0 the organ in your chest that sends the blood around your body -- 心臟
1 used to refer to a person's character, or the place within a person where feelings or emotions are considered to come from -- 性情；內心；心腸
His heart leaped (= he suddenly felt very excited and happy) when the phone rang. 電話鈴響了，他的心興奮得怦怦直跳。
old-fashioned It does my heart good (= makes me very happy) to see those children so happy. 看到那些孩子如此快樂，我很開心。
They say he died of a broken heart (= because he was so sad). 他們說他死於憂傷過度。
It breaks my heart (= makes me feel very sad) to see him so unhappy. 看見他如此不高興，我心裡十分難過。
He broke her heart (= made her very sad) when he left her for another woman. 他爲了另一個女人離開了她，這讓她的心都碎了。
Homelessness is a subject very close/dear to her heart (= is very important to her and she has strong feelings about it). 她非常關心無家可歸者的問題。
He said he'd never marry but he had a change of heart (= his feelings changed) when he met her. 他說永遠都不結婚，可是碰到她後他就改變了主意。
I love you with all my heart (= very much). 我深愛著你。
I love you, and I mean it from the bottom of my heart (= very sincerely). 我愛你，我的愛是發自內心的。
2 the central or most important part -- 中心，中央；重點，要點
the heart of a lettuce 生菜心
artichoke hearts 洋薊心
Let's get to the heart of the matter. 讓我們考慮一下最關鍵的事情。
A disagreement about boundaries is at the heart of the dispute. 爭議的焦點就是邊界問題。
The demonstrators will march through the heart of the capital. 示威者將遊行穿過首都的中心地區。
3 courage, determination, or hope -- 勇氣；決心；希望
4 a shape, consisting of two half circles next to each other at the top and a V shape at the bottom, often coloured pink or red and used to represent love -- （用來表示愛情的）心形
5 one of the four suits in playing cards, represented by a red heart shape -- （紙牌）紅心
Patients with ischemic heart disease showed a significantly lower rate of improvement.
All 5 of the patients in our series had serious structural heart disease.
The problem of articulating and documenting intentions lies at the heart of creative research.
The heart rate acceleration is calculated by differentiating the smoothed heart rate signal.
Lack of both accuracy and precision becomes more problematic in malformed hearts when cardiac structures are hypoplastic.
Commissioning services for the treatment and prevention of coronary heart disease.
All of these lesions, nonetheless, can be found rarely in hearts with otherwise standard complete transposition.
The heart of the voicing source is a pulse generator (on the right side of the architecture shown in figure 3).
