thigh

"Thigh" 直接源于古英语 "þeoh", 无特定词根。

n. 大腿，股 [ 复数 thighs ]

He tore a muscle in his right thigh.

他拉伤了右大腿的一块肌肉。

A thigh injury increasingly hindered her mobility.

大腿上的伤愈发束缚了她的活动自由。

I wasn't badly hurt, but I injured my thigh and had to limp.

我伤得并不严重，但我伤到了大腿，不得不一瘸一拐地走路。

此词可与 “High”联想记忆，High的音与 Thigh 类似，High指的是“高”的意思，暗示了大腿在人体肢体中偏“高”的位置。"Thigh" 是一个直接由古英语演化来的单词，并且在英美文化中，"thigh" 不仅指人的大腿，也可以指动物的后腿部分。

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And so she looked into the bone of this T. rex,one of the thigh bones,and she actually found

Their legs grew thick, their feet sturdy,and newly developed thigh muscles turnedthem into formidable runners.

A stack of flexible sheets contracts and relaxesjust like a thigh muscle does.Let me tell you how this works.

And we found this.This is a femur, a thigh bone,of a giant, plant-eating dinosaur.

and then much later realized that there wasa loose sock smushed up against your thigh?(Laughter)

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