名词

1. 颈;脖子
Your neck is the part of your body which joins your head to the rest of your body.

2. 衣领;领口
The neck of an article of clothing such as a shirt, dress, or sweater is the part which surrounds your neck.

3. (瓶子、吉他等的)颈状部位，细长部分，颈部
The neck of something such as a bottle or a guitar is the long narrow part at one end of it.

4. 搂着脖子亲吻;相拥而吻
If two people are necking, they are kissing each other in a sexual way.

5. (赛马)以微弱优势(获胜)，险(胜)
If a horse wins a race by a neck, it wins by a very small distance.

6. 密切监视;紧紧盯住
If you say that someone is breathing down your neck, you mean that they are watching you very closely and checking everything you do.

7. (尤指选举中)并驾齐驱，难分高低
In a competition, especially an election, if two or more competitors are neck and neck, they are level with each other and have an equal chance of winning.

8. (常指为实现某事)冒险
If you say that someone is risking their neck, you mean they are doing something very dangerous, often in order to achieve something.

9. 保全(某人的工作或声誉)
To save someone's neck means to prevent them from losing their job or harming their reputation.

10. 担风险;找麻烦;惹祸
If you stick your neck out, you bravely say or do something that might be criticized or might turn out to be wrong.

11. 担负;缠住
If you say that you have something round your neck or around your neck, you mean that it is your responsibility and it causes you a lot of worry.

12. 深深陷入，被卷入(麻烦、罪行等)
If you say that someone is in some sort of trouble or criminal activity up to their neck, you mean that they are deeply involved in it.

13. 地段;附近地区
Someone or something that is from your neck of the woods is from the same part of the country as you are.

14. to have a millstone round your neck - see millstone
the scruff of your neck - see scruff

1. an opening in a garment for the neck of the wearer
a part of the garment near the wearer's neck

Synonym: neck opening

2. a narrow part of an artifact that resembles a neck in position or form

e.g. the banjo had a long neck
the bottle had a wide neck

3. the part of an organism (human or animal) that connects the head to the rest of the body

e.g. he admired her long graceful neck
the horse won by a neck

Synonym: cervix

4. a cut of meat from the neck of an animal

5. a narrow elongated projecting strip of land