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Your bowels are the long tubes inside your body that food passes through after your stomach - basically your . Doctors talk about "bowel movements" (going to the toilet) and "bowel problems" ( issues). The word is also used, in an old-fashioned or poetic way, for the deepest inside part of something big - like "the bowels of the earth" (deep underground) or "the bowels of a ship" (deep inside it).
腸道、腸子;(書面/比喻)…的深處,如「the bowels of the earth」(地底深處)。
組成Likely comes from Old French "boel", from Latin "botellus", originally meaning "little sausage" - because of the shape.
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。
bowelsnoun/ˈbaʊ.əlz/
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The deepest or innermost part.
- down in the bowels of the Earth
- O momentary grace of mortal men, / Which we more hunt for than the grace of God! / Who builds his hopes in air of your good looks, / Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, / Ready, with every nod, to tumble down / Into the fatal bowels of the deep.
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The concept or quality that defines something at its very core.
- the project’s bowels
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The intestines.
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Compassion, sympathy.
- Therefore in fierce tempest is he coming, / In thunder and in earthquake, like a Jove, / That, if requiring fail, he will compel; / And bids you, in the bowels of the Lord, / Deliver up the crown, and to take mercy / On the poor souls for whom this hungry war / Opens his vasty jaws
- If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
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obsoleteThe body as the source of offspring.
- And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it?
- 1751, Thomas Skinner, “A Sermon preach’d at the Ma’nor of Peace, in the County of Hampshire, on May the 9th, 1751” in Alfred Baylies Page, Reverend Grindall Rawson and his Ministry, 1907, p. 9, Had you been their natural Parents, and they the Children of your own Bowels, Methinks, you could not have Contributed much more Bountifully to their Assistance […]
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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。