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Bile is a bitter, yellow-green liquid made by the liver that helps the body digest fat. The word is also used figuratively for bitter anger or harsh, nasty words — 'he spat out bile' means he said something very hostile and angry.
膽汁；(比喻)怨氣/尖酸刻薄的話
同家族的字
- biliousthe adjective form, meaning sick from too much bile, or bad-tempered
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Bilename
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A Bantu language spoken in Nigeria.
bilenoun詞源 1/baɪl/
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A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.
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Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
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Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.
- I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.
- He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head.
bilenoun詞源 2/baɪl/
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obsoleteA boil (kind of swelling).
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。