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单词 gut
释义
gut
(gʌt )
Word forms: guts , gutting , gutted
1. plural noun
A person's or animal's guts are all the organs inside them.
By the time they finish, the crew are standing ankle-deep in fish guts.
2. verb
When someone guts a dead animal or fish, they prepare it for cooking by removing all the organs from inside it.
It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: disembowel, draw, dress, clean  
3. singular noun
The gut is the tube inside the body of a person or animal through which food passes while it is being digested.
4. uncountable noun B2
Guts is the will and courage to do something which is difficult or unpleasant, or which might have unpleasant results. [informal]
The new Chancellor has the guts to push through unpopular tax increases.
It takes more guts than I've usually got to go and see him.
5. singular noun [usually NOUN noun]
A gut feeling is based on instinct or emotion rather than reason.
Let's have your gut reaction to the facts as we know them.
6. countable noun [usually singular]
You can refer to someone's stomach as their gut, especially when it is very large and sticks out. [informal]
His gut sagged out over his belt.
Synonyms: paunch [informal], belly, spare tyre [British, slang], potbelly  
7.  See also beer gut
8. plural noun [NOUN of noun]
The guts of something, for example a subject or a machine, are the key elements of it, which make it work. [informal]
She has a reputation for getting at the guts of a subject and never pulling her punches.
The guts of the reactor have to be hauled out of the pressure vessel.
9. verb
To gut a building means to destroy the inside of it so that only its outside walls remain.
Over the weekend, a firebomb gutted a building where 60 people lived. [VERB noun]
A factory stands gutted and deserted. [VERB-ed]
10. uncountable noun
Gut is string made from part of the stomach of an animal. Traditionally, it is used to make the strings of sports rackets or musical instruments such as violins.
11.  See also gutted
12. to bust a gut phrase [VERB inflects]
To bust a gut means to work very hard trying to achieve something. [informal]
Every player is busting a gut to impress.
13. to hate someone's guts phrase
If you hate someone's guts, you dislike them very much indeed. [informal, emphasis]
We hate each other's guts.
14. spill your guts phrase [VERB inflects]
If someone spills their guts, they tell you everything about something secret or private. [informal]
People call in and just spill their guts about whatever's bothering them on the job or in a relationship.
15. work your guts out phrase
If you say that you are working your guts out or slogging your guts out, you are emphasizing that you are working as hard as you can. [informal, emphasis]
Most have worked their guts out and made sacrifices.
Idioms:
bust a gut [informal]
to work very hard at something
I was busting a gut doing horrible jobs – toilet cleaning among other things – to support us.
Collocations:
gut a building
To gut the building of its treasures of pre- and postwar design would have been criminal.
Times, Sunday Times
Wood had intended to carry out the work, and gutted the building, but the project never got under way.
Times, Sunday Times
Do you gut the buildings and restore them as close as possible to their original state, or do you to try to preserve all the barnacles of history?
Times, Sunday Times
A fire gutted the building in 1931, rendering it unusable for a number of years.
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In 1989, the state offered a $350,000 matching grant for renovation, but a spring 1991 fire gutted the building before it was spent.
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gut a house
She gutted the house, revealing 'a huge space: 1,400 sq ft, with 30ft high ceilings'.
Times, Sunday Times
A fire in 1844 gutted the house, which was rebuilt within its shell of brown sandstone with limestone quoins.
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A disastrous fire gutted the house in 1983.
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Residents were prevented from returning home and gutting their houses for weeks by local government officials, until basic infrastructure for water and electricity were restored to the city.
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gut lining
We avoid grains, which can agitate the gut lining in some people; dairy, because it can be difficult to digest; and all sugars.
Times, Sunday Times
The enzymes break down large, awkward molecules into small pieces that can be absorbed by the gut lining and by bacteria, both of which regard them as food.
Christianity Today
The gut lining passes the food to underlying blood vessels, from which it travels to the liver for processing and then on to the rest of the body.
Christianity Today
A gene very similar to one from baculovirus, for example, enables the bacterium to penetrate the insect gut lining.
The Scientist
It can be caused by too much growth of bacteria in the small intestine, reduced immunity of the host, or increased gut lining permeability.
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gut microbes
What’s more, many gut microbes harvest these sugars by plucking them off the intestinal lining.
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Gut microbes do this by producing hormones that stimulate our body and brain.
Times,Sunday Times
Receiving antibiotics early in life could alter gut microbes, scientists said, which may affect metabolism.
Times, Sunday Times
We rapidly gain our gut microbes at birth: we need them to develop a normal brain and immune system, as well as to digest food and make vitamins.
Times, Sunday Times
What's the big deal with gut microbes?
Times, Sunday Times
gut punch
And then came the gut punch for the hosts.
The Sun
It was a gut punch for the judiciary.
Times, Sunday Times
You'll never forget the first time you hear the rumble of the approaching bike, followed by the gut punch as it blurs past you and screams up the road.
The Sun
It packs the power of a gut punch on screen.
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gut strings
The transparency of sound from gut strings means the woodwind and brass soloists emerge as if naturally from the orchestral texture.
Times, Sunday Times
But no 'authentic' period instruments or gut strings, and you couldn't help noticing the blander tone generated by the modern equipment and techniques.
Times, Sunday Times
Gut strings are used to create authentic performances of music written before the 20th century.
Times, Sunday Times
It was a time, we were told, when metal coverings for gut strings were coming in, so they duly included a representative (small) percentage.
Times, Sunday Times
On gut strings and with minimum vibrato she produced a sinuous, even raw sound, yet projected perfectly the overarching architecture and myriad moods.
Times, Sunday Times
leaky gut
However, until now leaky gut syndrome has been written off as a way for alternative-health practitioners to sell supplements that supposedly 'cure' it.
Times, Sunday Times
Are modern lifestyle choices to blame for an increase in leaky gut?
Times, Sunday Times
Here the reporter was told that she had excess yeast in her intestines which could lead to a complaint called 'leaky gut syndrome'.
Times, Sunday Times
Improved digestion also helps to avert 'leaky gut', where potentially allergenic proteins seep through its lining into the bloodstream.
The Sun
With such a wide-ranging list of possible symptoms, diagnosis can be tricky - another reason leaky gut has been largely overlooked.
Times, Sunday Times
sheer guts
If marks were awarded for sheer guts, she would have been on the podium.
Times, Sunday Times
The images show rock climbers relying on heavy ropes and sheer guts to take on the forbidding peaks.
Times, Sunday Times
But for sheer guts and drama, this was top-of-thebill stuff.
The Sun
The stories of astounding courage, selfsacrifice, sheer guts and determination were deeply humbling.
The Sun
Finally, he has oodles of sheer guts.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 内脏, 取出…的内脏
Japanese: , はらわたを取る
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