flab

noun

1. （人体）松弛的肌肉
   soft, loose flesh on a person's body

1. N-UNCOUNT 松弛的肌肉，赘肉(尤用于挑剔某人时)
   If you say that someone has flab, you mean they have loose flesh on their body because they are rather fat, especially when you are being critical of them.
   1. Don had a hefty roll of flab overhanging his waistband.
      唐的腰间沉甸甸地坠着一圈赘肉。

1. Don had a hefty roll of flab overhanging his waistband.
   唐的腰间沉甸甸地坠着一圈赘肉。
2. In the wake of these splits, big oil companies will be looking at their assets to trim extra flab.
   在这两家公司成功完成业务拆分之后，大型石油公司也纷纷效仿，对公司的资产进行“瘦身”。
3. According to ministers, giving people incentives to fight the flab will help avoid larger costs associated with treating cancer, heart disease and diabetes caused by obesity.
   大臣们说，给与肥胖做斗争的人们以物质刺激，有助于避免由于肥胖造成的癌症，心脏病以及糖尿病的威胁所带来的更大的花费。
4. A U.S. study of nearly 16,000 patients with coronary heart disease found that a layer of flab around the stomach can be as dangerous as smoking a packet of cigarettes a day or having very high cholesterol.
   美国的一份健康报告对将近16000名冠心病患者进行了研究，结果发现肚子周围一圈松松垮垮的赘肉的对健康造成的危害相当于每天吸食一包烟或者有非常高的胆固醇水平。
5. And fiber fights fat: people who eat more fiber have less flab.
   纤维可对抗脂肪，而且食用含纤维的食物越多的人，肌肉松弛现象更少。
6. More ambitious is the plan to replace some of this sagging flab with rippling muscle.
   更大胆的是那项用隆起的肌肉替换下垂赘肉的计划。
7. We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty or, in the case of one inspector general I knew, put some unsightly flab around the hips.
   我们可能失去包括我们的天赋、人性、爱和诚实的斤两，或者对我认识的一位督察而言，是在屁股上长一圈难看的赘肉。
8. Meanwhile, food-portion inflation has also made it harder to fight the flab.
   同时，“食物膨胀”也让减肥变得更难了。
9. But they aren't the only ones waging a constant fight against the flab.
   然而，她们并不是这场“减肥持久战”的唯一“战士”。
10. Researchers found that a particular variant in a gene linked to fat metabolism may help fight flab around the middle.
    科学家发现，一种与脂肪代谢有关的基因特殊变体能够帮助人们对抗中年发福的现象。
11. When he stopped working out, his six-pack stomach turned to flab.
    一停止健身，他那六块腹肌就松弛了。
12. He calls them love handles. I call them flab.
    他称之为肌肉，我称为贱肉。
13. Instead, it is time for everybody to tighten belts ( literally) and fight all sorts of inflationary flab.
    实际上，现在是每个人勒紧腰带（照字面讲）与各种形式的通货膨胀做斗争的时候了。
14. Women urged to shed flab to cut cancer risk.
    专家呼吁妇女减少体重以降低罹患癌症危险。
15. However, the industry in Asia is carrying less flab than in Europe, according to a recent study by Oliver Wyman and Morgan Stanley.
    然而，奥纬咨询和摩根士丹利近日的一份报告显示，亚洲投行业不像欧洲同行带有那么多的“赘肉”。
16. Blame evolution, and the fact that for the vast majority of human history, famine was a bigger threat than flab.
    现在你可以将其怪罪于人类的进化。回顾人类历史，绝大部分时间，饥饿对人造成的威胁都要超过肥胖。
17. A.it's not the weight that bothers me. it's the flab.
    我烦恼的不是体重，而是松弛的肌肉。
18. Research on other medical methods to fight the flab continues.
    其他抵抗肥肉的医疗手段的研究还在继续。
19. Women in their late twenties shed flab faster because they have more time and willpower than those of other ages, according to a survey.
    据一项调查得出的结果，女星在20多快30的阶段，具有比其他年龄层更多的时间与更坚定的毅力使自己瘦下来。
20. Objective: To clone Helicobacter pylori ( H.pylori) flaB into plasmid and analyze gene sequence, and to lay foundation for Hp vaccine.
    目的：将幽门螺杆菌（Helicobacter，pylort，Hp）鞭毛蛋白B亚单位基因（flaB）克隆到质粒载体pNEB193上，并进行序列分析，为Hp疫苗的构建奠定基础。
21. Conclusion flaB-PCR combined with Dot blotting of flaB probe labeled with DIG seemed a high sensitive, specific and rapid technique both in early diagnosis of leptospirosis and in epidemiological investigation of Leptospira.
    结论PCR-斑点杂交是一种灵敏、特异、快速的钩端螺旋体检测方法，既可用于快速检测和早期诊断，也可用于疫情监测和流行病学调查。
22. Objective: To clone Helicobacter pylori flagellin B gene ( flaB), to construct prokaryotic expression system of the gene and to identify immunity of the fusion protein.
    目的：克隆幽门螺杆菌（Hp）鞭毛素B基因（flaB），构建其原核表达系统，鉴定融合蛋白免疫性。
23. Calculation Method on the Ultimate Shearing Capability of Flab Beam-column Joints with Steel Fiber Concrete
    钢纤维钢筋混凝土扁梁柱节点极限抗剪承载力的计算方法
24. An experimental research of steel fiber unbonded prestressed flab beam-column connections
    配筋钢纤维混凝土无粘结部分预应力扁梁柱节点的试验研究
25. The genome DNA of Bacillus cereus A-47 was extracted as the templet, and primers were designed according to the homologous genes of flagellins. Two genes of flagellins named fla/ K and flaB were acquired by PCR.
    由鞭毛蛋白基因的同源序列设计引物，以蜡样芽孢杆菌A-47的基因组DNA为摸板，扩增获得了两个鞭毛蛋白基因，分别命名为flaA和flaB；
26. Examination of FlaA and FlaB in the fliD mutation strain illustrated that both filament subunits are under the control of feedback regulation.
    在对fliD突变体中的FlaA和FlaB的检测时，我们发现这两个鞭毛丝亚基都是被反馈调节控制的。

noun

1. loose or flaccid body fat