jowl
jowl 英 [dʒaʊl] 美 [dʒaʊl]
n. 颌；颚骨；面颊 vt. 碰；摇动 vi. 颠簸前进；敲钟
名词复数:jowls
- Jowls are excess flesh around the jaw and cheeks that tends to grow as people get older. The jowl is also the lower jaw, which is hinged so the mouth can open, in vertebrates.
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- n. 颌；颚骨；面颊
- vt. 碰；摇动
- vi. 颠簸前进；敲钟
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1. We see the union leaders cheek by jowl with the capitalists.
我们看到工会领导人和资本家们打得火热。
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2. The arrangement of water molecules in an ice crystal leaves small interstices, whereas the water molecules in liquid water are statistically cheek-to-jowl.
水分子在冰晶里的排列留下许多小空隙，而在液体水里，从统计学意义上讲，水分子们紧密地一个挨着一个，没有空隙。
- jowl (n.1) "jaw, jawbone," especially the underjaw, a late 16c. alteration of Middle English chawl (late 14c.), earlier chafle (c. 1200), from late Old English ceafl "jaw; cheek; jawbone; cheekbone," from Proto-Germanic *kefalaz (source of Middle High German kiver, German kiefer, Old Norse kjoptr "jaw," Danish kæft, Flemish kavel, Dutch kevel "gum"), from PIE *gep(h)- "jaw, mouth" (cognates: Old Irish gop, Irish gob "beak, mouth").
- jowl (n.2) "fold of flesh under the jaw," 1590s, alteration of Middle English cholle "fold of flesh hanging from the neck or jaw, double chin" (c. 1300), which is perhaps from or related to Old English ceole "throat" (from PIE root *gwele- (3) "to swallow;" see gullet), but the phonetic development would be abnormal. Also see jowl (n.1).
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