brawn /ˈbrɔn/
 筋肉,膂力,腕力,醃肉


 Brawn n.
 1. A muscle; flesh. [Obs.]
    Formed well of brawns and of bones.   --Chaucer.
 2. Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
    Brawn without brains is thine.   --Dryden.
    It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand.   --E. Hall.
    And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn.   --Shak.
 3. The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar.
    The best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn.   --Mortimer.
 4. A boar. [Obs.]

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 brawn
      n : muscular strength [syn: muscle, sinew]