喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture the bag inside you where food lands and starts to break down. Everything else grows out of that one organ. English treats the stomach as the part of you that reacts first to anything hard to take — nasty sights, tasks — so "can your stomach handle it?" becomes a way of asking whether you can bear something at all.

可以想成：身體裡那個接住食物、開始把它分解的袋子。其他所有用法都從這一個器官長出來。英文把胃當成「最先有反應的那個部…更多收起可以想成：身體裡那個接住食物、開始把它分解的袋子。其他所有用法都從這一個器官長出來。英文把胃當成「最先有反應的那個部位」——看到噁心的畫面、面對讓人發怵的事，胃都先翻攪一下。於是「你的胃受不受得了」就成了問「你承不承受得住」的說法，動詞的用法正是從這裡來的。

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胃當成承受力的量尺

胃是最先對噁心和恐懼起反應的地方，所以英文拿它來衡量一個人受得了多少。

turn your stomach · noun · A2

If something 'turns your stomach', it makes you feel sick or very upset.

令人反胃

Also in this word

stomach (organ) · noun · A2

The organ inside your body where food goes after you eat and starts to be broken down.

胃

belly · noun · A2

The front part of your body between your chest and your legs; your belly area.

肚子／腹部

原始詞典資料10 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。

stomachnoun/ˈstʌmək/

  • 1

    An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.

    • Our stomachs and livers have an enzyme known as alcohol dehydrogenase that breaks down ethanol to make it less toxic for our bodies, said Atlanta gastroenterologist Dr. Preston Stewart.
    • A new study suggests people taking popular injected medications for weight loss, including Wegovy, Ozempic, Saxenda and Victoza, may be at higher risk for serious digestive problems such as stomach paralysis, pancreatitis, and bowel obstructions, compared with those taking other types of weight loss medications.
  • 2

    informalThe belly.

    • Why did you hit me in the stomach?
  • 3

    obsoletePride, haughtiness.

    • Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […]
    • He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;
  • 4

    obsoleteAn appetite.

    • a good stomach for roast beef
    • You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.
  • 5

    A desire, an appetite (for something abstract).

    • I have no stomach for a fight today.
    • That he which hath no ſtomack to this fight, / Let him depart, his Paſport ſhall be made,
  • 6

    The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.

    • […] Mr. Sedley looking grand, with a crush opera-hat on one side of his head and his hand in the stomach of a voluminous white waistcoat.

stomachverb/ˈstʌmək/

  • 1

    To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

    • I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
    • I can't stomach her cooking.
  • 2

    obsoleteTo be angry.

    • Let a man, though never so justly, oppose himself unto them that are disordered in their ways; and what one amongst them commonly doth not stomach at such contradiction, storm at reproof, and hate such as would reform them?
  • 3

    obsoleteTo resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

    • O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
    • The Lion began at first to shew his Teeth, and to Stomach the Affront.
  • 4

    obsoleteTo turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.

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。