Definition of muscle in English:

muscle

noun ˈmʌs(ə)lˈməsəl

1A band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body.
肌肉，肌
Muscles are formed of bands, sheets, or columns of elongated cells (or fibres) containing interlocking parallel arrays of the proteins actin and myosin. Projections on the myosin molecules respond to chemical signals by forming and reforming chemical bonds to the actin, so that the filaments move past each other and interlock more deeply. This converts chemical energy into the mechanical force of contraction, and also generates heat
the calf muscle
小腿肚上的肌肉。
mass noun the sheet of muscle between the abdomen and chest
腹胸之间的肌肉层。
Example sentencesExamples
- In this condition, muscle and fibrous tissues of the renal artery wall thicken and harden into rings.
- The processes that bring about movement of the voluntary muscles of the body start on the surface of the brain in an area called the motor cortex.
- Each time the calf and thigh muscles contract when walking, veins deep inside the leg are squeezed.
- The second group called sarcomas, arise from the substance of solid tissues such as muscle, bone, lymph glands, blood vessels and fibrous and other connective tissues.
- On physical examination, pain is present from the tip of the medial epicondyle to the pronator teres and flexor carpi radialis muscles.
- In this specimen, large lymphoid cells diffusely infiltrated muscle and fibrous tissue.
- Once extracted, they can be stimulated in a laboratory to develop into any type of body cell or organ including bone, muscle and body tissue.
- The tendon is the strong, white fibrous tissues that connect muscles to bones.
- A heartbeat is when the muscles of the heart contract and push blood around the body.
- A septum of connective tissue separates the circular muscle layers of the pylorus and duodenum.
- We should explain: a tendon is basically a strong piece of tissue which connects a muscle to bone and is the extension which pulls on the bone and allows the joint to straighten or flex.
- Energy is also needed to grow and repair the body's tissues, and to power the muscles for movement.
- The striated muscles innervated by cranial nerves are usually affected the most severely.
- The pain is the result of an overload on your tibia and the connective tissues that attach your muscles to your tibia.
- The powerful venom acts on the victim's voluntary muscles, paralysing the muscles required for body movement and breathing.
- Make sure you get sufficient protein to protect not only your bones, but your muscles and other body tissues.
- RSI occurs when repeated physical movements damage tendons, nerves, muscles and other soft body tissues.
- And I had thought maybe I'd done something, you know, pulled a muscle or something.
- He also leaned laterally during single leg stance, which may indicate weak gluteus medius muscles relative to his body weight.
- Contraction of the circumferential muscle bundles constricts the infundibulum to a conical shape.
Synonyms
literary thew
1. 1.1 A muscle or muscles when well developed or prominently visible under the skin.
  凸显的肌肉
  his muscles rippled beneath his tanned skin
  Example sentencesExamples
  She was thin, so nearly every bone protruded beneath translucent white skin and emaciated muscles.
  He watched the way she took up a pickaxe and swung it, saw the muscles rippling beneath her tanned skin.
  Both have played an awful lot of rugby in the past few seasons and right now they're concentrating on building muscle and power.
  The mastiff is powerful, heavy muscles rippling beneath its scarred pelt.
  He pressed his palm against Rob's chest, felt his heart beating slowly beneath the smooth, tanned skin and taut muscles.
  His muscles under his tan skin rippled, sending shivers up my spine.
  The mountain lion had a tawny coat; beneath, its muscles rippled, bunching and stretching with each step.
  He stroked her neck, feeling the strong muscles beneath the skin ripple at his touch.
  Vastly enhanced muscles rippled beneath his armour, as if threatening to burst through their restraints at any moment.
  She felt the slight ripple underneath the skin, his muscles bunching and clenching in reaction to her touch.
  Her physique is trim and strong; you can see every ripple of her well-defined muscles beneath her shiny fur.
  His silken hide of blood brown hue gleamed as he moved, muscles rippling beneath the sleek pelt.
  The muscles rippled and jerked under a sick gray skin that looked as though it had been stretched too tightly over the body.
  Her stomach tightens, strong muscles visible beneath her skin.
  He wore all black clothes but she could see the ripple of his muscles beneath the fabric on his arms and chest.
  He shrugged, muscles rippling beneath his bare bronzed skin.
  Beneath his golden skin, muscles rippled as he shifted positions.
  He was at least twice my size, all muscle and brute strength.
2mass noun Physical power; strength.
体力；气力
he had muscle but no brains
他身强力壮，但头脑简单。
Example sentencesExamples
- Months in the planning, it is a job that needs all the skills of a group of experienced villains, brains, muscle and connections, with no man greater than the sum of the whole.
- He thought Luke was all muscle and no brains.
- At power forward, Portland can go with Wallace or Brian Grant, depending on whether you want star power or muscle and hustle.
- We've power of muscle and brain, and where else is that combination useful?
- A matter of a difference in opinion should not be settled with muscle rather than the brain.
- But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
- The crafting of such language, potent with muscle and brain, lends objective shape to the act of consciousness itself.
- He taught that power was a must, yet it must be total power that included muscle, mind, and ki working in unison.
- Predictably, the alien blesses the boy with his powers, so the audience is not robbed of the opportunity to see some muscle, brawn and macho acts from the young star in the second half.
- Asha thought of him as a dumb jockey with no brains but plenty of muscle.
- The Wolves also could use some muscle at power forward, which would give Garnett and Smith some help up front and take the pressure off the perimeter shooters.
- But we've got to fight with our muscle and our brain, and do it in a smart way.
- He trained in the UK as a chef, but because of his dyslexia the jobs he can get use his muscle not his brain and he cannot get a driving licence - he can't take the written test.
- Nesterenko is tall and strong, though, and started mobilising that muscle at just the right time.
- He was the executive producer of the unit and its brains and muscle, too.
Synonyms
strength, power, muscularity, brawn, brawniness, burliness, huskiness
informal beef, beefiness
literary thew
1. 2.1informal A man or men exhibiting physical power or strength, typically employed to use or threaten violence.
  an ex-marine of enormous proportions who'd been brought along as muscle
  一个被当作大力士带来的腰圆膀粗的前海军陆战队员。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I really hope he cuts a deal and brings in the hired muscle.
  If the Sopranos ever need some muscle they should drop by the Flamingo.
  By this time both sides had brought some professional muscle to bear on proceedings.
  Louis was the sort of low-grade man child that shoestring celebrities often employ as muscle to keep up appearances and work as a butler.
  The former uses hired thugs to enforce repayment from the debtors; the latter employs the Feds as paid muscle.
2. 2.2 Power or influence, especially in a commercial or political sphere.
  （尤指商业、政治领域中的）权势，势力；影响力
  many companies lack the financial muscle to adopt a more hard-nosed relationship with buyers
  Example sentencesExamples
  Public officials must provide the political muscle and resources to implement these programs.
  The truth is, governments and governments alone have the financial and political muscle that can deliver real change.
  Australia has given more than one million dollars to help the process along and it could still be asked to supply judicial muscle to the international tribunal.
  The government would provide money to groups of volunteers to give financial muscle to land care projects across the nation.
  Countries needed to put political muscle behind health improvement measures, he added.
  They'd just pay their better players more, and use their financial muscle to build a dominant team.
  These groups are easy targets because they don't have the political muscle or the money.
  With European animation companies supplying the creative juice and the US bringing their marketing muscle to bear, these could be profitable for all concerned.
  These offer the prospect of being able to mobilise grassroots lobbying muscle to influence policy makers.
  Behind the scenes, a bit of diplomatic muscle was brought to bear.
  But it is an election year and these groups are ready to flex the political muscle.
  His Parliamentary opponents delightedly congratulated each other on their unprecedented exhibition of constitutional muscle.
  This is a clear case of a multinational conglomerate using its political muscle to the disadvantage of everyone but itself.
  Sent this book by someone with less commercial muscle, his editors would unquestionably have demanded a thorough overhaul.
  Did you applaud the hauliers and farmers and gleefully hope that their muscle would bring down the cost of fuel?
  The history of the first group of wines has been heavily influenced, nay hampered, by the commercial muscle of protectionist Bordeaux.
  Consumer and other civic interest groups also put their feet in the door, though they found it much harder to exercise effective political muscle.
  It is a clever strategy, which has the double benefit of emphasising the Chancellor's political muscle while displaying the weakness of his rival.
  But he needed some financial muscle, a little fiscal clout to open a few doors for him.
  And the only way to do that is to use the industrial and political muscle that unions have because individuals can't make a lot of difference.
  Synonyms
  influence, power, strength, might, force, forcefulness, weight, potency
  informal clout, beef, pull

verb ˈmʌs(ə)lˈməsəl

North American informal

1with object and adverbial Move (an object) in a particular direction by using one's physical strength.
〈北美，非正式〉用力搬动（物体）
they were muscling baggage into the hold of the plane
他们正用力把行李运进飞机货舱。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was muscling its way onto shore, hands sinking deeply into the sand.
- This chef is a meat man, of course, an aggressive, boisterous character used to spending long hours muscling chickens and slabs of beef over a hot open flame.
- He muscles the log toward the opposite bank, crouches atop a slick boulder, and steadies the log.
- The silver of the cuffs that bind his hands together behind his back glint as they muscle him down in the direction of the street below, where many sprawling police cars have gathered.
- It moves by rolling, log-style, or by lifting its head or tail, inchworm-like, and muscling itself forward.
- He was a young kid, and now they were going to muscle him out of there.
- A third-generation Marine, he lugged the same heavy pack, muscled the same kind of machine gun into his foxhole at night and took the same risks as any of the bigger men.
- His strength allows him to muscle shots even when he doesn't put the bat's sweet spot on the ball.
- The six-liter, 325-horsepower turbo diesel engine can muscle you up loose inclines and keep you in the passing lane.
1. 1.1 Coerce by violence or by economic or political pressure.
  〈非正式，主北美〉以暴力迫使；以经济（或政治）压力迫使
  he was eventually muscled out of the market
  他最终被逼让出了他的市场份额。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And Labour MPs have not just muscled this off the agenda in the run-up to the General Election expected next summer only to see it reappear in the autumn.
  He suffered the further indignity of almost being muscled out of the party by executives who wanted to strip him of his riding nomination.
  I was driving to work one morning recently when a gentleman in a big Sports Utility Vehicle barreled down on me from a side street and muscled his way into the line of morning traffic.
  The government also seem to have muscled out the UN in the reconstruction programme.
  We see it every day on our way to work, a street scene replicated city-wide: white-collar execs hailing taxis on every street corner, muscling others out of the way for the comfort of air-conditioned interiors.

Phrases

not move a muscle

Not move at all.
the driver shouted in his ear, but he did not move a muscle
Example sentencesExamples
- Gregory didn't move a muscle as this stranger approached them.
- She stood trembling slightly, but didn't move a muscle.
- I don't move a muscle, keeping my face completely unreadable.
- He didn't say anything and didn't move a muscle.
- In fact, he didn't move a muscle, though his mind was going a mile a minute.
- Caroline didn't move a muscle, but processed this information carefully.
- Her wild curls whip around her face, but she doesn't move a muscle.
- She didn't move a muscle, except for the slight spasm in her hand.
- Ricky didn't move a muscle, but inside he felt so sick.
- In any case, he didn't move a muscle - indeed, he appeared uncharacteristically calm - as I advanced slowly but steadily in his direction.

Phrasal Verbs

muscle in/into

Use one's power or influence to interfere with or become involved in (another's affairs)
the banks' attempts to muscle in on the insurance business
Example sentencesExamples
- However, supermarkets have been muscling in on the market too, stocking a range of foodstuffs - importantly bringing the notion of Fairtrade to a wider audience.
- The superiority lasted only until the ninth minute, when Makel muscled into the script.
- Foreign distillers are muscling in on a bubbling domestic market
- The Strathclyde source also revealed his associates have been trying to muscle into the drugs trade in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- Haven't the judges done enough harm already by muscling in on the political arena?
- That could mean new launches will find it harder to muscle into the territory without deep pockets.
- Now they want to make your phone ring, and are muscling into the lucrative mobile market.
- The nuclear energy industry is also muscling in on this one.
- It has muscled into this market and has grown to a reasonable size.
- Somehow this company muscling into our market was never going to take off.
- Was this Kelley's way of getting back at me for muscling in on his life?
- A new budget hotel chain has muscled into the market there with a somewhat spurious name.
- But if you were running a commercial legal practice, in addition to this heightened conservatism you'd hardly welcome qualified social workers muscling into family law practices.
- But even though the stamp conference was attracting greater numbers, it was the politicians who appeared to be muscling in on the stamp collectors' space.
- In addition, detectives were probing allegations that members of paramilitary organisations were muscling in on the industry.
- There was a guy that I went to college with who ran the Fair, so we kinda muscled our way in.
- I also thought that, as a gay man, I represented the minority of the ‘at risk’ group, and therefore I would be muscling my way in on something that should really be someone else's issue.
- Hedge-fund managers are now muscling in on traditional managers of pension funds and other pools of capital.
- But other criminal elements are muscling in on the business, including 10-year-old boys who have astounded the authorities with their audacity.
- I'm sure physicists don't want us muscling in on their territory.
Synonyms
interfere with, force one's way into, elbow one's way in on, butt in on, impose oneself on, encroach on

muscle up

Build up one's muscles.
〈美，非正式〉使肌肉发达
to prepare for his role, he cut his hair, muscled up, and went to boot camp
Example sentencesExamples
- These 10 tips for triceps training will help you muscle up the back of your arms in the shortest time possible.
- Of particular interest: trout that muscle up rapidly on environmentally friendly, grain-based feeds, made from oats or barley, for instance.
- If there's one bodypart that hardgainers have extra difficulty muscling up, it's thighs.
- Even easygainers often have trouble muscling up this area.
- For the guy looking to muscle up and lean out, protein is a big part of the puzzle.
- They're strong, don't get me wrong, but they're not all muscled up.
- They're better than squats for muscling up the quads and targeting different areas, and they're safer, too.
- But now the players are muscling up without bulking up.
- Players may become bigger and stronger, and such muscling up certainly would help ‘a football linebacker or a professional wrestler or a saloon bouncer,’ he said.
- He finally has gotten serious about his weight problem and has trimmed down and muscled up during the offseason.
- With his size he does not have to muscle up to hit home runs.
- I'd thought beforehand that he looked far from racing fit, very fat and not muscled up at all.
- In my neck of the woods these sleek silver specimens, muscled up with the rich feeding of the ocean, are often called ‘greyhounds of the sea‘.
- Instead, the following triceps guide is designed to muscle up the back of your arms as fast as possible.
- Deadlifts are foremost a lower-back exercise, but they muscle up your entire backside from your glutes to your neck.
- The 31-year-old did play semipro football for a number of years, and he began lifting weights six years ago to muscle up.
- They all looked spectacular, all muscled up and filled out.

Derivatives

muscleless

adjective

The Captain put his long muscleless arm around me, and we sat together on the wall.
Example sentencesExamples
- In addition, it was recognized that muscleless adult females had more eggs in their ovaries than muscled females.
- With how fat and muscleless you are, you can gain muscle and cut fat at the same time!
- The boy was already sprawled inside, his pants twisted up, exposing skinny, muscleless calves.
- Her current work now demonstrates that the tendons of muscleless limbs when grafted into the coelomic cavity undergo normal temporal and spatial patterning in the absence of muscle.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French, from Latin musculus, diminutive of mus 'mouse' (some muscles being thought to be mouse-like in form).

The ancient Romans saw a resemblance between a flexing muscle in the upper arm and the movements of a mouse. Latin musculus, from mus ‘mouse’, meant ‘little mouse’ and also ‘muscle’. It entered English through French in the 14th century. The edible mollusc the mussel (Old English) is the same word, and the accepted spellings of both words remained variable into the 19th century.

Rhymes

bustle, mussel, Russell, rustle, tussle

Definition of muscle in US English:

muscle

nounˈməsəlˈməsəl

1A band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body.
肌肉，肌
Muscles are formed of bands, sheets, or columns of elongated cells (or fibers) containing interlocking parallel arrays of the proteins actin and myosin. Projections on the myosin molecules respond to chemical signals by forming and reforming chemical bonds to the actin, so that the filaments move past each other and interlock more deeply. This converts chemical energy into the mechanical force of contraction, and also generates heat
the calf muscle
小腿肚上的肌肉。
the sheet of muscle between the abdomen and chest
腹胸之间的肌肉层。
Example sentencesExamples
- Once extracted, they can be stimulated in a laboratory to develop into any type of body cell or organ including bone, muscle and body tissue.
- In this condition, muscle and fibrous tissues of the renal artery wall thicken and harden into rings.
- The processes that bring about movement of the voluntary muscles of the body start on the surface of the brain in an area called the motor cortex.
- The powerful venom acts on the victim's voluntary muscles, paralysing the muscles required for body movement and breathing.
- And I had thought maybe I'd done something, you know, pulled a muscle or something.
- RSI occurs when repeated physical movements damage tendons, nerves, muscles and other soft body tissues.
- The pain is the result of an overload on your tibia and the connective tissues that attach your muscles to your tibia.
- We should explain: a tendon is basically a strong piece of tissue which connects a muscle to bone and is the extension which pulls on the bone and allows the joint to straighten or flex.
- Each time the calf and thigh muscles contract when walking, veins deep inside the leg are squeezed.
- The striated muscles innervated by cranial nerves are usually affected the most severely.
- On physical examination, pain is present from the tip of the medial epicondyle to the pronator teres and flexor carpi radialis muscles.
- A heartbeat is when the muscles of the heart contract and push blood around the body.
- Contraction of the circumferential muscle bundles constricts the infundibulum to a conical shape.
- He also leaned laterally during single leg stance, which may indicate weak gluteus medius muscles relative to his body weight.
- In this specimen, large lymphoid cells diffusely infiltrated muscle and fibrous tissue.
- The tendon is the strong, white fibrous tissues that connect muscles to bones.
- Make sure you get sufficient protein to protect not only your bones, but your muscles and other body tissues.
- A septum of connective tissue separates the circular muscle layers of the pylorus and duodenum.
- Energy is also needed to grow and repair the body's tissues, and to power the muscles for movement.
- The second group called sarcomas, arise from the substance of solid tissues such as muscle, bone, lymph glands, blood vessels and fibrous and other connective tissues.
Synonyms
thew
1. 1.1 A band or bundle of tissue when well developed or prominently visible under the skin.
  凸显的肌肉
  showing off our muscles to prove how strong we were
  展示我们的肌肉来证明我们是多么强壮。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He wore all black clothes but she could see the ripple of his muscles beneath the fabric on his arms and chest.
  Both have played an awful lot of rugby in the past few seasons and right now they're concentrating on building muscle and power.
  Beneath his golden skin, muscles rippled as he shifted positions.
  Her physique is trim and strong; you can see every ripple of her well-defined muscles beneath her shiny fur.
  He pressed his palm against Rob's chest, felt his heart beating slowly beneath the smooth, tanned skin and taut muscles.
  He was at least twice my size, all muscle and brute strength.
  The mountain lion had a tawny coat; beneath, its muscles rippled, bunching and stretching with each step.
  His silken hide of blood brown hue gleamed as he moved, muscles rippling beneath the sleek pelt.
  He shrugged, muscles rippling beneath his bare bronzed skin.
  She felt the slight ripple underneath the skin, his muscles bunching and clenching in reaction to her touch.
  Vastly enhanced muscles rippled beneath his armour, as if threatening to burst through their restraints at any moment.
  She was thin, so nearly every bone protruded beneath translucent white skin and emaciated muscles.
  He watched the way she took up a pickaxe and swung it, saw the muscles rippling beneath her tanned skin.
  He stroked her neck, feeling the strong muscles beneath the skin ripple at his touch.
  The mastiff is powerful, heavy muscles rippling beneath its scarred pelt.
  Her stomach tightens, strong muscles visible beneath her skin.
  The muscles rippled and jerked under a sick gray skin that looked as though it had been stretched too tightly over the body.
  His muscles under his tan skin rippled, sending shivers up my spine.
2Physical power; strength.
体力；气力
he had muscle but no brains
他身强力壮，但头脑简单。
Example sentencesExamples
- Predictably, the alien blesses the boy with his powers, so the audience is not robbed of the opportunity to see some muscle, brawn and macho acts from the young star in the second half.
- The crafting of such language, potent with muscle and brain, lends objective shape to the act of consciousness itself.
- Months in the planning, it is a job that needs all the skills of a group of experienced villains, brains, muscle and connections, with no man greater than the sum of the whole.
- He thought Luke was all muscle and no brains.
- He taught that power was a must, yet it must be total power that included muscle, mind, and ki working in unison.
- A matter of a difference in opinion should not be settled with muscle rather than the brain.
- We've power of muscle and brain, and where else is that combination useful?
- Asha thought of him as a dumb jockey with no brains but plenty of muscle.
- The Wolves also could use some muscle at power forward, which would give Garnett and Smith some help up front and take the pressure off the perimeter shooters.
- But we've got to fight with our muscle and our brain, and do it in a smart way.
- At power forward, Portland can go with Wallace or Brian Grant, depending on whether you want star power or muscle and hustle.
- But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
- He was the executive producer of the unit and its brains and muscle, too.
- He trained in the UK as a chef, but because of his dyslexia the jobs he can get use his muscle not his brain and he cannot get a driving licence - he can't take the written test.
- Nesterenko is tall and strong, though, and started mobilising that muscle at just the right time.
Synonyms
strength, power, muscularity, brawn, brawniness, burliness, huskiness
1. 2.1informal A person or people exhibiting physical power or strength.
  〈非正式〉身强力壮的男子（们），孔武有力的人（们）
  an ex-marine of enormous proportions who'd been brought along as muscle
  一个被当作大力士带来的腰圆膀粗的前海军陆战队员。
  Example sentencesExamples
  By this time both sides had brought some professional muscle to bear on proceedings.
  I really hope he cuts a deal and brings in the hired muscle.
  If the Sopranos ever need some muscle they should drop by the Flamingo.
  The former uses hired thugs to enforce repayment from the debtors; the latter employs the Feds as paid muscle.
  Louis was the sort of low-grade man child that shoestring celebrities often employ as muscle to keep up appearances and work as a butler.
2. 2.2 Power or influence, especially in a commercial or political context.
  （尤指商业、政治领域中的）权势，势力；影响力
  he had enough muscle and resources to hold his position on the council
  他有足够的影响力和智谋在市政会中任职。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Consumer and other civic interest groups also put their feet in the door, though they found it much harder to exercise effective political muscle.
  They'd just pay their better players more, and use their financial muscle to build a dominant team.
  It is a clever strategy, which has the double benefit of emphasising the Chancellor's political muscle while displaying the weakness of his rival.
  Public officials must provide the political muscle and resources to implement these programs.
  Australia has given more than one million dollars to help the process along and it could still be asked to supply judicial muscle to the international tribunal.
  With European animation companies supplying the creative juice and the US bringing their marketing muscle to bear, these could be profitable for all concerned.
  These offer the prospect of being able to mobilise grassroots lobbying muscle to influence policy makers.
  And the only way to do that is to use the industrial and political muscle that unions have because individuals can't make a lot of difference.
  Sent this book by someone with less commercial muscle, his editors would unquestionably have demanded a thorough overhaul.
  Did you applaud the hauliers and farmers and gleefully hope that their muscle would bring down the cost of fuel?
  His Parliamentary opponents delightedly congratulated each other on their unprecedented exhibition of constitutional muscle.
  But he needed some financial muscle, a little fiscal clout to open a few doors for him.
  These groups are easy targets because they don't have the political muscle or the money.
  This is a clear case of a multinational conglomerate using its political muscle to the disadvantage of everyone but itself.
  The truth is, governments and governments alone have the financial and political muscle that can deliver real change.
  The government would provide money to groups of volunteers to give financial muscle to land care projects across the nation.
  Countries needed to put political muscle behind health improvement measures, he added.
  But it is an election year and these groups are ready to flex the political muscle.
  The history of the first group of wines has been heavily influenced, nay hampered, by the commercial muscle of protectionist Bordeaux.
  Behind the scenes, a bit of diplomatic muscle was brought to bear.
  Synonyms
  influence, power, strength, might, force, forcefulness, weight, potency

verbˈməsəlˈməsəl

North American informal

1with object and adverbial Move (an object) in a particular direction by using one's physical strength.
〈北美，非正式〉用力搬动（物体）
they were muscling baggage into the hold of the plane
他们正用力把行李运进飞机货舱。
Example sentencesExamples
- This chef is a meat man, of course, an aggressive, boisterous character used to spending long hours muscling chickens and slabs of beef over a hot open flame.
- A third-generation Marine, he lugged the same heavy pack, muscled the same kind of machine gun into his foxhole at night and took the same risks as any of the bigger men.
- He muscles the log toward the opposite bank, crouches atop a slick boulder, and steadies the log.
- The silver of the cuffs that bind his hands together behind his back glint as they muscle him down in the direction of the street below, where many sprawling police cars have gathered.
- The six-liter, 325-horsepower turbo diesel engine can muscle you up loose inclines and keep you in the passing lane.
- His strength allows him to muscle shots even when he doesn't put the bat's sweet spot on the ball.
- It moves by rolling, log-style, or by lifting its head or tail, inchworm-like, and muscling itself forward.
- He was a young kid, and now they were going to muscle him out of there.
- It was muscling its way onto shore, hands sinking deeply into the sand.
1. 1.1 Coerce by violence or by economic or political pressure.
  〈非正式，主北美〉以暴力迫使；以经济（或政治）压力迫使
  he was eventually muscled out of business
  他最终被逼让出了他的市场份额。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He suffered the further indignity of almost being muscled out of the party by executives who wanted to strip him of his riding nomination.
  And Labour MPs have not just muscled this off the agenda in the run-up to the General Election expected next summer only to see it reappear in the autumn.
  I was driving to work one morning recently when a gentleman in a big Sports Utility Vehicle barreled down on me from a side street and muscled his way into the line of morning traffic.
  We see it every day on our way to work, a street scene replicated city-wide: white-collar execs hailing taxis on every street corner, muscling others out of the way for the comfort of air-conditioned interiors.
  The government also seem to have muscled out the UN in the reconstruction programme.

Phrases

flex one's muscles
〈美，非正式〉使肌肉发达

Give a show of strength or power.
显示实力
Example sentencesExamples
- Now that Labour is safely back in power, the public sector unions have already started to flex their muscles.
- Now they are flexing their muscles, increasingly conscious of their strength and ever more radical in their demands.
- They routinely flexed their muscles in the form of politically-motivated strikes, most significantly in the early 1970s when they helped bring down Edward Heath's Conservative government.
- So at some stage you have to lay down the law and your kids will see it as you flexing your muscles and being unkind to them but in reality you are just teaching them for the future or protecting them.
- But the US regulators are also flexing their muscles and seeking to impose their standards on other markets around the world.
- Committees are also flexing their muscles in ways ministers are struggling to predict.
- Superpowers flexed their muscles figuratively in the space race and literally at the Olympics.
- And who can forget the imperial powers flexing their muscles - Mussolini's Italy invading Ethiopia, Hitler's Germany making its territorial advances in Europe.
- History often provides an opportunity for political outfits to flex their muscles and resort to a show of pomp to impress a wavering rank and file.
- The so-called ‘dwarfs’ of the EU flexed their muscles at the Athens summit yesterday and insisted their opposition to a permanent and single EU president must be heeded.

not move a muscle

Be completely motionless.
一动不动，纹丝不动
Example sentencesExamples
- In fact, he didn't move a muscle, though his mind was going a mile a minute.
- She didn't move a muscle, except for the slight spasm in her hand.
- Gregory didn't move a muscle as this stranger approached them.
- Ricky didn't move a muscle, but inside he felt so sick.
- Her wild curls whip around her face, but she doesn't move a muscle.
- Caroline didn't move a muscle, but processed this information carefully.
- I don't move a muscle, keeping my face completely unreadable.
- He didn't say anything and didn't move a muscle.
- She stood trembling slightly, but didn't move a muscle.
- In any case, he didn't move a muscle - indeed, he appeared uncharacteristically calm - as I advanced slowly but steadily in his direction.

Phrasal Verbs

muscle in/into

Force one's way into (something), typically in order to gain an advantage.
〈非正式〉（为获取利益而）强行挤入（或插手）
muscling his way into meetings and important conferences
he was determined to muscle in on the union's affairs
他决意强行插手工会事务。
Example sentencesExamples
- Was this Kelley's way of getting back at me for muscling in on his life?
- A new budget hotel chain has muscled into the market there with a somewhat spurious name.
- That could mean new launches will find it harder to muscle into the territory without deep pockets.
- But if you were running a commercial legal practice, in addition to this heightened conservatism you'd hardly welcome qualified social workers muscling into family law practices.
- But other criminal elements are muscling in on the business, including 10-year-old boys who have astounded the authorities with their audacity.
- Foreign distillers are muscling in on a bubbling domestic market
- I'm sure physicists don't want us muscling in on their territory.
- Haven't the judges done enough harm already by muscling in on the political arena?
- I also thought that, as a gay man, I represented the minority of the ‘at risk’ group, and therefore I would be muscling my way in on something that should really be someone else's issue.
- Now they want to make your phone ring, and are muscling into the lucrative mobile market.
- But even though the stamp conference was attracting greater numbers, it was the politicians who appeared to be muscling in on the stamp collectors' space.
- Hedge-fund managers are now muscling in on traditional managers of pension funds and other pools of capital.
- The Strathclyde source also revealed his associates have been trying to muscle into the drugs trade in Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- However, supermarkets have been muscling in on the market too, stocking a range of foodstuffs - importantly bringing the notion of Fairtrade to a wider audience.
- The superiority lasted only until the ninth minute, when Makel muscled into the script.
- It has muscled into this market and has grown to a reasonable size.
- Somehow this company muscling into our market was never going to take off.
- In addition, detectives were probing allegations that members of paramilitary organisations were muscling in on the industry.
- The nuclear energy industry is also muscling in on this one.
- There was a guy that I went to college with who ran the Fair, so we kinda muscled our way in.
Synonyms
interfere with, force one's way into, elbow one's way in on, butt in on, impose oneself on, encroach on

muscle up

Build up one's muscles.
〈美，非正式〉使肌肉发达
Example sentencesExamples
- Of particular interest: trout that muscle up rapidly on environmentally friendly, grain-based feeds, made from oats or barley, for instance.
- These 10 tips for triceps training will help you muscle up the back of your arms in the shortest time possible.
- Even easygainers often have trouble muscling up this area.
- For the guy looking to muscle up and lean out, protein is a big part of the puzzle.
- In my neck of the woods these sleek silver specimens, muscled up with the rich feeding of the ocean, are often called ‘greyhounds of the sea‘.
- Deadlifts are foremost a lower-back exercise, but they muscle up your entire backside from your glutes to your neck.
- The 31-year-old did play semipro football for a number of years, and he began lifting weights six years ago to muscle up.
- He finally has gotten serious about his weight problem and has trimmed down and muscled up during the offseason.
- I'd thought beforehand that he looked far from racing fit, very fat and not muscled up at all.
- With his size he does not have to muscle up to hit home runs.
- Players may become bigger and stronger, and such muscling up certainly would help ‘a football linebacker or a professional wrestler or a saloon bouncer,’ he said.
- If there's one bodypart that hardgainers have extra difficulty muscling up, it's thighs.
- They're better than squats for muscling up the quads and targeting different areas, and they're safer, too.
- They all looked spectacular, all muscled up and filled out.
- Instead, the following triceps guide is designed to muscle up the back of your arms as fast as possible.
- They're strong, don't get me wrong, but they're not all muscled up.
- But now the players are muscling up without bulking up.

Origin

Late Middle English: from French, from Latin musculus, diminutive of mus ‘mouse’ (some muscles being thought to be mouse-like in form).

词汇	muscle
释义	Definition of muscle in English: muscle noun ˈmʌs(ə)lˈməsəl 1A band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body. 肌肉，肌 Muscles are formed of bands, sheets, or columns of elongated cells (or fibres) containing interlocking parallel arrays of the proteins actin and myosin. Projections on the myosin molecules respond to chemical signals by forming and reforming chemical bonds to the actin, so that the filaments move past each other and interlock more deeply. This converts chemical energy into the mechanical force of contraction, and also generates heat the calf muscle 小腿肚上的肌肉。 mass noun the sheet of muscle between the abdomen and chest 腹胸之间的肌肉层。 Example sentencesExamples In this condition, muscle and fibrous tissues of the renal artery wall thicken and harden into rings. The processes that bring about movement of the voluntary muscles of the body start on the surface of the brain in an area called the motor cortex. Each time the calf and thigh muscles contract when walking, veins deep inside the leg are squeezed. The second group called sarcomas, arise from the substance of solid tissues such as muscle, bone, lymph glands, blood vessels and fibrous and other connective tissues. On physical examination, pain is present from the tip of the medial epicondyle to the pronator teres and flexor carpi radialis muscles. In this specimen, large lymphoid cells diffusely infiltrated muscle and fibrous tissue. Once extracted, they can be stimulated in a laboratory to develop into any type of body cell or organ including bone, muscle and body tissue. The tendon is the strong, white fibrous tissues that connect muscles to bones. A heartbeat is when the muscles of the heart contract and push blood around the body. A septum of connective tissue separates the circular muscle layers of the pylorus and duodenum. We should explain: a tendon is basically a strong piece of tissue which connects a muscle to bone and is the extension which pulls on the bone and allows the joint to straighten or flex. Energy is also needed to grow and repair the body's tissues, and to power the muscles for movement. The striated muscles innervated by cranial nerves are usually affected the most severely. The pain is the result of an overload on your tibia and the connective tissues that attach your muscles to your tibia. The powerful venom acts on the victim's voluntary muscles, paralysing the muscles required for body movement and breathing. Make sure you get sufficient protein to protect not only your bones, but your muscles and other body tissues. RSI occurs when repeated physical movements damage tendons, nerves, muscles and other soft body tissues. And I had thought maybe I'd done something, you know, pulled a muscle or something. He also leaned laterally during single leg stance, which may indicate weak gluteus medius muscles relative to his body weight. Contraction of the circumferential muscle bundles constricts the infundibulum to a conical shape. Synonyms literary thew 1.1 A muscle or muscles when well developed or prominently visible under the skin. 凸显的肌肉 his muscles rippled beneath his tanned skin Example sentencesExamples She was thin, so nearly every bone protruded beneath translucent white skin and emaciated muscles. He watched the way she took up a pickaxe and swung it, saw the muscles rippling beneath her tanned skin. Both have played an awful lot of rugby in the past few seasons and right now they're concentrating on building muscle and power. The mastiff is powerful, heavy muscles rippling beneath its scarred pelt. He pressed his palm against Rob's chest, felt his heart beating slowly beneath the smooth, tanned skin and taut muscles. His muscles under his tan skin rippled, sending shivers up my spine. The mountain lion had a tawny coat; beneath, its muscles rippled, bunching and stretching with each step. He stroked her neck, feeling the strong muscles beneath the skin ripple at his touch. Vastly enhanced muscles rippled beneath his armour, as if threatening to burst through their restraints at any moment. She felt the slight ripple underneath the skin, his muscles bunching and clenching in reaction to her touch. Her physique is trim and strong; you can see every ripple of her well-defined muscles beneath her shiny fur. His silken hide of blood brown hue gleamed as he moved, muscles rippling beneath the sleek pelt. The muscles rippled and jerked under a sick gray skin that looked as though it had been stretched too tightly over the body. Her stomach tightens, strong muscles visible beneath her skin. He wore all black clothes but she could see the ripple of his muscles beneath the fabric on his arms and chest. He shrugged, muscles rippling beneath his bare bronzed skin. Beneath his golden skin, muscles rippled as he shifted positions. He was at least twice my size, all muscle and brute strength. 2mass noun Physical power; strength. 体力；气力 he had muscle but no brains 他身强力壮，但头脑简单。 Example sentencesExamples Months in the planning, it is a job that needs all the skills of a group of experienced villains, brains, muscle and connections, with no man greater than the sum of the whole. He thought Luke was all muscle and no brains. At power forward, Portland can go with Wallace or Brian Grant, depending on whether you want star power or muscle and hustle. We've power of muscle and brain, and where else is that combination useful? A matter of a difference in opinion should not be settled with muscle rather than the brain. But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. The crafting of such language, potent with muscle and brain, lends objective shape to the act of consciousness itself. He taught that power was a must, yet it must be total power that included muscle, mind, and ki working in unison. Predictably, the alien blesses the boy with his powers, so the audience is not robbed of the opportunity to see some muscle, brawn and macho acts from the young star in the second half. Asha thought of him as a dumb jockey with no brains but plenty of muscle. The Wolves also could use some muscle at power forward, which would give Garnett and Smith some help up front and take the pressure off the perimeter shooters. But we've got to fight with our muscle and our brain, and do it in a smart way. He trained in the UK as a chef, but because of his dyslexia the jobs he can get use his muscle not his brain and he cannot get a driving licence - he can't take the written test. Nesterenko is tall and strong, though, and started mobilising that muscle at just the right time. He was the executive producer of the unit and its brains and muscle, too. Synonyms strength, power, muscularity, brawn, brawniness, burliness, huskiness informal beef, beefiness literary thew 2.1informal A man or men exhibiting physical power or strength, typically employed to use or threaten violence. an ex-marine of enormous proportions who'd been brought along as muscle 一个被当作大力士带来的腰圆膀粗的前海军陆战队员。 Example sentencesExamples I really hope he cuts a deal and brings in the hired muscle. If the Sopranos ever need some muscle they should drop by the Flamingo. By this time both sides had brought some professional muscle to bear on proceedings. Louis was the sort of low-grade man child that shoestring celebrities often employ as muscle to keep up appearances and work as a butler. The former uses hired thugs to enforce repayment from the debtors; the latter employs the Feds as paid muscle. 2.2 Power or influence, especially in a commercial or political sphere. （尤指商业、政治领域中的）权势，势力；影响力 many companies lack the financial muscle to adopt a more hard-nosed relationship with buyers Example sentencesExamples Public officials must provide the political muscle and resources to implement these programs. The truth is, governments and governments alone have the financial and political muscle that can deliver real change. Australia has given more than one million dollars to help the process along and it could still be asked to supply judicial muscle to the international tribunal. The government would provide money to groups of volunteers to give financial muscle to land care projects across the nation. Countries needed to put political muscle behind health improvement measures, he added. They'd just pay their better players more, and use their financial muscle to build a dominant team. These groups are easy targets because they don't have the political muscle or the money. With European animation companies supplying the creative juice and the US bringing their marketing muscle to bear, these could be profitable for all concerned. These offer the prospect of being able to mobilise grassroots lobbying muscle to influence policy makers. Behind the scenes, a bit of diplomatic muscle was brought to bear. But it is an election year and these groups are ready to flex the political muscle. His Parliamentary opponents delightedly congratulated each other on their unprecedented exhibition of constitutional muscle. This is a clear case of a multinational conglomerate using its political muscle to the disadvantage of everyone but itself. Sent this book by someone with less commercial muscle, his editors would unquestionably have demanded a thorough overhaul. Did you applaud the hauliers and farmers and gleefully hope that their muscle would bring down the cost of fuel? The history of the first group of wines has been heavily influenced, nay hampered, by the commercial muscle of protectionist Bordeaux. Consumer and other civic interest groups also put their feet in the door, though they found it much harder to exercise effective political muscle. It is a clever strategy, which has the double benefit of emphasising the Chancellor's political muscle while displaying the weakness of his rival. But he needed some financial muscle, a little fiscal clout to open a few doors for him. And the only way to do that is to use the industrial and political muscle that unions have because individuals can't make a lot of difference. Synonyms influence, power, strength, might, force, forcefulness, weight, potency informal clout, beef, pull verb ˈmʌs(ə)lˈməsəl North American informal 1with object and adverbial Move (an object) in a particular direction by using one's physical strength. 〈北美，非正式〉用力搬动（物体） they were muscling baggage into the hold of the plane 他们正用力把行李运进飞机货舱。 Example sentencesExamples It was muscling its way onto shore, hands sinking deeply into the sand. This chef is a meat man, of course, an aggressive, boisterous character used to spending long hours muscling chickens and slabs of beef over a hot open flame. He muscles the log toward the opposite bank, crouches atop a slick boulder, and steadies the log. The silver of the cuffs that bind his hands together behind his back glint as they muscle him down in the direction of the street below, where many sprawling police cars have gathered. It moves by rolling, log-style, or by lifting its head or tail, inchworm-like, and muscling itself forward. He was a young kid, and now they were going to muscle him out of there. A third-generation Marine, he lugged the same heavy pack, muscled the same kind of machine gun into his foxhole at night and took the same risks as any of the bigger men. His strength allows him to muscle shots even when he doesn't put the bat's sweet spot on the ball. The six-liter, 325-horsepower turbo diesel engine can muscle you up loose inclines and keep you in the passing lane. 1.1 Coerce by violence or by economic or political pressure. 〈非正式，主北美〉以暴力迫使；以经济（或政治）压力迫使 he was eventually muscled out of the market 他最终被逼让出了他的市场份额。 Example sentencesExamples And Labour MPs have not just muscled this off the agenda in the run-up to the General Election expected next summer only to see it reappear in the autumn. He suffered the further indignity of almost being muscled out of the party by executives who wanted to strip him of his riding nomination. I was driving to work one morning recently when a gentleman in a big Sports Utility Vehicle barreled down on me from a side street and muscled his way into the line of morning traffic. The government also seem to have muscled out the UN in the reconstruction programme. We see it every day on our way to work, a street scene replicated city-wide: white-collar execs hailing taxis on every street corner, muscling others out of the way for the comfort of air-conditioned interiors. Phrases not move a muscle Not move at all. the driver shouted in his ear, but he did not move a muscle Example sentencesExamples Gregory didn't move a muscle as this stranger approached them. She stood trembling slightly, but didn't move a muscle. I don't move a muscle, keeping my face completely unreadable. He didn't say anything and didn't move a muscle. In fact, he didn't move a muscle, though his mind was going a mile a minute. Caroline didn't move a muscle, but processed this information carefully. Her wild curls whip around her face, but she doesn't move a muscle. She didn't move a muscle, except for the slight spasm in her hand. Ricky didn't move a muscle, but inside he felt so sick. In any case, he didn't move a muscle - indeed, he appeared uncharacteristically calm - as I advanced slowly but steadily in his direction. Phrasal Verbs muscle in/into Use one's power or influence to interfere with or become involved in (another's affairs) the banks' attempts to muscle in on the insurance business Example sentencesExamples However, supermarkets have been muscling in on the market too, stocking a range of foodstuffs - importantly bringing the notion of Fairtrade to a wider audience. The superiority lasted only until the ninth minute, when Makel muscled into the script. Foreign distillers are muscling in on a bubbling domestic market The Strathclyde source also revealed his associates have been trying to muscle into the drugs trade in Edinburgh and Glasgow. Haven't the judges done enough harm already by muscling in on the political arena? That could mean new launches will find it harder to muscle into the territory without deep pockets. Now they want to make your phone ring, and are muscling into the lucrative mobile market. The nuclear energy industry is also muscling in on this one. It has muscled into this market and has grown to a reasonable size. Somehow this company muscling into our market was never going to take off. Was this Kelley's way of getting back at me for muscling in on his life? A new budget hotel chain has muscled into the market there with a somewhat spurious name. But if you were running a commercial legal practice, in addition to this heightened conservatism you'd hardly welcome qualified social workers muscling into family law practices. But even though the stamp conference was attracting greater numbers, it was the politicians who appeared to be muscling in on the stamp collectors' space. In addition, detectives were probing allegations that members of paramilitary organisations were muscling in on the industry. There was a guy that I went to college with who ran the Fair, so we kinda muscled our way in. I also thought that, as a gay man, I represented the minority of the ‘at risk’ group, and therefore I would be muscling my way in on something that should really be someone else's issue. Hedge-fund managers are now muscling in on traditional managers of pension funds and other pools of capital. But other criminal elements are muscling in on the business, including 10-year-old boys who have astounded the authorities with their audacity. I'm sure physicists don't want us muscling in on their territory. Synonyms interfere with, force one's way into, elbow one's way in on, butt in on, impose oneself on, encroach on muscle up Build up one's muscles. 〈美，非正式〉使肌肉发达 to prepare for his role, he cut his hair, muscled up, and went to boot camp Example sentencesExamples These 10 tips for triceps training will help you muscle up the back of your arms in the shortest time possible. Of particular interest: trout that muscle up rapidly on environmentally friendly, grain-based feeds, made from oats or barley, for instance. If there's one bodypart that hardgainers have extra difficulty muscling up, it's thighs. Even easygainers often have trouble muscling up this area. For the guy looking to muscle up and lean out, protein is a big part of the puzzle. They're strong, don't get me wrong, but they're not all muscled up. They're better than squats for muscling up the quads and targeting different areas, and they're safer, too. But now the players are muscling up without bulking up. Players may become bigger and stronger, and such muscling up certainly would help ‘a football linebacker or a professional wrestler or a saloon bouncer,’ he said. He finally has gotten serious about his weight problem and has trimmed down and muscled up during the offseason. With his size he does not have to muscle up to hit home runs. I'd thought beforehand that he looked far from racing fit, very fat and not muscled up at all. In my neck of the woods these sleek silver specimens, muscled up with the rich feeding of the ocean, are often called ‘greyhounds of the sea‘. Instead, the following triceps guide is designed to muscle up the back of your arms as fast as possible. Deadlifts are foremost a lower-back exercise, but they muscle up your entire backside from your glutes to your neck. The 31-year-old did play semipro football for a number of years, and he began lifting weights six years ago to muscle up. They all looked spectacular, all muscled up and filled out. Derivatives muscleless adjective The Captain put his long muscleless arm around me, and we sat together on the wall. Example sentencesExamples In addition, it was recognized that muscleless adult females had more eggs in their ovaries than muscled females. With how fat and muscleless you are, you can gain muscle and cut fat at the same time! The boy was already sprawled inside, his pants twisted up, exposing skinny, muscleless calves. Her current work now demonstrates that the tendons of muscleless limbs when grafted into the coelomic cavity undergo normal temporal and spatial patterning in the absence of muscle. Origin Late Middle English: from French, from Latin musculus, diminutive of mus 'mouse' (some muscles being thought to be mouse-like in form). The ancient Romans saw a resemblance between a flexing muscle in the upper arm and the movements of a mouse. Latin musculus, from mus ‘mouse’, meant ‘little mouse’ and also ‘muscle’. It entered English through French in the 14th century. The edible mollusc the mussel (Old English) is the same word, and the accepted spellings of both words remained variable into the 19th century. Rhymes bustle, mussel, Russell, rustle, tussle noun.1 phr. phr.v. Definition of muscle in US English: muscle nounˈməsəlˈməsəl 1A band or bundle of fibrous tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract, producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body. 肌肉，肌 Muscles are formed of bands, sheets, or columns of elongated cells (or fibers) containing interlocking parallel arrays of the proteins actin and myosin. Projections on the myosin molecules respond to chemical signals by forming and reforming chemical bonds to the actin, so that the filaments move past each other and interlock more deeply. This converts chemical energy into the mechanical force of contraction, and also generates heat the calf muscle 小腿肚上的肌肉。 the sheet of muscle between the abdomen and chest 腹胸之间的肌肉层。 Example sentencesExamples Once extracted, they can be stimulated in a laboratory to develop into any type of body cell or organ including bone, muscle and body tissue. In this condition, muscle and fibrous tissues of the renal artery wall thicken and harden into rings. The processes that bring about movement of the voluntary muscles of the body start on the surface of the brain in an area called the motor cortex. The powerful venom acts on the victim's voluntary muscles, paralysing the muscles required for body movement and breathing. And I had thought maybe I'd done something, you know, pulled a muscle or something. RSI occurs when repeated physical movements damage tendons, nerves, muscles and other soft body tissues. The pain is the result of an overload on your tibia and the connective tissues that attach your muscles to your tibia. We should explain: a tendon is basically a strong piece of tissue which connects a muscle to bone and is the extension which pulls on the bone and allows the joint to straighten or flex. Each time the calf and thigh muscles contract when walking, veins deep inside the leg are squeezed. The striated muscles innervated by cranial nerves are usually affected the most severely. On physical examination, pain is present from the tip of the medial epicondyle to the pronator teres and flexor carpi radialis muscles. A heartbeat is when the muscles of the heart contract and push blood around the body. Contraction of the circumferential muscle bundles constricts the infundibulum to a conical shape. He also leaned laterally during single leg stance, which may indicate weak gluteus medius muscles relative to his body weight. In this specimen, large lymphoid cells diffusely infiltrated muscle and fibrous tissue. The tendon is the strong, white fibrous tissues that connect muscles to bones. Make sure you get sufficient protein to protect not only your bones, but your muscles and other body tissues. A septum of connective tissue separates the circular muscle layers of the pylorus and duodenum. Energy is also needed to grow and repair the body's tissues, and to power the muscles for movement. The second group called sarcomas, arise from the substance of solid tissues such as muscle, bone, lymph glands, blood vessels and fibrous and other connective tissues. Synonyms thew 1.1 A band or bundle of tissue when well developed or prominently visible under the skin. 凸显的肌肉 showing off our muscles to prove how strong we were 展示我们的肌肉来证明我们是多么强壮。 Example sentencesExamples He wore all black clothes but she could see the ripple of his muscles beneath the fabric on his arms and chest. Both have played an awful lot of rugby in the past few seasons and right now they're concentrating on building muscle and power. Beneath his golden skin, muscles rippled as he shifted positions. Her physique is trim and strong; you can see every ripple of her well-defined muscles beneath her shiny fur. He pressed his palm against Rob's chest, felt his heart beating slowly beneath the smooth, tanned skin and taut muscles. He was at least twice my size, all muscle and brute strength. The mountain lion had a tawny coat; beneath, its muscles rippled, bunching and stretching with each step. His silken hide of blood brown hue gleamed as he moved, muscles rippling beneath the sleek pelt. He shrugged, muscles rippling beneath his bare bronzed skin. She felt the slight ripple underneath the skin, his muscles bunching and clenching in reaction to her touch. Vastly enhanced muscles rippled beneath his armour, as if threatening to burst through their restraints at any moment. She was thin, so nearly every bone protruded beneath translucent white skin and emaciated muscles. He watched the way she took up a pickaxe and swung it, saw the muscles rippling beneath her tanned skin. He stroked her neck, feeling the strong muscles beneath the skin ripple at his touch. The mastiff is powerful, heavy muscles rippling beneath its scarred pelt. Her stomach tightens, strong muscles visible beneath her skin. The muscles rippled and jerked under a sick gray skin that looked as though it had been stretched too tightly over the body. His muscles under his tan skin rippled, sending shivers up my spine. 2Physical power; strength. 体力；气力 he had muscle but no brains 他身强力壮，但头脑简单。 Example sentencesExamples Predictably, the alien blesses the boy with his powers, so the audience is not robbed of the opportunity to see some muscle, brawn and macho acts from the young star in the second half. The crafting of such language, potent with muscle and brain, lends objective shape to the act of consciousness itself. Months in the planning, it is a job that needs all the skills of a group of experienced villains, brains, muscle and connections, with no man greater than the sum of the whole. He thought Luke was all muscle and no brains. He taught that power was a must, yet it must be total power that included muscle, mind, and ki working in unison. A matter of a difference in opinion should not be settled with muscle rather than the brain. We've power of muscle and brain, and where else is that combination useful? Asha thought of him as a dumb jockey with no brains but plenty of muscle. The Wolves also could use some muscle at power forward, which would give Garnett and Smith some help up front and take the pressure off the perimeter shooters. But we've got to fight with our muscle and our brain, and do it in a smart way. At power forward, Portland can go with Wallace or Brian Grant, depending on whether you want star power or muscle and hustle. But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn. He was the executive producer of the unit and its brains and muscle, too. He trained in the UK as a chef, but because of his dyslexia the jobs he can get use his muscle not his brain and he cannot get a driving licence - he can't take the written test. Nesterenko is tall and strong, though, and started mobilising that muscle at just the right time. Synonyms strength, power, muscularity, brawn, brawniness, burliness, huskiness 2.1informal A person or people exhibiting physical power or strength. 〈非正式〉身强力壮的男子（们），孔武有力的人（们） an ex-marine of enormous proportions who'd been brought along as muscle 一个被当作大力士带来的腰圆膀粗的前海军陆战队员。 Example sentencesExamples By this time both sides had brought some professional muscle to bear on proceedings. I really hope he cuts a deal and brings in the hired muscle. If the Sopranos ever need some muscle they should drop by the Flamingo. The former uses hired thugs to enforce repayment from the debtors; the latter employs the Feds as paid muscle. Louis was the sort of low-grade man child that shoestring celebrities often employ as muscle to keep up appearances and work as a butler. 2.2 Power or influence, especially in a commercial or political context. （尤指商业、政治领域中的）权势，势力；影响力 he had enough muscle and resources to hold his position on the council 他有足够的影响力和智谋在市政会中任职。 Example sentencesExamples Consumer and other civic interest groups also put their feet in the door, though they found it much harder to exercise effective political muscle. They'd just pay their better players more, and use their financial muscle to build a dominant team. It is a clever strategy, which has the double benefit of emphasising the Chancellor's political muscle while displaying the weakness of his rival. Public officials must provide the political muscle and resources to implement these programs. Australia has given more than one million dollars to help the process along and it could still be asked to supply judicial muscle to the international tribunal. With European animation companies supplying the creative juice and the US bringing their marketing muscle to bear, these could be profitable for all concerned. These offer the prospect of being able to mobilise grassroots lobbying muscle to influence policy makers. And the only way to do that is to use the industrial and political muscle that unions have because individuals can't make a lot of difference. Sent this book by someone with less commercial muscle, his editors would unquestionably have demanded a thorough overhaul. Did you applaud the hauliers and farmers and gleefully hope that their muscle would bring down the cost of fuel? His Parliamentary opponents delightedly congratulated each other on their unprecedented exhibition of constitutional muscle. But he needed some financial muscle, a little fiscal clout to open a few doors for him. These groups are easy targets because they don't have the political muscle or the money. This is a clear case of a multinational conglomerate using its political muscle to the disadvantage of everyone but itself. The truth is, governments and governments alone have the financial and political muscle that can deliver real change. The government would provide money to groups of volunteers to give financial muscle to land care projects across the nation. Countries needed to put political muscle behind health improvement measures, he added. But it is an election year and these groups are ready to flex the political muscle. The history of the first group of wines has been heavily influenced, nay hampered, by the commercial muscle of protectionist Bordeaux. Behind the scenes, a bit of diplomatic muscle was brought to bear. Synonyms influence, power, strength, might, force, forcefulness, weight, potency verbˈməsəlˈməsəl North American informal 1with object and adverbial Move (an object) in a particular direction by using one's physical strength. 〈北美，非正式〉用力搬动（物体） they were muscling baggage into the hold of the plane 他们正用力把行李运进飞机货舱。 Example sentencesExamples This chef is a meat man, of course, an aggressive, boisterous character used to spending long hours muscling chickens and slabs of beef over a hot open flame. A third-generation Marine, he lugged the same heavy pack, muscled the same kind of machine gun into his foxhole at night and took the same risks as any of the bigger men. He muscles the log toward the opposite bank, crouches atop a slick boulder, and steadies the log. The silver of the cuffs that bind his hands together behind his back glint as they muscle him down in the direction of the street below, where many sprawling police cars have gathered. The six-liter, 325-horsepower turbo diesel engine can muscle you up loose inclines and keep you in the passing lane. His strength allows him to muscle shots even when he doesn't put the bat's sweet spot on the ball. It moves by rolling, log-style, or by lifting its head or tail, inchworm-like, and muscling itself forward. He was a young kid, and now they were going to muscle him out of there. It was muscling its way onto shore, hands sinking deeply into the sand. 1.1 Coerce by violence or by economic or political pressure. 〈非正式，主北美〉以暴力迫使；以经济（或政治）压力迫使 he was eventually muscled out of business 他最终被逼让出了他的市场份额。 Example sentencesExamples He suffered the further indignity of almost being muscled out of the party by executives who wanted to strip him of his riding nomination. And Labour MPs have not just muscled this off the agenda in the run-up to the General Election expected next summer only to see it reappear in the autumn. I was driving to work one morning recently when a gentleman in a big Sports Utility Vehicle barreled down on me from a side street and muscled his way into the line of morning traffic. We see it every day on our way to work, a street scene replicated city-wide: white-collar execs hailing taxis on every street corner, muscling others out of the way for the comfort of air-conditioned interiors. The government also seem to have muscled out the UN in the reconstruction programme. Phrases flex one's muscles 〈美，非正式〉使肌肉发达 Give a show of strength or power. 显示实力 Example sentencesExamples Now that Labour is safely back in power, the public sector unions have already started to flex their muscles. Now they are flexing their muscles, increasingly conscious of their strength and ever more radical in their demands. They routinely flexed their muscles in the form of politically-motivated strikes, most significantly in the early 1970s when they helped bring down Edward Heath's Conservative government. So at some stage you have to lay down the law and your kids will see it as you flexing your muscles and being unkind to them but in reality you are just teaching them for the future or protecting them. But the US regulators are also flexing their muscles and seeking to impose their standards on other markets around the world. Committees are also flexing their muscles in ways ministers are struggling to predict. Superpowers flexed their muscles figuratively in the space race and literally at the Olympics. And who can forget the imperial powers flexing their muscles - Mussolini's Italy invading Ethiopia, Hitler's Germany making its territorial advances in Europe. History often provides an opportunity for political outfits to flex their muscles and resort to a show of pomp to impress a wavering rank and file. The so-called ‘dwarfs’ of the EU flexed their muscles at the Athens summit yesterday and insisted their opposition to a permanent and single EU president must be heeded. not move a muscle Be completely motionless. 一动不动，纹丝不动 Example sentencesExamples In fact, he didn't move a muscle, though his mind was going a mile a minute. She didn't move a muscle, except for the slight spasm in her hand. Gregory didn't move a muscle as this stranger approached them. Ricky didn't move a muscle, but inside he felt so sick. Her wild curls whip around her face, but she doesn't move a muscle. Caroline didn't move a muscle, but processed this information carefully. I don't move a muscle, keeping my face completely unreadable. He didn't say anything and didn't move a muscle. She stood trembling slightly, but didn't move a muscle. In any case, he didn't move a muscle - indeed, he appeared uncharacteristically calm - as I advanced slowly but steadily in his direction. Phrasal Verbs muscle in/into Force one's way into (something), typically in order to gain an advantage. 〈非正式〉（为获取利益而）强行挤入（或插手） muscling his way into meetings and important conferences he was determined to muscle in on the union's affairs 他决意强行插手工会事务。 Example sentencesExamples Was this Kelley's way of getting back at me for muscling in on his life? A new budget hotel chain has muscled into the market there with a somewhat spurious name. That could mean new launches will find it harder to muscle into the territory without deep pockets. But if you were running a commercial legal practice, in addition to this heightened conservatism you'd hardly welcome qualified social workers muscling into family law practices. But other criminal elements are muscling in on the business, including 10-year-old boys who have astounded the authorities with their audacity. Foreign distillers are muscling in on a bubbling domestic market I'm sure physicists don't want us muscling in on their territory. Haven't the judges done enough harm already by muscling in on the political arena? I also thought that, as a gay man, I represented the minority of the ‘at risk’ group, and therefore I would be muscling my way in on something that should really be someone else's issue. Now they want to make your phone ring, and are muscling into the lucrative mobile market. But even though the stamp conference was attracting greater numbers, it was the politicians who appeared to be muscling in on the stamp collectors' space. Hedge-fund managers are now muscling in on traditional managers of pension funds and other pools of capital. The Strathclyde source also revealed his associates have been trying to muscle into the drugs trade in Edinburgh and Glasgow. However, supermarkets have been muscling in on the market too, stocking a range of foodstuffs - importantly bringing the notion of Fairtrade to a wider audience. The superiority lasted only until the ninth minute, when Makel muscled into the script. It has muscled into this market and has grown to a reasonable size. Somehow this company muscling into our market was never going to take off. In addition, detectives were probing allegations that members of paramilitary organisations were muscling in on the industry. The nuclear energy industry is also muscling in on this one. There was a guy that I went to college with who ran the Fair, so we kinda muscled our way in. Synonyms interfere with, force one's way into, elbow one's way in on, butt in on, impose oneself on, encroach on muscle up Build up one's muscles. 〈美，非正式〉使肌肉发达 Example sentencesExamples Of particular interest: trout that muscle up rapidly on environmentally friendly, grain-based feeds, made from oats or barley, for instance. These 10 tips for triceps training will help you muscle up the back of your arms in the shortest time possible. Even easygainers often have trouble muscling up this area. For the guy looking to muscle up and lean out, protein is a big part of the puzzle. In my neck of the woods these sleek silver specimens, muscled up with the rich feeding of the ocean, are often called ‘greyhounds of the sea‘. Deadlifts are foremost a lower-back exercise, but they muscle up your entire backside from your glutes to your neck. The 31-year-old did play semipro football for a number of years, and he began lifting weights six years ago to muscle up. He finally has gotten serious about his weight problem and has trimmed down and muscled up during the offseason. I'd thought beforehand that he looked far from racing fit, very fat and not muscled up at all. With his size he does not have to muscle up to hit home runs. Players may become bigger and stronger, and such muscling up certainly would help ‘a football linebacker or a professional wrestler or a saloon bouncer,’ he said. If there's one bodypart that hardgainers have extra difficulty muscling up, it's thighs. They're better than squats for muscling up the quads and targeting different areas, and they're safer, too. They all looked spectacular, all muscled up and filled out. Instead, the following triceps guide is designed to muscle up the back of your arms as fast as possible. They're strong, don't get me wrong, but they're not all muscled up. But now the players are muscling up without bulking up. Origin Late Middle English: from French, from Latin musculus, diminutive of mus ‘mouse’ (some muscles being thought to be mouse-like in form). noun.1 phr. phr.v.
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