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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.
Entrails are the soft inside parts of a body, especially the long tubes that food moves through — the gutsentrails指身體裡軟軟的內部器官,尤其是食物會經過的那些長管子,也就是腸子內臟 People use it of animals more than of people, and often when a body is cut open這個字用在動物身上比用在人身上多,而且常常是在講身體被剖開的時候 a hunter, a cook cleaning a fish, or a bloody story像是獵人、清理魚的廚師,或是血腥的故事情節
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.
It is a slightly old, bookish word; in a Taiwan kitchen you would more naturally name the part (liver, intestine) or just say 內臟這是個有點老、書面的字;在台灣廚房裡你更自然的講法是直接講部位(肝、腸),或就說內臟 It is almost always plural這個字幾乎都是用複數形
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.
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不過其實比較舊的故事會講『reading the entrails』,也就是從動物內臟猜未來,所以這個字有時候讓人感覺陰暗、帶點儀式感,不只是像在講煮飯 You would not use it at a polite dinner to talk about food在有禮貌的餐桌上聊食物時,你不會用這個字
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,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。
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
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。