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To disembowel a person or an animal is to cut them open and take out the bowels — the long tubes in the belly. It is a violent, very physical verb. In history it names a kind of killing or punishment; in hunting, older writing uses it for taking the guts out of an animal, though cooks today more often say gut or clean. You will meet it in history books, crime stories, and horror, not in polite small talk. Though actually, a few writers stretch it for a review or an attack that rips the insides out of an argument, but that use is colourful and not the first meaning. The word is never gentle. If you only need “hurt badly,” this is far too much.
開膛破肚;把腸子取出來
組成From dis- + embowel. dis- here is the “away / undo” prefix; embowel is built on bowel, the guts inside the body.
同家族的字
- bowelthe gut; this verb is about taking those guts out
原始詞典資料2 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。
disembowelverb[dɪsɪmˈbaʊ(ə)ɫ]
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To take or let out the bowels or interior parts of; to eviscerate.
- `Yea. The people of Kôr ever embalmed their dead, as did the Egyptians, but their art was greater than the art of the Egyptians, for, whereas the Egyptians disembowelled and drew the brain, the people of Kôr injected fluid into the veins, and thus reached every part.'
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To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider.
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。