belly, belt

belly

• A beer/pot belly is an overhang of fat above the waist, presumed to be caused by regular beer drinking.
• The belly-button is the navel [肚脐].
• A belly dancer is a woman who performs a Middle Eastern dance in which she moves her hips and abdomen about.
• [Chandler dressed as Santa [圣诞老人], has just been asked to leave] Chandler: But I didn't get to [没有机会] shake my belly like a bowl full of jelly.
• A belly-laugh is a deep loud unrestrained laugh.
• If a business or company goes belly up, it stops operating because it cannot pay its debts. [死鱼肚皮朝上]

belt [柯林斯]

• Something that is below the belt is cruel and unfair.
• If you have something under your belt, you have already achieved it or done it.
• If you have to tighten your belt, you have to spend less money and manage [设法过活] without things because you have less money than you used to have.
• Parts of the southern United States are referred to as the Bible Belt because Protestants [新教徒] with strong beliefs have a lot of influence there.
• In the United States and some other countries, the Rust [生锈的] Belt is a region which used to have a lot of manufacturing industry, but whose economy is now in difficulty.
• A commuter [通勤;上下班] belt is the area surrounding a large city, where many people who work in the city live.
• The stockbroker belt is an area outside a city, especially London, where rich people who travel to work in the city live.
• A green belt is an area of land with fields or parks around a town or city, where people are not allowed to build houses or factories by law.
• A conveyor belt or a conveyor is a continuously moving strip of rubber or metal which is used in factories for moving objects along so that they can be dealt with as quickly as possible.
• If you describe a situation as a conveyor belt, you dislike it because it produces things or people which are all the same or always deals with things or people in the same way.
• In a car engine, the fan belt is the belt that drives the fan which keeps the engine cool.
• A garter/suspender belt is a piece of underwear for women that is used for holding up stockings. [所谓嘉德勋章的嘉德，真的就是吊袜带]
• A safety/seat belt is a strap attached to a seat in a car or aeroplane. You fasten it round your body and it stops you being thrown forward if there is an accident.

六级/考研单词: waist, presume, regulate, hip, jelly, shallow, loud, unite, bible, rust, manufacture, commute, convey, rubber, situate, dislike, stocking, strap, fasten