单词 | entrails |
释义 | entrails From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Animals Humanentrailsen‧trails /ˈentreɪlz/ noun [plural]HBHHBAthe inside parts of an animal’s or person’s body, especially their intestinesExamples from the Corpusentrails• Hot liquid and entrails spilled over him, and he scrambled out from under the thing.• Conrad Burns by throwing a five-gallon bucket of bison entrails on them during a public meeting.• Saad, whose mighty voice had welled up from his entrails.• Over the next few weeks it will slowly grow itself a new set of entrails.• Dougal could read meaning into the meaningless, like a priest finding omens in the steaming entrails of a sacrificed animal.• She feels as if she is negotiating the entrails of the city in the slow, peristaltic procession.• Several chairs lay on the bare floorboards, their legs broken, their entrails sprung.Origin entrails (1200-1300) Old French entrailles, from Medieval Latin intralia, from Latin interaneus “inside” |
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