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The bowel is the long tube inside your body that food passes through after your stomach, where your body takes out what it needs and gets rid of the rest — doctors also call it the . People usually say 'bowels' (with an s) when talking about it in everyday or slightly formal ways, like 'bowel movement', which is a polite way to talk about going to the toilet.
腸、腸道
組成可能源自拉丁文 botellus，原意是「小香腸」，因為腸子的形狀而得名。
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。
bowelnoun/ˈbaʊ.əl/
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medicinesciencesA part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
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The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
- And when he was hanged, brast asondre in the myddes, and all his bowels gusshed out.
- Leaue words & let them feele your lances pointes, UUhich glided through the bowels of the Greekes.
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The (deep) interior of something.
- The treasures were stored in the bowels of the ship.
- His soldiers […] cried out amain, / And rushed into the bowels of the battle.
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archaicThe seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
- Thou thing of no bowels, thou!
- Bloody Bonner, that corpulent tyrant, full (as one said) of guts, and empty of bowels.
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obsoleteoffspring
- Friend hast thou none, / For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,
bowelverb/ˈbaʊ.əl/
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archaicTo disembowel.
- Their bodies are first bowelled, then dried upon hurdles till they be very dry [...].
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。