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entrails

/en-treylz, -truhlz/US // ˈɛn treɪlz, -trəlz //UK // (ˈɛntreɪlz) //

内脏,内脏器官,内脏中,内脏中含有的物质

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Definitions

n.名词(复数) plural noun
  1. 1
    • : the internal parts of the trunk of an animal body.
    • : the intestines.
    • : the internal parts of anything: the entrails of a machine.

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Examples

  • Legal minds look to the text to read the thoughts of the Framers as a high priest would study entrails at the Forum.

  • It launches with a family hacked to death by one of its members, the mother's abdomen reduced to “a bloody bowl of entrails.”

  • By fleeing his palace, Mubarak responded to the instinct not to have his entrails on display in the public square.

  • They gleefully bathe in fresh entrails; they rip the limbs off human bodies like a gourmand digging into a fresh lobster.

  • I dig out strings of beads so impertinently large that they could never have been spat from the mere entrails of an oyster.

  • My entrails were troubled in seeking her: therefore shall I possess a good possession.

  • There were augurs and haruspices to discover the will of the gods, according to entrails and the flight of birds.

  • It consists of the fattest parts of the entrails of the pig, broiled in an oven.

  • He instructs the Mother Serpent to slay a wild ox and conceal herself in its entrails.

  • The water-line is strewn with cast-off salmon heads and entrails.