喜樂美語

核心畫面

The soft slippery insides of a belly — the stomach and the long tubes packed inside an animal or a person. From this one picture everything else grows: the insides you can physically pull out, the deep place in your belly where strong feelings sit, and by extension the 'insides' of any machine or any plan.

可以想成一隻動物或人肚子裡那團濕滑的內臟——胃，加上一圈一圈盤在裡面的長管子。整個字都從這個畫面長出來：可以實際掏出…更多收起可以想成一隻動物或人肚子裡那團濕滑的內臟——胃，加上一圈一圈盤在裡面的長管子。整個字都從這個畫面長出來：可以實際掏出來的那團「裡面的東西」，肚子深處那個生出強烈感覺的地方，再延伸到任何機器、任何計畫的「內部」。

原始詞典資料14 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。

Gutname

  • 1

    A surname from German.

gutnoun/ɡʌt/

  • 1

    The alimentary canal, especially the intestine.

  • 2

    informalThe abdomen of a person, especially one that is enlarged.

    • You've developed quite a beer gut since I last met you.
  • 3

    The intestines of an animal used to make strings of a tennis racket or violin, etc.

  • 4

    A person's emotional, visceral self.

    • I have a funny feeling in my gut.
  • 5

    informalA class that is not demanding or challenging.

    • You should take Intro Astronomy: it's a gut.
  • 6

    A narrow passage of water.

    • the Gut of Canso
    • There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.
  • 7

    The sac of silk taken from a silkworm when ready to spin its cocoon, for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. When dry, it is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fishing line.

gutverb/ɡʌt/

  • 1

    To eviscerate.

    • Holonym: field dress
    • The fisherman guts the fish before cooking them.
  • 2

    To remove or destroy the most important parts of.

    • Fire gutted the building.
    • Congress gutted the welfare bill.
  • 3

    To dishearten; to crush (the spirits of).

    • They were gutted by the court's decision.
    • It's no worse than what he said in Miami, but hearing him repeat it, attribute it to my father...it guts me. “That's who your family is. Who you are. Stangers—Stanleys, whatever your fucking names are,” he spits.

gutadj/ɡʌt/

  • 1

    Made of gut.

    • a violin with gut strings
  • 2

    Instinctive.

    • gut reaction

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。