请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 entrails
释义

Definition of entrails in English:

entrails

plural nounˈɛntreɪlz
  • 1A person's or animal's intestines or internal organs, especially when removed or exposed.

    (人或动物的)肠,内脏

    a priest would find omens in the steaming entrails of a sacrificed animal
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There was also a Santeria altar, upon which animal entrails had been arrayed in hopes of bringing ill fortune to several people listed on an attached piece of paper.
    • A large gash across the old male's abdomen glistened, his entrails exposed to the sun.
    • Much to my disappointment, however, this did not involve the use of animal entrails or crystal balls.
    • One had exposed entrails, like blood-flecked sausage.
    • I must confess I had no choice but to remove the rabbit's entrails and bones with my teeth.
    • The original umbles were the innards of the deer: the liver, heart, entrails and other second-class bits.
    • Divination was accomplished by ‘reading’ the appearance and arrangement of the entrails of newly sacrificed animals such as chickens and sheep.
    • In the deluxe version, the brain was generally extracted down the nose and the entrails removed before the hollow body was dried out with salts.
    • The function of the haruspices was divination of the future from the entrails of sacrificial animals.
    • You could count the pulsing intestines and gleaming entrails in his breast.
    • He would make one long incision - the length of the carcass - so that the entrails could be removed.
    • Battles were presented by having the men in white coats chopping up real animal entrails.
    • All of them are relatively large parcels of offal mixed with cereal and enclosed in some suitable wrapping from an animal's entrails, usually the stomach.
    • The 56-foot dead whale had been on a truck headed for an autopsy at a university earlier this week, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan.
    • Once the blood has drained, the stall-owner plucks off the feathers, removes the entrails and hands the bird over in a bag.
    • In ancient Rome, emperors would divine truth by reading the entrails of animals or vanquished foes.
    • Seers interpreted claps of thunder, lightning flashes or the condition of a sacrificed animal's entrails.
    • It has become conventional-almost expected-that we should play the role of seer, cast the oracle bones, and examine the entrails of animals.
    • It's not quite trying to divining the future from animal entrails, but I wouldn't use it as the most definitive measure of economic life in the Valley.
    • In some cases, entrails of slaughtered animals are served back to others ‘stuck in the queue’ at slaughterhouses.
    Synonyms
    intestines, internal organs, bowels, guts, vital organs, viscera
    offal
    informal insides, innards
    British archaic numbles
    1. 1.1 The innermost parts of something.
      〈喻〉(物体的)内部
      digging copper out of the entrails of the earth

      从地下挖出铜矿。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • They descend, director and characters together, into the anal entrails and Sadean viscera of war.
      • The dungeon is more like a catacomb, linking a series of tableaux that expose the grisliest entrails of York's history.
      • To my horror, Tulsi Pipe Road was now shamefully dug up, its bowels exposed and the entrails left lying on one side for the world to see.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French entrailles, from medieval Latin intralia, alteration of Latin interanea 'internal things', based on inter 'among'.

  • The root meaning of entrails is ‘insides’. It is from Old French entrailles, from medieval Latin intralia, an alteration of Latin interanea ‘internal things’, based on inter ‘among’.

Definition of entrails in US English:

entrails

plural noun
  • 1A person or animal's intestines or internal organs, especially when removed or exposed.

    (人或动物的)肠,内脏

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I must confess I had no choice but to remove the rabbit's entrails and bones with my teeth.
    • In the deluxe version, the brain was generally extracted down the nose and the entrails removed before the hollow body was dried out with salts.
    • One had exposed entrails, like blood-flecked sausage.
    • Seers interpreted claps of thunder, lightning flashes or the condition of a sacrificed animal's entrails.
    • You could count the pulsing intestines and gleaming entrails in his breast.
    • It has become conventional-almost expected-that we should play the role of seer, cast the oracle bones, and examine the entrails of animals.
    • All of them are relatively large parcels of offal mixed with cereal and enclosed in some suitable wrapping from an animal's entrails, usually the stomach.
    • It's not quite trying to divining the future from animal entrails, but I wouldn't use it as the most definitive measure of economic life in the Valley.
    • The function of the haruspices was divination of the future from the entrails of sacrificial animals.
    • Divination was accomplished by ‘reading’ the appearance and arrangement of the entrails of newly sacrificed animals such as chickens and sheep.
    • In some cases, entrails of slaughtered animals are served back to others ‘stuck in the queue’ at slaughterhouses.
    • There was also a Santeria altar, upon which animal entrails had been arrayed in hopes of bringing ill fortune to several people listed on an attached piece of paper.
    • Much to my disappointment, however, this did not involve the use of animal entrails or crystal balls.
    • A large gash across the old male's abdomen glistened, his entrails exposed to the sun.
    • The 56-foot dead whale had been on a truck headed for an autopsy at a university earlier this week, when gases from internal decay caused its entrails to explode in the southern city of Tainan.
    • The original umbles were the innards of the deer: the liver, heart, entrails and other second-class bits.
    • Once the blood has drained, the stall-owner plucks off the feathers, removes the entrails and hands the bird over in a bag.
    • In ancient Rome, emperors would divine truth by reading the entrails of animals or vanquished foes.
    • He would make one long incision - the length of the carcass - so that the entrails could be removed.
    • Battles were presented by having the men in white coats chopping up real animal entrails.
    Synonyms
    intestines, internal organs, bowels, guts, vital organs, viscera
    1. 1.1 The innermost parts of something.
      〈喻〉(物体的)内部
      digging copper out of the entrails of the earth

      从地下挖出铜矿。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • To my horror, Tulsi Pipe Road was now shamefully dug up, its bowels exposed and the entrails left lying on one side for the world to see.
      • They descend, director and characters together, into the anal entrails and Sadean viscera of war.
      • The dungeon is more like a catacomb, linking a series of tableaux that expose the grisliest entrails of York's history.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French entrailles, from medieval Latin intralia, alteration of Latin interanea ‘internal things’, based on inter ‘among’.

随便看

 

英汉双解词典包含464360条英汉词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/9/21 13:23:05