- 1內臟;腸子。偏書面,口語多說內臟或腸子。
Entrails are the soft inside parts of a body, especially the long tubes that food moves through — the guts. People use it of animals more than of people, and often when a body is cut open: a hunter, a cook cleaning a fish, or a bloody story. It is a slightly old, word; in a Taiwan kitchen you would more naturally name the part (liver, ) or just say 內臟. It is almost always plural. Though actually older stories talk of “reading the entrails” — guessing the future from an animal’s insides — so the word can feel dark and ceremonial, not only like cooking. You would not use it at a polite dinner to talk about food.
組成From Middle English entraille, entrailles, from Old French entrailles, from Latin words built on inter “inside / between.” You cannot split the English word into pieces that still mean those things on their own.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
entrailsnoun/ˈɛn.tɹeɪlz/
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archaicplural of entrail
- Elizabethan audiences relished shocks and surprises as much as they did trumpets, thunder and savage realism in bloody scenes of torture and death which were made all the more horrible by the use of animals’ entrails.
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archaicobsoleteplural of entrail
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