brow

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brow /braʊ/ ●○○ noun [countable]  1  HBH literary the part of your face above your eyes and below your hair 额 SYN foreheadmop/wipe your brow (=dry your brow with your hand or a cloth because you are hot or nervous) 〔因热或紧张〕擦额头（上的汗）your brow furrows/creases/wrinkles (=lines appear on your brow because you are thinking or are worried) 眉头紧锁 His brow furrowed. ‘I don’t understand, ’ he said. 他蹙起了眉头。“我不明白。”他说。2. HBHan eyebrow 眉，眉毛3. the brow of a hill TOPthe top part of a slope or hill 坡顶；山顶

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brow• Often has the aching brow of royalty resigned its crown, to be decked with the soothing chaplet of the shepherd swain.• A twitch of concern flickered across his brow.• Small horns, like the new moon, adorned her smooth human brow.• Sweat beaded on my brow, gathered under my arms, dampened the front of my singlet.• Forward, her Neanderthal brow juts out, spiked with lights and cameras.• The face itself was disbelieving, the stark pasted brows looped high over his pale eyes.• Her face in close-up, anxious, shadowy, the brow furrowed.mop/wipe your brow• He sat down and wiped his brow.• He took off his hard hat and wiped his brow, after checking for scaffolding.• He sighed and mopped his brow.• She sat on the bed, mopping his brow.• He pulls on his hat, wipes his brow, spits out some quid.• I wiped my brow, which had become a little sweaty, and took a last look up at the shadowless wall above.• The slope of her back, the way she wipes her brow.• Once Chuck turned and grinned delightedly at her as he paused to mop his brow, and she smiled warmly back.Origin brow Old English bru

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brow
brow /braʊ/ noun [countable]1. literary the part of your face above your eyes and below your hair
   SYN  forehead
    mop/wipe your brow (=dry your brow with your hand or a cloth because you are hot or nervous)
    your brow furrows/creases/wrinkles (=lines appear on your brow because you are thinking or are worried)
    His brow furrowed. ‘I don’t understand,’ he said.
2. an eyebrow
3. the brow of a hill the top part of a slope or hill

browBrE /braʊ/ 🔊NAmE /braʊ/ 🔊 noun(literary) the part of the face above the eyes and below the hair 额头 SYN forehead ◆The nurse mopped his fevered brow. 护士擦拭了他发烫的前额。🔊🔊◆Her brow furrowed in concentration. 她眉头紧锁全神贯注。🔊🔊 [usually plural] = eyebrow ◆One dark brow rose in surprise. 一道乌黑的眉毛惊奇地挑起。🔊🔊 [usually singular] the top part of a hill 山脊；坡顶◆The path disappeared over the brow of the hill. 小径过山顶后消失了。🔊🔊  ➡  see also highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow ●knit your ˈbrow(s)to move your eyebrows together, to show that you are thinking hard, feeling angry, etc. 皱眉（表示沉思、恼怒等） SYN frown