gut

1. N-PLURAL A person's or animal's guts are all the organs inside them. 內髒

By the time they finish, the crewmen are standing ankle-deep in fish guts. 到他們結束時，船員們正站在齊腳踝深的魚內髒堆裡。

2. V-T When someone guts a dead animal or fish, they prepare it for cooking by removing all the organs from inside it. 取出…的內髒

It is not always necessary to gut the fish prior to freezing. 在冷凍魚之前沒有必要縂是取出其內髒。

3. N-SING The gut is the tube inside the body of a person or animal through which food passes while it is being digested. 腸['the'/poss N]

Toxins can leak from the gut into the bloodstream. 毒素能夠從腸道滲透到血液裡。

4. N-UNCOUNT Guts is the will and courage to do something that is difficult or unpleasant, or which might have unpleasant results. 膽量[非正式]

The new governor has the guts to push through unpopular tax increases. 新任州長有膽量強制通過不得人心的增稅方案通過。

5. ADJ A gut feeling is based on instinct or emotion rather than reason. 直覺的

Let's have your gut reaction to the facts as we know them. 請告訴我們你對這些我們了解的事實的直覺反應。

6. N-COUNT You can refer to someone's stomach as their gut, especially when it is very large and sticks out. 肚腩[非正式]

His gut sagged out over his belt. 他的肚腩垂在腰帶上。

7. V-T To gut a building means to destroy the inside of it so that only its outside walls remain. 損燬 (建築物) 的內部

Over the weekend, a firebomb gutted a building where 60 people lived. 周末，一顆燃燒彈焚燬了一座住著60人的建築內部。

8. N-UNCOUNT 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. (用於制網球拍、琴弦等的) 腸線

Gerald's violin strings are made of gut rather than steel. 傑拉爾德的小提琴弦是用腸線而不是鋼絲制成的。

9. PHRASE If you hate someone's guts, you dislike them very much. 對某人恨之入骨[非正式]

We hate each other's guts. 我們對彼此恨之入骨。

10. PHRASE If you say that you are working your guts out, you are emphasizing that you are working as hard as you can. 拼命工作[非正式]

Most have worked their guts out and made sacrifices. 大多數人都拼命工作竝做出了犧牲。