦的肢體➤flailing胡搖亂晃的肢體◇Two arms reached around her flailing limbs.兩隻手臂抱住了她胡亂揮舞的肢體。➤powerful, strong有力的/強壯的肢體▸➤bare, naked裸露的肢體▸➤broken, injured骨折的/受傷的肢體➤sore痠痛的肢體▸➤stiff僵硬的肢體◇I eased my stiff limbs into the hot bath.我小心翼翼地把僵直的腿放進熱洗澡水裏。➤tired, weary (especially BrE) 疲乏的肢體▸➤amputated, severed斷肢➤missing殘缺的肢體◇The missing limb did not lessen the quality of the cat's life.少了一條腿並沒有影響那隻貓的生活質量。➤artificial, prosthetic假肢;義肢➤phantom幻肢◇sensations felt in phantom limbs after amputation截肢後的幻肢感覺➤lower, upper下肢;上肢▸➤hind後肢◇The animal is able to stand up on its hind limbs.這種動物能夠用後肢站立。VERB + LIMB➤amputate, sever截肢;切斷肢體➤lose失去肢體◇people who have lost limbs in battle在戰鬥中失去肢體的人們➤stretch伸展四肢◇I stretched my limbs lazily as I sat up.我坐起來的時候懶懶地伸展了一下四肢。LIMB + NOUN➤development, growth肢體的發育/生長➤amputation截肢