mid-15c., from jaw (n.) + bone (n.). Hence jawboning "lecturing, hectoring," a term associated with the U.S. Lyndon Johnson presidential administration (1966); compare jaw (v.).
双语例句
1. The hardest bone in the human body is the jawbone.
人体最硬的骨头是下颚骨(颔骨)?
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2. Having teeth attached to the edge of the jawbone without sockets.
长有颌缘牙的、端生齿的动物.
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3. Stop looking at the jawbone as your finish line.
当你到终线时就停止看颌骨.
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4. When he finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone; and the place was called Ramath Lehi.
17说完这话 、 就把那 腮 骨从手里抛出去了.那地便叫拉末利希.
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5. But as our brains grew our jawbone structure changed, leaving us expensively overcrowded mouths.