Definition of gut in English:

gut

nounPlural guts ɡʌtɡət

1also gutsThe stomach or belly.
腹部；肚子
the terrible pain in his gut
Example sentencesExamples
- His voice, deeper and from the gut, returns in this CD to a peaceable realm, to the great meditative music of the Mandingo empire.
- I didn't even have time to respond, my entire focus was spent on making sure my face didn't look like someone punched me in the gut.
- When Tom Friedman starts talking peace plans, it's usually time for either a stomach pump or a belly laugh - either way, your guts are going to be sore.
- All of this has got to cause a churning in his gut.
- All they are is a stabbing knife-like pain in the guts.
- You slice your wrist and it's as good as stabbing yourself in the gut.
- If a crocodile ate her alive, you'd imagine she'd give the rotter a good ticking off while trapped inside its guts.
- If you get churning guts, concentrate on relaxing your stomach muscles.
- His guts screamed with pain, and he was so disoriented he couldn't move until the sound of gunshots made him force himself to get up.
- It doesn't mean that you'll end up with six bullets in your guts.
- It would've taken away the pain that now twisted inside his guts.
- Griffin looked at his stomach, seeing that his own knife was jabbed into his guts.
- Patients will almost never knee you in the groin or kick you in the gut.
- Youth's bass lines still hit you full on in the gut, whilst Geordie's fabulously taut guitar works still works its way right inside your ears.
- I do still feel like I've been kicked in the gut, but I've kind of gotten used to that.
- If the President lined up every world leader in a line and systematically punched each of them in the gut in the name of unilateral diplomacy, would you still vote for him?
- Sims' basslines were jabs to the gut - physical in the extreme.
- There was a slight itching pain in my guts and my face burned.
- My students were not even afraid to try to hurt me: two boys spent a month throwing pencils at me in the middle of lessons; another child slugged me in the gut.
- Some angry fan punched him in the gut, injured him, and he lost the Tour.
Synonyms
stomach, belly, abdomen
intestines, bowels, colon
informal tummy, tum, insides, innards, breadbasket
Australian informal bingy
Medicine solar plexus
1. 1.1Biology Medicine The lower alimentary canal or a part of this; the intestine.
  〔医，生〕下消化道；下消化道的一部分；肠
  microbes which naturally live in the human gut
  自然存在于肠道中的细菌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Some of these organisms can damage the cells lining the inner surface of the gut and interfere with the normal processes of the intestines.
  A stoma is an artificial opening to or from the intestine (which is also known as the gut or bowel) on the abdominal wall usually created by a surgeon.
  Different strains infect different tissues and organs - lungs, guts, kidneys, livers, brains or reproductive systems.
  The cells in the brain and in the gut have receptors that respond to nicotine.
  In some the problem has a behavioural basis, whereas in others there may be subtle neuromuscular abnormalities of the gut.
2. 1.2guts Entrails that have been removed or exposed in violence or by a butcher.
  （暴露或取出的）内脏
  Example sentencesExamples
  I was looking down at the butchered corpse of a man whose belly had been slashed and his guts spread for some distance along the ground.
  In May, a processing plant in Carthage Missouri began turning turkey guts, feathers, blood and carcasses into an oil alternative.
  Look at the power of Wallace; it's 700 years since his guts were dug from his belly and his extremities planted around the countryside, yet there goes the sword.
  Cut off the heads, remove the clear coloured backbone and remove the guts to leave a large opening at the head end.
  Mother's guts had been literally ripped out from her stomach.
  Removing the guts she placed them in a separate bag lined with snow to keep them fresh.
  A small hand reached from behind him, ripping his belly open, spilling out his guts.
  My father cut the shark open, removed the guts, cut the head off, and then preserved him in ice.
  Imagine trying to remove the guts of a cow or chicken once every minute.
  People were running and screaming bodies littered the floor some turned inside out with brains and guts littering the floor.
  Jurgis arrives for work and is quickly trained to sweep up the guts and entrails of the slaughtered cattle, following behind the disemboweler.
  She watched him wrap his bloody arms around his stomach as if he was trying to hold in his guts.
  The locals told me that it's normal to see camels walking through the desert and their guts fall out because camel spiders eat their intestinal walls.
  It feels like a cannon ball has just slammed into my stomach and my guts are all strewn over the place.
  During slaughter some of the guts may spill onto meat.
  There are exploding blood packs, guts hanging out of soldiers and, that good old stylistic standby, the shift into slo-mo.
  I get to hunt Africa every year and without the steaks and the guts from the antelope, many African societies would have vanished already.
  Instinctively, my eyes roll back into my skull as I claw open the fish's belly, spilling its guts into the water.
  I need to be taken back and have my guts put back in the stomach where nature intended them.
  The last one standing, who had one hand holding his own guts in, flickered and disappeared from existence.
  Synonyms
  intestines, entrails
  vital organs, bodily organs, vital parts, viscera
  offal
  informal insides, innards
  British archaic numbles
3. 1.3informal A fat stomach.
  〈非正式〉肥胖的肚子
  Example sentencesExamples
  I've got a few gray hairs, a bit of a gut and I've just started smoking cigars.
  My face was splotchy and I had this huge gut, which I've never had in my life.
  With his stringy gray braided ponytail and ample gut, he was more like an aging hippie than an endurance athlete.
  But of course to anyone listening to that conversation you would think she was commenting on my (sadly increasing) gut or on my gluttony.
  So if you're thinking about lazing around, remember that the result may be a sour attitude as well as a flabby gut.
  The way I figure it, all I have to do is get my big daddy gut down to a manageable size, and I'll be the best exotic dancer ever to grace a gas station.
  He is an awful, putrid man with a tattooed face and a huge gut.
  Fish-belly white thighs and guts are not attractive.
  He looks like a million guys in Brooklyn, brunette and all gut.
  In recent photos, however, he looked haggard and ravaged, his face a withered pumpkin atop a doughy gut.
4. 1.4guts The inner parts or essence of something.
  内部，内部物；内容，本质
  the guts of a modern computer
  现代电脑的内部结构。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The car's front hood is off, exposing its iron guts - all of which are glistening with a thin coat of gasoline.
  It took a foreign coach to unleash the real power from within the gut of England by summoning the courage to select about seven young, black, gifted patriots.
  There are ten cables spilling out of a socket in the kitchen, white tubes that remind me of the guts of the robot in the Alien movie.
  Flex can now take a job start-to-finish, designing not only the electronic guts, but also the look and feel of products.
  Because of space issues, I was removing the PSU's guts and thus losing all the shielding provided by the metal chassis.
  When hybrid cars are given cheaper, more powerful electrical guts, their popularity will really take off.
  He turned the alarm over to see why it hadn't woken him up, and noticed that half of its electronic guts were strewn all over the floor.
  Somebody is selling a music player whose guts have been swapped with the innards of what looks like a $2 miniature toy electric guitar.
  The guts of the phone had been removed and in its place there was a simple red button.
  Like Jacques Brel before him, Elliott strips his songs of any superfluous attribute, only leaving them bare, exposing their guts, and his, for all to see.
  A Tom Yum soup has its characteristic guts knocked out of it, a faint savour of lemon grass lending some edge to a bland coconut milk liquor bulked up with mushrooms and a few morsels of tasteless prawn.
  They are commuting into New Orleans, swabbing the mold off walls, ripping the guts out of buildings, removing mountains of soggy debris.
  They look like the inner guts of extraterrestrial watches.
5. 1.5gutswith modifier Used to form names attributing negative characteristics to people.
  …之徒，…的家伙（与含贬义的形容词一起用）
  what's the matter with you, misery guts?
  怎么了，可怜虫？
  greedy guts
  贪心的家伙。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I'm sorry I'm being such a greedy guts.
  Plus, he is an absolute misery guts with no apparent sense of humour.
  But what about all those folk who write them off as joyless misery guts?
  Diet expert Rachel Halkyard has some bulge-busting advice for greedy guts this Christmas.
  Do you live with or work with or are you married to a real misery guts?
  With the exception of a certain Glaswegian misery guts, just about everybody in English football would like to see him make it.
2informal often as modifier Used in reference to a feeling or reaction based on an instinctive emotional response rather than considered thought.
〈非正式〉（情感，反应）发自内心深处的；出于本能的
I had a gut feeling that something was wrong
trusting his gut instinct, he went ahead and made the call
I could feel it in my guts—he was out there, watching me
Example sentencesExamples
- The following figures are not from anything I have read but are simply gut feelings.
- I don't think that their position, based on their gut reaction, is justifiable.
- Well, I've been thinking about this as objectively as possible, but it's time to get down to gut feelings.
- At the same time, I saw clear signs that my gut feelings weren't that far off base.
- But, in the end, we must listen to gut instinct, be creative, and take risks.
- Highly ritualized pictorial constructions, these elegant, stylish surfaces are to gut emotion as a boxing match is to a street fight.
- The gut reaction was based on three arguments whose wisdom had been proved by long experience.
- These are just emotional and gut feelings that come to me off the top of my head.
- The officer's intuitions, gut feelings and sixth sense about a situation are all disallowed.
- We commonly think of the intuition as a strong feeling, instinct, or gut reaction.
- However, rather than accept that this totally destroys her argument she instead chooses to ignore it in favour of her gut feelings, and urges us to do likewise.
- It will not be a gut reaction, but an informed decision based on the knowledge that what I want and what he wants are very different things.
- The question, though, is whether one's personal likes and dislikes, one's gut feelings, can honestly count as critical judgment.
- But you should develop the capacity to reflect on gut feelings rather than acting on them impulsively.
- Secondly, Dr Wiseman discovered that people who appear to have good fortune tend to make effective decisions by acting on their intuition and gut feelings.
- Belina's editorial choices are based more on a gut level response than on theory.
- Call it gut feeling or intuition, but I really think he's somewhere around there.
- Business decisions certainly involve mind games, not just gut feelings or pure intuition.
- I don't know, but my hope and my gut feeling aren't the same.
- I don't frankly like to base myself on instincts or gut feelings about this.
Synonyms
instinctive, instinctual, intuitive, impulsive, natural, basic, emotional, heartfelt, deep-seated
knee-jerk, automatic, involuntary, spontaneous, unthinking
3gutsinformal Personal courage and determination; toughness of character.
〈非正式〉胆量，勇气；毅力；意志
he didn't have the guts to tell the truth
Example sentencesExamples
- Their major concern was how a buyer should have the guts to determine the cost of a product instead of the seller, as is normally the case.
- They simply battle on, showing the kind of guts and determination some of their more illustrious opponents seem to lack.
- ‘It was a great team effort, but courage and guts only get you so far sometimes’.
- He also has the guts and strength of character to impress the others in the pitlane.
- I didn't have a lot of courage or the guts to do something bad.
- Someone once wrote that there are only two things needed to win the American presidency: character and guts.
- The difference between dreamers and achievers is grit, guts and spirit, which the former might lack but the latter have in abundance.
- His guts and his courage got him there in the end.
- He is proof that there are many young people with principles, guts and determination and it's time we started respecting them for it.
- The difference is that Connell's characters usually lack the guts to act on their urges.
- But a second half full of passion, belief, guts and mental toughness saw the Knights fight back to win in another mesmerising finale.
- But Campbell's determination, courage and sheer guts save the book from dull unoriginality.
- It might take a lot of guts for the average person to swim alongside Sand Tiger sharks, which grow to an average length of nine foot and are known for being aggressive.
- It was a big game, and we showed guts and character to win it.
- We needed lots of guts, determination and character to win the game - and we need to do that for the rest of the season.
- Yarnbury moved out of the bottom three as sheer guts, determination and spirit saw them through.
- It has taken character and guts, on and off the field, as well as some superlatively effective play.
- It took a lot of guts and just sheer personal strength to be out in the streets like you've seen the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators over the last week.
- You know, it might have helped just a little bit if Paul and others like him had shown a bit more guts a couple of years ago.
- And what guts it had to have taken to do what they did.
Synonyms
courage, courageousness, bravery, valour, backbone, nerve, fortitude, pluck, pluckiness, mettle, mettlesomeness, spirit, boldness, audacity, daring, fearlessness, hardiness, toughness, forcefulness, determination, resolve, resolution
informal grit, gumption, spunk, gutsiness, gameness
British informal bottle, ballsiness
North American informal moxie, cojones, sand
vulgar slang balls
4mass noun Fibre made from the intestines of animals, used especially for violin or racket strings or for surgical use.
肠线（由动物的肠制成，尤用于制作小提琴琴弦、网球拍或用于外科手术中）
Example sentencesExamples
- Overwound (overspun or wire-wound) strings have a core of gut, silk, nylon, or wire wrapped in metal wire or ribbon.
- It's like a pear-shaped instrument, the body is covered in skin, and the strings are made of gut.
- The instrument itself was made of wood, with gut or horsehair strings.
- There's no conductor; she directs them herself… and she's strung her Strad with gut, and plays it with a classical bow.
- Tchaikovsky's strings were gut rather than metal and were played with little vibrato.
5A narrow passage or strait.
狭道，隘路；狭水道，狭海峡
Example sentencesExamples
- Various tours are available by speed boats that take you for the most spectacular views, even up the gut to laugh in the face of El Diablo.
- After failing to catch New on Friday, Teddy Hall went for the kill on Saturday, coming to within a canvas as the crews approached the gut.
- Most bumps in the Rowing-On divisions took place below the gut, leaving spectators not much more to observe than the bizarre attire of various crews.
- McHale was trudging through the gut ahead of me at the side of the boat when he suddenly vanished at a spot marked only by the float of his hat.

verbgutting, gutted, guts ɡʌtɡət

[with object]

1Remove the intestines and other internal organs from (a fish or other animal) before cooking it.
取出（鱼等动物）的内脏
Example sentencesExamples
- After getting a few fish each, they swam in the pond before they went back to the beach to clean and gut the fish and prepare them for dinner.
- I also give a detailed account of skinning and gutting a rabbit.
- Most importantly, he is also a very competent member of a trawler's crew, capable of gutting the fish fast enough to keep the packers happy.
- If I'd been a guy she would have gutted me like a fish.
- Another friend fainted when we gutted the rabbits and found tapeworms.
- If they knew it was you who turned them in, they'd gut you like a fish.
- Let the fishmonger scale, clean and gut the fish (I leave the head on).
- The deer is gutted where it lies, its innards checked for any sign of disease, before it is dragged back down the hill to the pick-up.
- Whilst Ingrid cuts and guts the fish, the children go into the woods to collect nuts and berries, which are just coming into season.
- A 12-ounce whole fish, gutted and steamed in two tablespoons of liquid, cooks in two minutes.
- The fish were gutted and stuffed with a spoonful of herbs, or mustard, apple, or samphire.
- Most people nowadays do not wring chickens' necks, pluck them, and cook them for dinner, or butcher their own pigs, or gut their own fish.
- The other day I took a whole sea bass, cleaned and gutted by the fishmonger, and filled its belly with a pulp of lemon grass, ginger, peppercorns and coriander.
- Those who have gutted a deer or skinned a rabbit might have some idea of the extreme nature of what an edged weapon can do to flesh.
- Jeff went to work and the fish was bled, gutted, headed and on the ice within another five minutes.
- He had finished gutting the rabbit and shoved the meat onto sticks, placing them into the flames.
- At street-side stalls that are sometimes nothing more than a bowl on the ground, fish are gutted and sold and vegetables haggled over.
- While all the fish in a display case has been gutted, pan-ready fish have the fins and scales removed and have been thoroughly washed.
- The cow did have to be gutted and tested for mad cow disease, however.
- To gut the fish, make a slit up the length of the belly under running water and cut off the fins with scissors.
Synonyms
disembowel, eviscerate, draw, dress, clean, remove the innards from, remove the guts from
rare embowel, disbowel, exenterate, gralloch, paunch
1. 1.1 Remove or destroy completely the internal parts of (a building or other structure)
  清除（或清空、摧毁）（建筑物等）的内部
  the fire gutted most of the factory
  大火烧毁了工厂里大部分的东西。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Despite the desperate efforts of the local inhabitants, the school building was totally gutted by the time the firefighters got to the scene.
  In the old city, many homes had been gutted and destroyed.
  Diners and workers were forced to flee a restaurant as a fire gutted the building in minutes.
  A family of five are having to live in one hotel room after a fire gutted their home.
  In February demolition work started, and the building was gutted, leaving just the shell.
  In the early 1980s, fire gutted the structure leaving only the later wings roofed.
  The fire, the cause of which is currently unknown, has gutted a building housing the vast majority of the University's computer servers and networking equipment.
  By this time, Mrs Hatley's old kitchen had been gutted ready for the replacement.
  The building was gutted, its roof destroyed, and nothing was salvageable from the ten stalls inside.
  In 1933, a massive fire gutted the Reichstag building in Germany.
  The destruction was so complete that the structure had to be gutted and removed by hand and wheelbarrow, piece by piece.
  The cafe was gutted by a fire last week.
  Forensic experts are still sifting through debris from the Newbridge Courthouse fire, which gutted the historic building last Thursday morning.
  Other buildings in the mill area have been gutted by fire in previous years.
  The couple's ancient cottage was gutted by fire a year ago, but wrangles over insurance left them unable to rebuild it and as a result they have slipped into mortgage arrears.
  The trend where church authorities spend large sums of money gutting old churches and destroying original features is also mentioned in critical terms.
  Up to 50 firefighters wearing breathing apparatus spent two hours bringing the fire that gutted the workshop under control.
  Police said Mr Ruane's home was totally gutted in the fire.
  The sole occupant of the mobile home died in the blaze, and the mobile home was gutted before the fire brigade arrived.
  A disused church hall next to Carshalton Library was gutted by fire in a suspected arson attack around 3.40 pm on Sunday.
  Synonyms
  devastate, destroy, demolish, wipe out, lay waste to, ravage, consume, ruin, leave in ruins, wreck, raze, level, flatten
  literary despoil
2British informal Cause (someone) to feel extremely upset or disappointed.
it guts me to think about what my mother and brother missed out on
Example sentencesExamples
- What has gutted me the most and has really upset me is it has taken me three years to build up the CD collection.
- Something like this, it guts you, doesn't it?’
- I know I can't ever play rugby again which is gutting, but my health comes first.
- And then the students move on and the staff move out, which must be gutting, given the alternative accommodation is a purpose-built campus in Hendon.
- It was a gutting experience that led to six months off; and after that I had to go back to basics, really learn from scratch again.
- Arnold is absolutely gutted by the decision.
- The Elephant man just had me in floods of tears with the sad nobility of Merrick's death, whereas Menace's uber-bleak ending gutted me so much that I ended up choking back tears.
- "It's absolutely gutting to lose a semi-final," he adds.
- If Holly lost out now it would be gutting.
- People take a lot of pride in their cars so to have the badge stolen is gutting.
- I wouldn't say it broke my heart, but it absolutely gutted me.
- To have won the European title six times and not to be able to defend it this year is gutting.
- It is gutting to hear that people will lose their jobs and I really hope that the situation can be resolved positively.
- I think we exceeded what we expected to do out here but you go out there and you want to win and there is a gutting feeling when you lose.
- The thought of having to plead guilty - it's really gutting me.
- We exceeded all our expectations in getting to the final, but it was gutting to finish as losers.
- To be overtaken in the final metres after dominating the race is obviously gutting.
- I was in constant pain and had to cancel a trip I had planned, which was gutting.
- It is still a fertile area to explore and the failure was at least interesting, but nonetheless slightly gutting.
- It gutted me as a member of the goalkeepers' union when Barthez had that bad spell of three or four games but he's come back with some unbelievable saves.
Synonyms
dishearten, discourage, demoralize, cast down, make dejected, make downhearted, depress, dismay, disappoint, daunt, deter, unman, unnerve, crush, sap, shake, throw, cow, subdue, undermine

Phrases

bust a gut

1informal Make a strenuous effort.
努力
a problem which nobody is going to bust a gut trying to solve
一个没人去努力解决的问题。
Example sentencesExamples
- I've just been busting a gut to get everything done before I go to NY tomorrow.
- We win together and we lose together and I knew they would be busting a gut to get the car perfect as quickly as was safely possible.
- I busted a gut to raise that money, to give myself the opportunity to climb the seven mountains.
- Sometimes we feel it's fair to give somebody a chance, sometimes it's to reward players who have bust a gut in training to improve themselves.
- You cannot play this game with nine or ten men busting a gut and a few others standing around watching them.
- But my concern is that our strikers should be busting a gut to score goals like that and I feel a lot of their problems are that too much work is done outside the area.
- You are the one they look up to and try hard to impress, you are the one they will bust a gut for, you are the one they will run to when they've fallen down.
- A fantastic player, a good manager, an Irishman and a guy who would bust a gut for Ireland.
- One doctor said: ‘We've all busted a gut for him and we are trying to make sure we can do the right thing.’
- For their part, the players are excited by the challenge, and plan to go that extra mile, run their legs off and bust a gut for the team in their application to teaching.
Synonyms
try, attempt, venture, undertake, aspire, aim, seek, set out
2informal Laugh very heartily.
开怀大笑，纵声大笑
his facial expressions and ad libs were enough to get audiences to bust a gut
他的脸部表情和脱口而出的俏皮话足以让观众开怀大笑。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sure, Mr. Burns was cute in a grandfatherly way, but who ever busted a gut laughing at a cigar smoking septagenerian who weighs 70 pounds soaking wet?
- I almost bust a gut watching that comedy sketch a couple of weeks ago.
- The dog eating the squeaky toy was simply too much… I nearly bust a gut.
- I never went five minutes without busting a gut.
- Glancing into the audience I saw Papa just about to bust a gut laughing.
- The boys at the Harvard Club busted a gut over that gag!
- Good Lord, I nearly busted a gut laughing!
- What I saw almost made me bust a gut laughing.
- We bust a gut and spilled our coffee and almost choked to death when we read this.
- Why think an awards show can make you bust a gut?
Synonyms
chuckle, chortle, guffaw, giggle, titter, snigger, snicker, cackle, howl, roar, tee-hee, burst out laughing, hoot with laughter, roar with laughter, shake with laughter, be convulsed with laughter, dissolve into laughter, split one's sides, hold one's sides, be doubled up

— one's guts out

informal Used to indicate that the specified action is done or performed as hard as possible.
拼命地，竭尽全力地
I've worked my guts out to get where I am today
Example sentencesExamples
- People who work their guts out against one another in federal elections are one big, happy family here.
- But I have tried my guts out to win the tournament and in the end I blew it.
- These boys just went up there and played their guts out and the audience loved them all the more for it.
- I am satisfied with the effort of the lads today, they really tried their guts out.
- I do sympathise tremendously - here you are slogging your guts out so that your family can be happy, and yet the amount of time you spend out of the home renders you a virtual stranger to them.
- Watch out for the programme to be telecast shortly and laugh your guts out!
- The trend in the industrialised world is for people to work their guts out when young, then move to part-time working patterns or contract-based projects as life moves on.
- It's a good combination, he says - not many bands can scream their guts out and then yodel.
- I wasn't getting paid and although it's not all about money you're not going to slug your guts out for nothing.
- Hats off to all the players currently in Finland playing their guts out for Canada.

hate someone's guts

informal Feel a strong hatred for someone.
〈非正式〉对某人恨之入骨
Example sentencesExamples
- The rest of the country hates his guts and knows he is an evil tyrant.
- I was going out of the house this morning when my housemaid's kid, who hates my guts, hit me in the head with a rock.
- Those on his good side appreciated his innovative methods, his sarcasm and how hard he pushed us, those who didn't respond hated his guts.
- Other economists hate your guts for selling out to the liberals.
- When I went into the audience to interview people, she actually hit me and told me she hated my guts.
- People give the impression that they hate his guts but he hasn't done anything to offend the public.
- I learnt that someone from my past who I thought liked me in fact hates my guts with a passion.
- Then, I got an e-mail from her saying she hates my guts.
- Of course, all Emperors can look forward to most people in the world hating their guts.
- I'm pretty sure my brothers and sisters hated my guts.
Synonyms
loathe, detest, dislike greatly, abhor, abominate, despise, execrate, feel aversion towards, feel revulsion towards, feel hostile towards, be repelled by, be revolted by, regard with disgust, not be able to bear, not be able to stand, be unable to stomach, find intolerable, shudder at, recoil from, shrink from

have someone's guts for garters

humorous Punish someone severely.
〈非正式，主幽默〉严惩某人
if you breathe a word to anyone, I'll have your guts for garters
Example sentencesExamples
- Gordon would have my guts for garters if I tried to interfere.
- Had Mrs Mungo's words from earlier in the morning ringing in my ear all afternoon: ‘Just you remember Mungo: if you dare put up the fees at Gordonstoun, I'll have your guts for garters.’
- The resident came out to give the boy a good ticking off: ‘If my husband comes out to you, he'll have your guts for garters!’
- If I tried to run a meeting of our workers like that, they would have my guts for garters and rightly so.
- I suppose he would have had their guts for garters, but as it was, the main perpetrators got off very lightly.
- She doesn't go on to say: ‘Get it wrong and I'll have your guts for garters,’ but the message is plain.
- The man can write rings around him and here has his guts for garters in his review of Blinded by the Right.
- Jackson grimaced, this wasn't good, this was really bad, and Violet would have his guts for garters, should she get wind of it.

(as) rough as guts

informal Lacking in refinement or sophistication.
the housing was rough as guts
Example sentencesExamples
- It sounded unpolished and the production was a bit ropey; they always sounded rough as guts.
- I saw her two weeks ago: she was looking rough as guts.
- The coffee was rough as guts though, but still better than the mud they serve at our local cafes.
- Their first album was a rough as guts lo-fi recording, but featured considerable verve and passion.
- Sure, some of these huts were rough as guts, but that was part of the deal.

Origin

Old English guttas (plural), probably related to gēotan 'pour'.

Gut is probably related to Old English gēotan ‘to pour’. Guts was used commonly for ‘stomach, bowels’; it became more informal and also came to mean ‘force of character, courage’ from the late 19th century. The notion of ‘basic’ as in gut reaction arose in the 1960s.

Rhymes

abut, but, butt, cut, glut, hut, intercut, jut, Mut, mutt, phut, putt, rut, scut, shortcut, shut, slut, smut, strut, tut, undercut

Definition of gut in US English:

gut

nounɡətɡət

1also gutsThe stomach or belly.
腹部；肚子
a painful stabbing feeling in his gut
他腹部感到的刀扎般的疼痛。
Example sentencesExamples
- When Tom Friedman starts talking peace plans, it's usually time for either a stomach pump or a belly laugh - either way, your guts are going to be sore.
- Sims' basslines were jabs to the gut - physical in the extreme.
- I didn't even have time to respond, my entire focus was spent on making sure my face didn't look like someone punched me in the gut.
- Patients will almost never knee you in the groin or kick you in the gut.
- Some angry fan punched him in the gut, injured him, and he lost the Tour.
- His voice, deeper and from the gut, returns in this CD to a peaceable realm, to the great meditative music of the Mandingo empire.
- Youth's bass lines still hit you full on in the gut, whilst Geordie's fabulously taut guitar works still works its way right inside your ears.
- If you get churning guts, concentrate on relaxing your stomach muscles.
- If the President lined up every world leader in a line and systematically punched each of them in the gut in the name of unilateral diplomacy, would you still vote for him?
- If a crocodile ate her alive, you'd imagine she'd give the rotter a good ticking off while trapped inside its guts.
- His guts screamed with pain, and he was so disoriented he couldn't move until the sound of gunshots made him force himself to get up.
- It would've taken away the pain that now twisted inside his guts.
- You slice your wrist and it's as good as stabbing yourself in the gut.
- All of this has got to cause a churning in his gut.
- It doesn't mean that you'll end up with six bullets in your guts.
- There was a slight itching pain in my guts and my face burned.
- Griffin looked at his stomach, seeing that his own knife was jabbed into his guts.
- All they are is a stabbing knife-like pain in the guts.
- My students were not even afraid to try to hurt me: two boys spent a month throwing pencils at me in the middle of lessons; another child slugged me in the gut.
- I do still feel like I've been kicked in the gut, but I've kind of gotten used to that.
Synonyms
stomach, belly, abdomen
1. 1.1Medicine Biology The lower alimentary canal or a part of this; the intestine.
  〔医，生〕下消化道；下消化道的一部分；肠
  microbes which naturally live in the human gut
  自然存在于肠道中的细菌。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Different strains infect different tissues and organs - lungs, guts, kidneys, livers, brains or reproductive systems.
  In some the problem has a behavioural basis, whereas in others there may be subtle neuromuscular abnormalities of the gut.
  A stoma is an artificial opening to or from the intestine (which is also known as the gut or bowel) on the abdominal wall usually created by a surgeon.
  The cells in the brain and in the gut have receptors that respond to nicotine.
  Some of these organisms can damage the cells lining the inner surface of the gut and interfere with the normal processes of the intestines.
2. 1.2guts Entrails that have been removed or exposed in violence or by a butcher.
  （暴露或取出的）内脏
  Example sentencesExamples
  My father cut the shark open, removed the guts, cut the head off, and then preserved him in ice.
  It feels like a cannon ball has just slammed into my stomach and my guts are all strewn over the place.
  There are exploding blood packs, guts hanging out of soldiers and, that good old stylistic standby, the shift into slo-mo.
  I get to hunt Africa every year and without the steaks and the guts from the antelope, many African societies would have vanished already.
  She watched him wrap his bloody arms around his stomach as if he was trying to hold in his guts.
  Instinctively, my eyes roll back into my skull as I claw open the fish's belly, spilling its guts into the water.
  A small hand reached from behind him, ripping his belly open, spilling out his guts.
  The last one standing, who had one hand holding his own guts in, flickered and disappeared from existence.
  I need to be taken back and have my guts put back in the stomach where nature intended them.
  Imagine trying to remove the guts of a cow or chicken once every minute.
  Mother's guts had been literally ripped out from her stomach.
  People were running and screaming bodies littered the floor some turned inside out with brains and guts littering the floor.
  In May, a processing plant in Carthage Missouri began turning turkey guts, feathers, blood and carcasses into an oil alternative.
  During slaughter some of the guts may spill onto meat.
  Look at the power of Wallace; it's 700 years since his guts were dug from his belly and his extremities planted around the countryside, yet there goes the sword.
  Removing the guts she placed them in a separate bag lined with snow to keep them fresh.
  The locals told me that it's normal to see camels walking through the desert and their guts fall out because camel spiders eat their intestinal walls.
  I was looking down at the butchered corpse of a man whose belly had been slashed and his guts spread for some distance along the ground.
  Cut off the heads, remove the clear coloured backbone and remove the guts to leave a large opening at the head end.
  Jurgis arrives for work and is quickly trained to sweep up the guts and entrails of the slaughtered cattle, following behind the disemboweler.
  Synonyms
  intestines, entrails
3. 1.3guts The internal parts or essence of something.
  内部，内部物；内容，本质
  the guts of a modern computer
  现代电脑的内部结构。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They look like the inner guts of extraterrestrial watches.
  When hybrid cars are given cheaper, more powerful electrical guts, their popularity will really take off.
  Somebody is selling a music player whose guts have been swapped with the innards of what looks like a $2 miniature toy electric guitar.
  Because of space issues, I was removing the PSU's guts and thus losing all the shielding provided by the metal chassis.
  The car's front hood is off, exposing its iron guts - all of which are glistening with a thin coat of gasoline.
  Like Jacques Brel before him, Elliott strips his songs of any superfluous attribute, only leaving them bare, exposing their guts, and his, for all to see.
  They are commuting into New Orleans, swabbing the mold off walls, ripping the guts out of buildings, removing mountains of soggy debris.
  It took a foreign coach to unleash the real power from within the gut of England by summoning the courage to select about seven young, black, gifted patriots.
  A Tom Yum soup has its characteristic guts knocked out of it, a faint savour of lemon grass lending some edge to a bland coconut milk liquor bulked up with mushrooms and a few morsels of tasteless prawn.
  The guts of the phone had been removed and in its place there was a simple red button.
  Flex can now take a job start-to-finish, designing not only the electronic guts, but also the look and feel of products.
  He turned the alarm over to see why it hadn't woken him up, and noticed that half of its electronic guts were strewn all over the floor.
  There are ten cables spilling out of a socket in the kitchen, white tubes that remind me of the guts of the robot in the Alien movie.
2informal often as modifier Used in reference to a feeling or reaction based on an instinctive emotional response rather than considered thought.
〈非正式〉（情感，反应）发自内心深处的；出于本能的
I had a gut feeling that something was wrong
trusting his gut instinct, he went ahead and made the call
I could feel it in my guts—he was out there, watching me
Example sentencesExamples
- Well, I've been thinking about this as objectively as possible, but it's time to get down to gut feelings.
- It will not be a gut reaction, but an informed decision based on the knowledge that what I want and what he wants are very different things.
- But you should develop the capacity to reflect on gut feelings rather than acting on them impulsively.
- I don't know, but my hope and my gut feeling aren't the same.
- The officer's intuitions, gut feelings and sixth sense about a situation are all disallowed.
- Business decisions certainly involve mind games, not just gut feelings or pure intuition.
- Highly ritualized pictorial constructions, these elegant, stylish surfaces are to gut emotion as a boxing match is to a street fight.
- Secondly, Dr Wiseman discovered that people who appear to have good fortune tend to make effective decisions by acting on their intuition and gut feelings.
- But, in the end, we must listen to gut instinct, be creative, and take risks.
- We commonly think of the intuition as a strong feeling, instinct, or gut reaction.
- The gut reaction was based on three arguments whose wisdom had been proved by long experience.
- At the same time, I saw clear signs that my gut feelings weren't that far off base.
- Call it gut feeling or intuition, but I really think he's somewhere around there.
- The following figures are not from anything I have read but are simply gut feelings.
- Belina's editorial choices are based more on a gut level response than on theory.
- The question, though, is whether one's personal likes and dislikes, one's gut feelings, can honestly count as critical judgment.
- These are just emotional and gut feelings that come to me off the top of my head.
- I don't frankly like to base myself on instincts or gut feelings about this.
- I don't think that their position, based on their gut reaction, is justifiable.
- However, rather than accept that this totally destroys her argument she instead chooses to ignore it in favour of her gut feelings, and urges us to do likewise.
Synonyms
instinctive, instinctual, intuitive, impulsive, natural, basic, emotional, heartfelt, deep-seated
3gutsinformal Personal courage and determination; toughness of character.
〈非正式〉胆量，勇气；毅力；意志
she had both more brains and more guts than her husband
她不仅比她丈夫聪明，也比他更有魄力。
you just haven't got the guts to admit it
你就是没有胆量承认。
Example sentencesExamples
- I didn't have a lot of courage or the guts to do something bad.
- The difference is that Connell's characters usually lack the guts to act on their urges.
- The difference between dreamers and achievers is grit, guts and spirit, which the former might lack but the latter have in abundance.
- It might take a lot of guts for the average person to swim alongside Sand Tiger sharks, which grow to an average length of nine foot and are known for being aggressive.
- He also has the guts and strength of character to impress the others in the pitlane.
- You know, it might have helped just a little bit if Paul and others like him had shown a bit more guts a couple of years ago.
- But a second half full of passion, belief, guts and mental toughness saw the Knights fight back to win in another mesmerising finale.
- He is proof that there are many young people with principles, guts and determination and it's time we started respecting them for it.
- It was a big game, and we showed guts and character to win it.
- Yarnbury moved out of the bottom three as sheer guts, determination and spirit saw them through.
- It took a lot of guts and just sheer personal strength to be out in the streets like you've seen the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators over the last week.
- And what guts it had to have taken to do what they did.
- They simply battle on, showing the kind of guts and determination some of their more illustrious opponents seem to lack.
- ‘It was a great team effort, but courage and guts only get you so far sometimes’.
- Their major concern was how a buyer should have the guts to determine the cost of a product instead of the seller, as is normally the case.
- We needed lots of guts, determination and character to win the game - and we need to do that for the rest of the season.
- But Campbell's determination, courage and sheer guts save the book from dull unoriginality.
- It has taken character and guts, on and off the field, as well as some superlatively effective play.
- Someone once wrote that there are only two things needed to win the American presidency: character and guts.
- His guts and his courage got him there in the end.
Synonyms
courage, courageousness, bravery, valour, backbone, nerve, fortitude, pluck, pluckiness, mettle, mettlesomeness, spirit, boldness, audacity, daring, fearlessness, hardiness, toughness, forcefulness, determination, resolve, resolution
4Fiber made from the intestines of animals, used especially for violin or racket strings or for surgical use.
肠线（由动物的肠制成，尤用于制作小提琴琴弦、网球拍或用于外科手术中）
as modifier gut strings
Example sentencesExamples
- The instrument itself was made of wood, with gut or horsehair strings.
- It's like a pear-shaped instrument, the body is covered in skin, and the strings are made of gut.
- Tchaikovsky's strings were gut rather than metal and were played with little vibrato.
- There's no conductor; she directs them herself… and she's strung her Strad with gut, and plays it with a classical bow.
- Overwound (overspun or wire-wound) strings have a core of gut, silk, nylon, or wire wrapped in metal wire or ribbon.
5A narrow passage or strait.
狭道，隘路；狭水道，狭海峡
Example sentencesExamples
- McHale was trudging through the gut ahead of me at the side of the boat when he suddenly vanished at a spot marked only by the float of his hat.
- Various tours are available by speed boats that take you for the most spectacular views, even up the gut to laugh in the face of El Diablo.
- After failing to catch New on Friday, Teddy Hall went for the kill on Saturday, coming to within a canvas as the crews approached the gut.
- Most bumps in the Rowing-On divisions took place below the gut, leaving spectators not much more to observe than the bizarre attire of various crews.

verbɡətɡət

[with object]

1Take out the intestines and other internal organs of (a fish or other animal) before cooking it.
取出（鱼等动物）的内脏
Example sentencesExamples
- Jeff went to work and the fish was bled, gutted, headed and on the ice within another five minutes.
- To gut the fish, make a slit up the length of the belly under running water and cut off the fins with scissors.
- Whilst Ingrid cuts and guts the fish, the children go into the woods to collect nuts and berries, which are just coming into season.
- After getting a few fish each, they swam in the pond before they went back to the beach to clean and gut the fish and prepare them for dinner.
- Another friend fainted when we gutted the rabbits and found tapeworms.
- If they knew it was you who turned them in, they'd gut you like a fish.
- Let the fishmonger scale, clean and gut the fish (I leave the head on).
- While all the fish in a display case has been gutted, pan-ready fish have the fins and scales removed and have been thoroughly washed.
- Those who have gutted a deer or skinned a rabbit might have some idea of the extreme nature of what an edged weapon can do to flesh.
- Most people nowadays do not wring chickens' necks, pluck them, and cook them for dinner, or butcher their own pigs, or gut their own fish.
- The deer is gutted where it lies, its innards checked for any sign of disease, before it is dragged back down the hill to the pick-up.
- The other day I took a whole sea bass, cleaned and gutted by the fishmonger, and filled its belly with a pulp of lemon grass, ginger, peppercorns and coriander.
- The cow did have to be gutted and tested for mad cow disease, however.
- Most importantly, he is also a very competent member of a trawler's crew, capable of gutting the fish fast enough to keep the packers happy.
- A 12-ounce whole fish, gutted and steamed in two tablespoons of liquid, cooks in two minutes.
- I also give a detailed account of skinning and gutting a rabbit.
- The fish were gutted and stuffed with a spoonful of herbs, or mustard, apple, or samphire.
- If I'd been a guy she would have gutted me like a fish.
- He had finished gutting the rabbit and shoved the meat onto sticks, placing them into the flames.
- At street-side stalls that are sometimes nothing more than a bowl on the ground, fish are gutted and sold and vegetables haggled over.
Synonyms
disembowel, eviscerate, draw, dress, clean, remove the innards from, remove the guts from
1. 1.1 Remove or destroy completely the internal parts of (a building or other structure)
  清除（或清空、摧毁）（建筑物等）的内部
  the fire gutted most of the factory
  大火烧毁了工厂里大部分的东西。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Police said Mr Ruane's home was totally gutted in the fire.
  Forensic experts are still sifting through debris from the Newbridge Courthouse fire, which gutted the historic building last Thursday morning.
  The fire, the cause of which is currently unknown, has gutted a building housing the vast majority of the University's computer servers and networking equipment.
  The sole occupant of the mobile home died in the blaze, and the mobile home was gutted before the fire brigade arrived.
  Other buildings in the mill area have been gutted by fire in previous years.
  Diners and workers were forced to flee a restaurant as a fire gutted the building in minutes.
  The destruction was so complete that the structure had to be gutted and removed by hand and wheelbarrow, piece by piece.
  In February demolition work started, and the building was gutted, leaving just the shell.
  A disused church hall next to Carshalton Library was gutted by fire in a suspected arson attack around 3.40 pm on Sunday.
  The trend where church authorities spend large sums of money gutting old churches and destroying original features is also mentioned in critical terms.
  By this time, Mrs Hatley's old kitchen had been gutted ready for the replacement.
  A family of five are having to live in one hotel room after a fire gutted their home.
  In 1933, a massive fire gutted the Reichstag building in Germany.
  The cafe was gutted by a fire last week.
  The couple's ancient cottage was gutted by fire a year ago, but wrangles over insurance left them unable to rebuild it and as a result they have slipped into mortgage arrears.
  In the early 1980s, fire gutted the structure leaving only the later wings roofed.
  Despite the desperate efforts of the local inhabitants, the school building was totally gutted by the time the firefighters got to the scene.
  In the old city, many homes had been gutted and destroyed.
  The building was gutted, its roof destroyed, and nothing was salvageable from the ten stalls inside.
  Up to 50 firefighters wearing breathing apparatus spent two hours bringing the fire that gutted the workshop under control.
  Synonyms
  devastate, destroy, demolish, wipe out, lay waste to, ravage, consume, ruin, leave in ruins, wreck, raze, level, flatten
2British informal Cause (someone) to feel extremely upset or disappointed.
it guts me to think about what my mother and brother missed out on
Example sentencesExamples
- It was a gutting experience that led to six months off; and after that I had to go back to basics, really learn from scratch again.
- Arnold is absolutely gutted by the decision.
- To be overtaken in the final metres after dominating the race is obviously gutting.
- To have won the European title six times and not to be able to defend it this year is gutting.
- I wouldn't say it broke my heart, but it absolutely gutted me.
- "It's absolutely gutting to lose a semi-final," he adds.
- Something like this, it guts you, doesn't it?’
- I was in constant pain and had to cancel a trip I had planned, which was gutting.
- The thought of having to plead guilty - it's really gutting me.
- The Elephant man just had me in floods of tears with the sad nobility of Merrick's death, whereas Menace's uber-bleak ending gutted me so much that I ended up choking back tears.
- I think we exceeded what we expected to do out here but you go out there and you want to win and there is a gutting feeling when you lose.
- We exceeded all our expectations in getting to the final, but it was gutting to finish as losers.
- And then the students move on and the staff move out, which must be gutting, given the alternative accommodation is a purpose-built campus in Hendon.
- People take a lot of pride in their cars so to have the badge stolen is gutting.
- I know I can't ever play rugby again which is gutting, but my health comes first.
- It is gutting to hear that people will lose their jobs and I really hope that the situation can be resolved positively.
- What has gutted me the most and has really upset me is it has taken me three years to build up the CD collection.
- It gutted me as a member of the goalkeepers' union when Barthez had that bad spell of three or four games but he's come back with some unbelievable saves.
- If Holly lost out now it would be gutting.
- It is still a fertile area to explore and the failure was at least interesting, but nonetheless slightly gutting.
Synonyms
dishearten, discourage, demoralize, cast down, make dejected, make downhearted, depress, dismay, disappoint, daunt, deter, unman, unnerve, crush, sap, shake, throw, cow, subdue, undermine

Phrases

bust a gut

1informal Make a strenuous effort.
努力
a problem which nobody is going to bust a gut trying to solve
一个没人去努力解决的问题。
Example sentencesExamples
- We win together and we lose together and I knew they would be busting a gut to get the car perfect as quickly as was safely possible.
- But my concern is that our strikers should be busting a gut to score goals like that and I feel a lot of their problems are that too much work is done outside the area.
- I busted a gut to raise that money, to give myself the opportunity to climb the seven mountains.
- Sometimes we feel it's fair to give somebody a chance, sometimes it's to reward players who have bust a gut in training to improve themselves.
- I've just been busting a gut to get everything done before I go to NY tomorrow.
- A fantastic player, a good manager, an Irishman and a guy who would bust a gut for Ireland.
- One doctor said: ‘We've all busted a gut for him and we are trying to make sure we can do the right thing.’
- You are the one they look up to and try hard to impress, you are the one they will bust a gut for, you are the one they will run to when they've fallen down.
- For their part, the players are excited by the challenge, and plan to go that extra mile, run their legs off and bust a gut for the team in their application to teaching.
- You cannot play this game with nine or ten men busting a gut and a few others standing around watching them.
Synonyms
try, attempt, venture, undertake, aspire, aim, seek, set out
2informal Laugh very heartily.
开怀大笑，纵声大笑
his facial expressions and ad libs were enough to get audiences to bust a gut
他的脸部表情和脱口而出的俏皮话足以让观众开怀大笑。
Example sentencesExamples
- The dog eating the squeaky toy was simply too much… I nearly bust a gut.
- What I saw almost made me bust a gut laughing.
- Good Lord, I nearly busted a gut laughing!
- I almost bust a gut watching that comedy sketch a couple of weeks ago.
- The boys at the Harvard Club busted a gut over that gag!
- I never went five minutes without busting a gut.
- Sure, Mr. Burns was cute in a grandfatherly way, but who ever busted a gut laughing at a cigar smoking septagenerian who weighs 70 pounds soaking wet?
- Why think an awards show can make you bust a gut?
- Glancing into the audience I saw Papa just about to bust a gut laughing.
- We bust a gut and spilled our coffee and almost choked to death when we read this.
Synonyms
chuckle, chortle, guffaw, giggle, titter, snigger, snicker, cackle, howl, roar, tee-hee, burst out laughing, hoot with laughter, roar with laughter, shake with laughter, be convulsed with laughter, dissolve into laughter, split one's sides, hold one's sides, be doubled up

— one's guts out

informal Used to indicate that the specified action is done or performed as hard as possible.
拼命地，竭尽全力地
he ran his guts out and finished fourth
他拼命地跑，结果得了第四名。
Example sentencesExamples
- I wasn't getting paid and although it's not all about money you're not going to slug your guts out for nothing.
- I am satisfied with the effort of the lads today, they really tried their guts out.
- Watch out for the programme to be telecast shortly and laugh your guts out!
- Hats off to all the players currently in Finland playing their guts out for Canada.
- It's a good combination, he says - not many bands can scream their guts out and then yodel.
- But I have tried my guts out to win the tournament and in the end I blew it.
- People who work their guts out against one another in federal elections are one big, happy family here.
- I do sympathise tremendously - here you are slogging your guts out so that your family can be happy, and yet the amount of time you spend out of the home renders you a virtual stranger to them.
- These boys just went up there and played their guts out and the audience loved them all the more for it.
- The trend in the industrialised world is for people to work their guts out when young, then move to part-time working patterns or contract-based projects as life moves on.

hate someone's guts

informal Feel a strong hatred for someone.
〈非正式〉对某人恨之入骨
Example sentencesExamples
- Other economists hate your guts for selling out to the liberals.
- Those on his good side appreciated his innovative methods, his sarcasm and how hard he pushed us, those who didn't respond hated his guts.
- People give the impression that they hate his guts but he hasn't done anything to offend the public.
- I'm pretty sure my brothers and sisters hated my guts.
- I learnt that someone from my past who I thought liked me in fact hates my guts with a passion.
- Of course, all Emperors can look forward to most people in the world hating their guts.
- Then, I got an e-mail from her saying she hates my guts.
- I was going out of the house this morning when my housemaid's kid, who hates my guts, hit me in the head with a rock.
- When I went into the audience to interview people, she actually hit me and told me she hated my guts.
- The rest of the country hates his guts and knows he is an evil tyrant.
Synonyms
loathe, detest, dislike greatly, abhor, abominate, despise, execrate, feel aversion towards, feel revulsion towards, feel hostile towards, be repelled by, be revolted by, regard with disgust, not be able to bear, not be able to stand, be unable to stomach, find intolerable, shudder at, recoil from, shrink from

Origin

Old English guttas (plural), probably related to gēotan ‘pour’.

单词	gut
释义	Definition of gut in English: gut nounPlural guts ɡʌtɡət 1also gutsThe stomach or belly. 腹部；肚子 the terrible pain in his gut Example sentencesExamples His voice, deeper and from the gut, returns in this CD to a peaceable realm, to the great meditative music of the Mandingo empire. I didn't even have time to respond, my entire focus was spent on making sure my face didn't look like someone punched me in the gut. When Tom Friedman starts talking peace plans, it's usually time for either a stomach pump or a belly laugh - either way, your guts are going to be sore. All of this has got to cause a churning in his gut. All they are is a stabbing knife-like pain in the guts. You slice your wrist and it's as good as stabbing yourself in the gut. If a crocodile ate her alive, you'd imagine she'd give the rotter a good ticking off while trapped inside its guts. If you get churning guts, concentrate on relaxing your stomach muscles. His guts screamed with pain, and he was so disoriented he couldn't move until the sound of gunshots made him force himself to get up. It doesn't mean that you'll end up with six bullets in your guts. It would've taken away the pain that now twisted inside his guts. Griffin looked at his stomach, seeing that his own knife was jabbed into his guts. Patients will almost never knee you in the groin or kick you in the gut. Youth's bass lines still hit you full on in the gut, whilst Geordie's fabulously taut guitar works still works its way right inside your ears. I do still feel like I've been kicked in the gut, but I've kind of gotten used to that. If the President lined up every world leader in a line and systematically punched each of them in the gut in the name of unilateral diplomacy, would you still vote for him? Sims' basslines were jabs to the gut - physical in the extreme. There was a slight itching pain in my guts and my face burned. My students were not even afraid to try to hurt me: two boys spent a month throwing pencils at me in the middle of lessons; another child slugged me in the gut. Some angry fan punched him in the gut, injured him, and he lost the Tour. Synonyms stomach, belly, abdomen intestines, bowels, colon informal tummy, tum, insides, innards, breadbasket Australian informal bingy Medicine solar plexus 1.1Biology Medicine The lower alimentary canal or a part of this; the intestine. 〔医，生〕下消化道；下消化道的一部分；肠 microbes which naturally live in the human gut 自然存在于肠道中的细菌。 Example sentencesExamples Some of these organisms can damage the cells lining the inner surface of the gut and interfere with the normal processes of the intestines. A stoma is an artificial opening to or from the intestine (which is also known as the gut or bowel) on the abdominal wall usually created by a surgeon. Different strains infect different tissues and organs - lungs, guts, kidneys, livers, brains or reproductive systems. The cells in the brain and in the gut have receptors that respond to nicotine. In some the problem has a behavioural basis, whereas in others there may be subtle neuromuscular abnormalities of the gut. 1.2guts Entrails that have been removed or exposed in violence or by a butcher. （暴露或取出的）内脏 Example sentencesExamples I was looking down at the butchered corpse of a man whose belly had been slashed and his guts spread for some distance along the ground. In May, a processing plant in Carthage Missouri began turning turkey guts, feathers, blood and carcasses into an oil alternative. Look at the power of Wallace; it's 700 years since his guts were dug from his belly and his extremities planted around the countryside, yet there goes the sword. Cut off the heads, remove the clear coloured backbone and remove the guts to leave a large opening at the head end. Mother's guts had been literally ripped out from her stomach. Removing the guts she placed them in a separate bag lined with snow to keep them fresh. A small hand reached from behind him, ripping his belly open, spilling out his guts. My father cut the shark open, removed the guts, cut the head off, and then preserved him in ice. Imagine trying to remove the guts of a cow or chicken once every minute. People were running and screaming bodies littered the floor some turned inside out with brains and guts littering the floor. Jurgis arrives for work and is quickly trained to sweep up the guts and entrails of the slaughtered cattle, following behind the disemboweler. She watched him wrap his bloody arms around his stomach as if he was trying to hold in his guts. The locals told me that it's normal to see camels walking through the desert and their guts fall out because camel spiders eat their intestinal walls. It feels like a cannon ball has just slammed into my stomach and my guts are all strewn over the place. During slaughter some of the guts may spill onto meat. There are exploding blood packs, guts hanging out of soldiers and, that good old stylistic standby, the shift into slo-mo. I get to hunt Africa every year and without the steaks and the guts from the antelope, many African societies would have vanished already. Instinctively, my eyes roll back into my skull as I claw open the fish's belly, spilling its guts into the water. I need to be taken back and have my guts put back in the stomach where nature intended them. The last one standing, who had one hand holding his own guts in, flickered and disappeared from existence. Synonyms intestines, entrails vital organs, bodily organs, vital parts, viscera offal informal insides, innards British archaic numbles 1.3informal A fat stomach. 〈非正式〉肥胖的肚子 Example sentencesExamples I've got a few gray hairs, a bit of a gut and I've just started smoking cigars. My face was splotchy and I had this huge gut, which I've never had in my life. With his stringy gray braided ponytail and ample gut, he was more like an aging hippie than an endurance athlete. But of course to anyone listening to that conversation you would think she was commenting on my (sadly increasing) gut or on my gluttony. So if you're thinking about lazing around, remember that the result may be a sour attitude as well as a flabby gut. The way I figure it, all I have to do is get my big daddy gut down to a manageable size, and I'll be the best exotic dancer ever to grace a gas station. He is an awful, putrid man with a tattooed face and a huge gut. Fish-belly white thighs and guts are not attractive. He looks like a million guys in Brooklyn, brunette and all gut. In recent photos, however, he looked haggard and ravaged, his face a withered pumpkin atop a doughy gut. 1.4guts The inner parts or essence of something. 内部，内部物；内容，本质 the guts of a modern computer 现代电脑的内部结构。 Example sentencesExamples The car's front hood is off, exposing its iron guts - all of which are glistening with a thin coat of gasoline. It took a foreign coach to unleash the real power from within the gut of England by summoning the courage to select about seven young, black, gifted patriots. There are ten cables spilling out of a socket in the kitchen, white tubes that remind me of the guts of the robot in the Alien movie. Flex can now take a job start-to-finish, designing not only the electronic guts, but also the look and feel of products. Because of space issues, I was removing the PSU's guts and thus losing all the shielding provided by the metal chassis. When hybrid cars are given cheaper, more powerful electrical guts, their popularity will really take off. He turned the alarm over to see why it hadn't woken him up, and noticed that half of its electronic guts were strewn all over the floor. Somebody is selling a music player whose guts have been swapped with the innards of what looks like a $2 miniature toy electric guitar. The guts of the phone had been removed and in its place there was a simple red button. Like Jacques Brel before him, Elliott strips his songs of any superfluous attribute, only leaving them bare, exposing their guts, and his, for all to see. A Tom Yum soup has its characteristic guts knocked out of it, a faint savour of lemon grass lending some edge to a bland coconut milk liquor bulked up with mushrooms and a few morsels of tasteless prawn. They are commuting into New Orleans, swabbing the mold off walls, ripping the guts out of buildings, removing mountains of soggy debris. They look like the inner guts of extraterrestrial watches. 1.5gutswith modifier Used to form names attributing negative characteristics to people. …之徒，…的家伙（与含贬义的形容词一起用） what's the matter with you, misery guts? 怎么了，可怜虫？ greedy guts 贪心的家伙。 Example sentencesExamples I'm sorry I'm being such a greedy guts. Plus, he is an absolute misery guts with no apparent sense of humour. But what about all those folk who write them off as joyless misery guts? Diet expert Rachel Halkyard has some bulge-busting advice for greedy guts this Christmas. Do you live with or work with or are you married to a real misery guts? With the exception of a certain Glaswegian misery guts, just about everybody in English football would like to see him make it. 2informal often as modifier Used in reference to a feeling or reaction based on an instinctive emotional response rather than considered thought. 〈非正式〉（情感，反应）发自内心深处的；出于本能的 I had a gut feeling that something was wrong trusting his gut instinct, he went ahead and made the call I could feel it in my guts—he was out there, watching me Example sentencesExamples The following figures are not from anything I have read but are simply gut feelings. I don't think that their position, based on their gut reaction, is justifiable. Well, I've been thinking about this as objectively as possible, but it's time to get down to gut feelings. At the same time, I saw clear signs that my gut feelings weren't that far off base. But, in the end, we must listen to gut instinct, be creative, and take risks. Highly ritualized pictorial constructions, these elegant, stylish surfaces are to gut emotion as a boxing match is to a street fight. The gut reaction was based on three arguments whose wisdom had been proved by long experience. These are just emotional and gut feelings that come to me off the top of my head. The officer's intuitions, gut feelings and sixth sense about a situation are all disallowed. We commonly think of the intuition as a strong feeling, instinct, or gut reaction. However, rather than accept that this totally destroys her argument she instead chooses to ignore it in favour of her gut feelings, and urges us to do likewise. It will not be a gut reaction, but an informed decision based on the knowledge that what I want and what he wants are very different things. The question, though, is whether one's personal likes and dislikes, one's gut feelings, can honestly count as critical judgment. But you should develop the capacity to reflect on gut feelings rather than acting on them impulsively. Secondly, Dr Wiseman discovered that people who appear to have good fortune tend to make effective decisions by acting on their intuition and gut feelings. Belina's editorial choices are based more on a gut level response than on theory. Call it gut feeling or intuition, but I really think he's somewhere around there. Business decisions certainly involve mind games, not just gut feelings or pure intuition. I don't know, but my hope and my gut feeling aren't the same. I don't frankly like to base myself on instincts or gut feelings about this. Synonyms instinctive, instinctual, intuitive, impulsive, natural, basic, emotional, heartfelt, deep-seated knee-jerk, automatic, involuntary, spontaneous, unthinking 3gutsinformal Personal courage and determination; toughness of character. 〈非正式〉胆量，勇气；毅力；意志 he didn't have the guts to tell the truth Example sentencesExamples Their major concern was how a buyer should have the guts to determine the cost of a product instead of the seller, as is normally the case. They simply battle on, showing the kind of guts and determination some of their more illustrious opponents seem to lack. ‘It was a great team effort, but courage and guts only get you so far sometimes’. He also has the guts and strength of character to impress the others in the pitlane. I didn't have a lot of courage or the guts to do something bad. Someone once wrote that there are only two things needed to win the American presidency: character and guts. The difference between dreamers and achievers is grit, guts and spirit, which the former might lack but the latter have in abundance. His guts and his courage got him there in the end. He is proof that there are many young people with principles, guts and determination and it's time we started respecting them for it. The difference is that Connell's characters usually lack the guts to act on their urges. But a second half full of passion, belief, guts and mental toughness saw the Knights fight back to win in another mesmerising finale. But Campbell's determination, courage and sheer guts save the book from dull unoriginality. It might take a lot of guts for the average person to swim alongside Sand Tiger sharks, which grow to an average length of nine foot and are known for being aggressive. It was a big game, and we showed guts and character to win it. We needed lots of guts, determination and character to win the game - and we need to do that for the rest of the season. Yarnbury moved out of the bottom three as sheer guts, determination and spirit saw them through. It has taken character and guts, on and off the field, as well as some superlatively effective play. It took a lot of guts and just sheer personal strength to be out in the streets like you've seen the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators over the last week. You know, it might have helped just a little bit if Paul and others like him had shown a bit more guts a couple of years ago. And what guts it had to have taken to do what they did. Synonyms courage, courageousness, bravery, valour, backbone, nerve, fortitude, pluck, pluckiness, mettle, mettlesomeness, spirit, boldness, audacity, daring, fearlessness, hardiness, toughness, forcefulness, determination, resolve, resolution informal grit, gumption, spunk, gutsiness, gameness British informal bottle, ballsiness North American informal moxie, cojones, sand vulgar slang balls 4mass noun Fibre made from the intestines of animals, used especially for violin or racket strings or for surgical use. 肠线（由动物的肠制成，尤用于制作小提琴琴弦、网球拍或用于外科手术中） Example sentencesExamples Overwound (overspun or wire-wound) strings have a core of gut, silk, nylon, or wire wrapped in metal wire or ribbon. It's like a pear-shaped instrument, the body is covered in skin, and the strings are made of gut. The instrument itself was made of wood, with gut or horsehair strings. There's no conductor; she directs them herself… and she's strung her Strad with gut, and plays it with a classical bow. Tchaikovsky's strings were gut rather than metal and were played with little vibrato. 5A narrow passage or strait. 狭道，隘路；狭水道，狭海峡 Example sentencesExamples Various tours are available by speed boats that take you for the most spectacular views, even up the gut to laugh in the face of El Diablo. After failing to catch New on Friday, Teddy Hall went for the kill on Saturday, coming to within a canvas as the crews approached the gut. Most bumps in the Rowing-On divisions took place below the gut, leaving spectators not much more to observe than the bizarre attire of various crews. McHale was trudging through the gut ahead of me at the side of the boat when he suddenly vanished at a spot marked only by the float of his hat. verbgutting, gutted, guts ɡʌtɡət [with object] 1Remove the intestines and other internal organs from (a fish or other animal) before cooking it. 取出（鱼等动物）的内脏 Example sentencesExamples After getting a few fish each, they swam in the pond before they went back to the beach to clean and gut the fish and prepare them for dinner. I also give a detailed account of skinning and gutting a rabbit. Most importantly, he is also a very competent member of a trawler's crew, capable of gutting the fish fast enough to keep the packers happy. If I'd been a guy she would have gutted me like a fish. Another friend fainted when we gutted the rabbits and found tapeworms. If they knew it was you who turned them in, they'd gut you like a fish. Let the fishmonger scale, clean and gut the fish (I leave the head on). The deer is gutted where it lies, its innards checked for any sign of disease, before it is dragged back down the hill to the pick-up. Whilst Ingrid cuts and guts the fish, the children go into the woods to collect nuts and berries, which are just coming into season. A 12-ounce whole fish, gutted and steamed in two tablespoons of liquid, cooks in two minutes. The fish were gutted and stuffed with a spoonful of herbs, or mustard, apple, or samphire. Most people nowadays do not wring chickens' necks, pluck them, and cook them for dinner, or butcher their own pigs, or gut their own fish. The other day I took a whole sea bass, cleaned and gutted by the fishmonger, and filled its belly with a pulp of lemon grass, ginger, peppercorns and coriander. Those who have gutted a deer or skinned a rabbit might have some idea of the extreme nature of what an edged weapon can do to flesh. Jeff went to work and the fish was bled, gutted, headed and on the ice within another five minutes. He had finished gutting the rabbit and shoved the meat onto sticks, placing them into the flames. At street-side stalls that are sometimes nothing more than a bowl on the ground, fish are gutted and sold and vegetables haggled over. While all the fish in a display case has been gutted, pan-ready fish have the fins and scales removed and have been thoroughly washed. The cow did have to be gutted and tested for mad cow disease, however. To gut the fish, make a slit up the length of the belly under running water and cut off the fins with scissors. Synonyms disembowel, eviscerate, draw, dress, clean, remove the innards from, remove the guts from rare embowel, disbowel, exenterate, gralloch, paunch 1.1 Remove or destroy completely the internal parts of (a building or other structure) 清除（或清空、摧毁）（建筑物等）的内部 the fire gutted most of the factory 大火烧毁了工厂里大部分的东西。 Example sentencesExamples Despite the desperate efforts of the local inhabitants, the school building was totally gutted by the time the firefighters got to the scene. In the old city, many homes had been gutted and destroyed. Diners and workers were forced to flee a restaurant as a fire gutted the building in minutes. A family of five are having to live in one hotel room after a fire gutted their home. In February demolition work started, and the building was gutted, leaving just the shell. In the early 1980s, fire gutted the structure leaving only the later wings roofed. The fire, the cause of which is currently unknown, has gutted a building housing the vast majority of the University's computer servers and networking equipment. By this time, Mrs Hatley's old kitchen had been gutted ready for the replacement. The building was gutted, its roof destroyed, and nothing was salvageable from the ten stalls inside. In 1933, a massive fire gutted the Reichstag building in Germany. The destruction was so complete that the structure had to be gutted and removed by hand and wheelbarrow, piece by piece. The cafe was gutted by a fire last week. Forensic experts are still sifting through debris from the Newbridge Courthouse fire, which gutted the historic building last Thursday morning. Other buildings in the mill area have been gutted by fire in previous years. The couple's ancient cottage was gutted by fire a year ago, but wrangles over insurance left them unable to rebuild it and as a result they have slipped into mortgage arrears. The trend where church authorities spend large sums of money gutting old churches and destroying original features is also mentioned in critical terms. Up to 50 firefighters wearing breathing apparatus spent two hours bringing the fire that gutted the workshop under control. Police said Mr Ruane's home was totally gutted in the fire. The sole occupant of the mobile home died in the blaze, and the mobile home was gutted before the fire brigade arrived. A disused church hall next to Carshalton Library was gutted by fire in a suspected arson attack around 3.40 pm on Sunday. Synonyms devastate, destroy, demolish, wipe out, lay waste to, ravage, consume, ruin, leave in ruins, wreck, raze, level, flatten literary despoil 2British informal Cause (someone) to feel extremely upset or disappointed. it guts me to think about what my mother and brother missed out on Example sentencesExamples What has gutted me the most and has really upset me is it has taken me three years to build up the CD collection. Something like this, it guts you, doesn't it?’ I know I can't ever play rugby again which is gutting, but my health comes first. And then the students move on and the staff move out, which must be gutting, given the alternative accommodation is a purpose-built campus in Hendon. It was a gutting experience that led to six months off; and after that I had to go back to basics, really learn from scratch again. Arnold is absolutely gutted by the decision. The Elephant man just had me in floods of tears with the sad nobility of Merrick's death, whereas Menace's uber-bleak ending gutted me so much that I ended up choking back tears. "It's absolutely gutting to lose a semi-final," he adds. If Holly lost out now it would be gutting. People take a lot of pride in their cars so to have the badge stolen is gutting. I wouldn't say it broke my heart, but it absolutely gutted me. To have won the European title six times and not to be able to defend it this year is gutting. It is gutting to hear that people will lose their jobs and I really hope that the situation can be resolved positively. I think we exceeded what we expected to do out here but you go out there and you want to win and there is a gutting feeling when you lose. The thought of having to plead guilty - it's really gutting me. We exceeded all our expectations in getting to the final, but it was gutting to finish as losers. To be overtaken in the final metres after dominating the race is obviously gutting. I was in constant pain and had to cancel a trip I had planned, which was gutting. It is still a fertile area to explore and the failure was at least interesting, but nonetheless slightly gutting. It gutted me as a member of the goalkeepers' union when Barthez had that bad spell of three or four games but he's come back with some unbelievable saves. Synonyms dishearten, discourage, demoralize, cast down, make dejected, make downhearted, depress, dismay, disappoint, daunt, deter, unman, unnerve, crush, sap, shake, throw, cow, subdue, undermine Phrases bust a gut 1informal Make a strenuous effort. 努力 a problem which nobody is going to bust a gut trying to solve 一个没人去努力解决的问题。 Example sentencesExamples I've just been busting a gut to get everything done before I go to NY tomorrow. We win together and we lose together and I knew they would be busting a gut to get the car perfect as quickly as was safely possible. I busted a gut to raise that money, to give myself the opportunity to climb the seven mountains. Sometimes we feel it's fair to give somebody a chance, sometimes it's to reward players who have bust a gut in training to improve themselves. You cannot play this game with nine or ten men busting a gut and a few others standing around watching them. But my concern is that our strikers should be busting a gut to score goals like that and I feel a lot of their problems are that too much work is done outside the area. You are the one they look up to and try hard to impress, you are the one they will bust a gut for, you are the one they will run to when they've fallen down. A fantastic player, a good manager, an Irishman and a guy who would bust a gut for Ireland. One doctor said: ‘We've all busted a gut for him and we are trying to make sure we can do the right thing.’ For their part, the players are excited by the challenge, and plan to go that extra mile, run their legs off and bust a gut for the team in their application to teaching. Synonyms try, attempt, venture, undertake, aspire, aim, seek, set out 2informal Laugh very heartily. 开怀大笑，纵声大笑 his facial expressions and ad libs were enough to get audiences to bust a gut 他的脸部表情和脱口而出的俏皮话足以让观众开怀大笑。 Example sentencesExamples Sure, Mr. Burns was cute in a grandfatherly way, but who ever busted a gut laughing at a cigar smoking septagenerian who weighs 70 pounds soaking wet? I almost bust a gut watching that comedy sketch a couple of weeks ago. The dog eating the squeaky toy was simply too much… I nearly bust a gut. I never went five minutes without busting a gut. Glancing into the audience I saw Papa just about to bust a gut laughing. The boys at the Harvard Club busted a gut over that gag! Good Lord, I nearly busted a gut laughing! What I saw almost made me bust a gut laughing. We bust a gut and spilled our coffee and almost choked to death when we read this. Why think an awards show can make you bust a gut? Synonyms chuckle, chortle, guffaw, giggle, titter, snigger, snicker, cackle, howl, roar, tee-hee, burst out laughing, hoot with laughter, roar with laughter, shake with laughter, be convulsed with laughter, dissolve into laughter, split one's sides, hold one's sides, be doubled up — one's guts out informal Used to indicate that the specified action is done or performed as hard as possible. 拼命地，竭尽全力地 I've worked my guts out to get where I am today Example sentencesExamples People who work their guts out against one another in federal elections are one big, happy family here. But I have tried my guts out to win the tournament and in the end I blew it. These boys just went up there and played their guts out and the audience loved them all the more for it. I am satisfied with the effort of the lads today, they really tried their guts out. I do sympathise tremendously - here you are slogging your guts out so that your family can be happy, and yet the amount of time you spend out of the home renders you a virtual stranger to them. Watch out for the programme to be telecast shortly and laugh your guts out! The trend in the industrialised world is for people to work their guts out when young, then move to part-time working patterns or contract-based projects as life moves on. It's a good combination, he says - not many bands can scream their guts out and then yodel. I wasn't getting paid and although it's not all about money you're not going to slug your guts out for nothing. Hats off to all the players currently in Finland playing their guts out for Canada. hate someone's guts informal Feel a strong hatred for someone. 〈非正式〉对某人恨之入骨 Example sentencesExamples The rest of the country hates his guts and knows he is an evil tyrant. I was going out of the house this morning when my housemaid's kid, who hates my guts, hit me in the head with a rock. Those on his good side appreciated his innovative methods, his sarcasm and how hard he pushed us, those who didn't respond hated his guts. Other economists hate your guts for selling out to the liberals. When I went into the audience to interview people, she actually hit me and told me she hated my guts. People give the impression that they hate his guts but he hasn't done anything to offend the public. I learnt that someone from my past who I thought liked me in fact hates my guts with a passion. Then, I got an e-mail from her saying she hates my guts. Of course, all Emperors can look forward to most people in the world hating their guts. I'm pretty sure my brothers and sisters hated my guts. Synonyms loathe, detest, dislike greatly, abhor, abominate, despise, execrate, feel aversion towards, feel revulsion towards, feel hostile towards, be repelled by, be revolted by, regard with disgust, not be able to bear, not be able to stand, be unable to stomach, find intolerable, shudder at, recoil from, shrink from have someone's guts for garters humorous Punish someone severely. 〈非正式，主幽默〉严惩某人 if you breathe a word to anyone, I'll have your guts for garters Example sentencesExamples Gordon would have my guts for garters if I tried to interfere. Had Mrs Mungo's words from earlier in the morning ringing in my ear all afternoon: ‘Just you remember Mungo: if you dare put up the fees at Gordonstoun, I'll have your guts for garters.’ The resident came out to give the boy a good ticking off: ‘If my husband comes out to you, he'll have your guts for garters!’ If I tried to run a meeting of our workers like that, they would have my guts for garters and rightly so. I suppose he would have had their guts for garters, but as it was, the main perpetrators got off very lightly. She doesn't go on to say: ‘Get it wrong and I'll have your guts for garters,’ but the message is plain. The man can write rings around him and here has his guts for garters in his review of Blinded by the Right. Jackson grimaced, this wasn't good, this was really bad, and Violet would have his guts for garters, should she get wind of it. (as) rough as guts informal Lacking in refinement or sophistication. the housing was rough as guts Example sentencesExamples It sounded unpolished and the production was a bit ropey; they always sounded rough as guts. I saw her two weeks ago: she was looking rough as guts. The coffee was rough as guts though, but still better than the mud they serve at our local cafes. Their first album was a rough as guts lo-fi recording, but featured considerable verve and passion. Sure, some of these huts were rough as guts, but that was part of the deal. Origin Old English guttas (plural), probably related to gēotan 'pour'. Gut is probably related to Old English gēotan ‘to pour’. Guts was used commonly for ‘stomach, bowels’; it became more informal and also came to mean ‘force of character, courage’ from the late 19th century. The notion of ‘basic’ as in gut reaction arose in the 1960s. Rhymes abut, but, butt, cut, glut, hut, intercut, jut, Mut, mutt, phut, putt, rut, scut, shortcut, shut, slut, smut, strut, tut, undercut noun.1 phr. Definition of gut in US English: gut nounɡətɡət 1also gutsThe stomach or belly. 腹部；肚子 a painful stabbing feeling in his gut 他腹部感到的刀扎般的疼痛。 Example sentencesExamples When Tom Friedman starts talking peace plans, it's usually time for either a stomach pump or a belly laugh - either way, your guts are going to be sore. Sims' basslines were jabs to the gut - physical in the extreme. I didn't even have time to respond, my entire focus was spent on making sure my face didn't look like someone punched me in the gut. Patients will almost never knee you in the groin or kick you in the gut. Some angry fan punched him in the gut, injured him, and he lost the Tour. His voice, deeper and from the gut, returns in this CD to a peaceable realm, to the great meditative music of the Mandingo empire. Youth's bass lines still hit you full on in the gut, whilst Geordie's fabulously taut guitar works still works its way right inside your ears. If you get churning guts, concentrate on relaxing your stomach muscles. If the President lined up every world leader in a line and systematically punched each of them in the gut in the name of unilateral diplomacy, would you still vote for him? If a crocodile ate her alive, you'd imagine she'd give the rotter a good ticking off while trapped inside its guts. His guts screamed with pain, and he was so disoriented he couldn't move until the sound of gunshots made him force himself to get up. It would've taken away the pain that now twisted inside his guts. You slice your wrist and it's as good as stabbing yourself in the gut. All of this has got to cause a churning in his gut. It doesn't mean that you'll end up with six bullets in your guts. There was a slight itching pain in my guts and my face burned. Griffin looked at his stomach, seeing that his own knife was jabbed into his guts. All they are is a stabbing knife-like pain in the guts. My students were not even afraid to try to hurt me: two boys spent a month throwing pencils at me in the middle of lessons; another child slugged me in the gut. I do still feel like I've been kicked in the gut, but I've kind of gotten used to that. Synonyms stomach, belly, abdomen 1.1Medicine Biology The lower alimentary canal or a part of this; the intestine. 〔医，生〕下消化道；下消化道的一部分；肠 microbes which naturally live in the human gut 自然存在于肠道中的细菌。 Example sentencesExamples Different strains infect different tissues and organs - lungs, guts, kidneys, livers, brains or reproductive systems. In some the problem has a behavioural basis, whereas in others there may be subtle neuromuscular abnormalities of the gut. A stoma is an artificial opening to or from the intestine (which is also known as the gut or bowel) on the abdominal wall usually created by a surgeon. The cells in the brain and in the gut have receptors that respond to nicotine. Some of these organisms can damage the cells lining the inner surface of the gut and interfere with the normal processes of the intestines. 1.2guts Entrails that have been removed or exposed in violence or by a butcher. （暴露或取出的）内脏 Example sentencesExamples My father cut the shark open, removed the guts, cut the head off, and then preserved him in ice. It feels like a cannon ball has just slammed into my stomach and my guts are all strewn over the place. There are exploding blood packs, guts hanging out of soldiers and, that good old stylistic standby, the shift into slo-mo. I get to hunt Africa every year and without the steaks and the guts from the antelope, many African societies would have vanished already. She watched him wrap his bloody arms around his stomach as if he was trying to hold in his guts. Instinctively, my eyes roll back into my skull as I claw open the fish's belly, spilling its guts into the water. A small hand reached from behind him, ripping his belly open, spilling out his guts. The last one standing, who had one hand holding his own guts in, flickered and disappeared from existence. I need to be taken back and have my guts put back in the stomach where nature intended them. Imagine trying to remove the guts of a cow or chicken once every minute. Mother's guts had been literally ripped out from her stomach. People were running and screaming bodies littered the floor some turned inside out with brains and guts littering the floor. In May, a processing plant in Carthage Missouri began turning turkey guts, feathers, blood and carcasses into an oil alternative. During slaughter some of the guts may spill onto meat. Look at the power of Wallace; it's 700 years since his guts were dug from his belly and his extremities planted around the countryside, yet there goes the sword. Removing the guts she placed them in a separate bag lined with snow to keep them fresh. The locals told me that it's normal to see camels walking through the desert and their guts fall out because camel spiders eat their intestinal walls. I was looking down at the butchered corpse of a man whose belly had been slashed and his guts spread for some distance along the ground. Cut off the heads, remove the clear coloured backbone and remove the guts to leave a large opening at the head end. Jurgis arrives for work and is quickly trained to sweep up the guts and entrails of the slaughtered cattle, following behind the disemboweler. Synonyms intestines, entrails 1.3guts The internal parts or essence of something. 内部，内部物；内容，本质 the guts of a modern computer 现代电脑的内部结构。 Example sentencesExamples They look like the inner guts of extraterrestrial watches. When hybrid cars are given cheaper, more powerful electrical guts, their popularity will really take off. Somebody is selling a music player whose guts have been swapped with the innards of what looks like a $2 miniature toy electric guitar. Because of space issues, I was removing the PSU's guts and thus losing all the shielding provided by the metal chassis. The car's front hood is off, exposing its iron guts - all of which are glistening with a thin coat of gasoline. Like Jacques Brel before him, Elliott strips his songs of any superfluous attribute, only leaving them bare, exposing their guts, and his, for all to see. They are commuting into New Orleans, swabbing the mold off walls, ripping the guts out of buildings, removing mountains of soggy debris. It took a foreign coach to unleash the real power from within the gut of England by summoning the courage to select about seven young, black, gifted patriots. A Tom Yum soup has its characteristic guts knocked out of it, a faint savour of lemon grass lending some edge to a bland coconut milk liquor bulked up with mushrooms and a few morsels of tasteless prawn. The guts of the phone had been removed and in its place there was a simple red button. Flex can now take a job start-to-finish, designing not only the electronic guts, but also the look and feel of products. He turned the alarm over to see why it hadn't woken him up, and noticed that half of its electronic guts were strewn all over the floor. There are ten cables spilling out of a socket in the kitchen, white tubes that remind me of the guts of the robot in the Alien movie. 2informal often as modifier Used in reference to a feeling or reaction based on an instinctive emotional response rather than considered thought. 〈非正式〉（情感，反应）发自内心深处的；出于本能的 I had a gut feeling that something was wrong trusting his gut instinct, he went ahead and made the call I could feel it in my guts—he was out there, watching me Example sentencesExamples Well, I've been thinking about this as objectively as possible, but it's time to get down to gut feelings. It will not be a gut reaction, but an informed decision based on the knowledge that what I want and what he wants are very different things. But you should develop the capacity to reflect on gut feelings rather than acting on them impulsively. I don't know, but my hope and my gut feeling aren't the same. The officer's intuitions, gut feelings and sixth sense about a situation are all disallowed. Business decisions certainly involve mind games, not just gut feelings or pure intuition. Highly ritualized pictorial constructions, these elegant, stylish surfaces are to gut emotion as a boxing match is to a street fight. Secondly, Dr Wiseman discovered that people who appear to have good fortune tend to make effective decisions by acting on their intuition and gut feelings. But, in the end, we must listen to gut instinct, be creative, and take risks. We commonly think of the intuition as a strong feeling, instinct, or gut reaction. The gut reaction was based on three arguments whose wisdom had been proved by long experience. At the same time, I saw clear signs that my gut feelings weren't that far off base. Call it gut feeling or intuition, but I really think he's somewhere around there. The following figures are not from anything I have read but are simply gut feelings. Belina's editorial choices are based more on a gut level response than on theory. The question, though, is whether one's personal likes and dislikes, one's gut feelings, can honestly count as critical judgment. These are just emotional and gut feelings that come to me off the top of my head. I don't frankly like to base myself on instincts or gut feelings about this. I don't think that their position, based on their gut reaction, is justifiable. However, rather than accept that this totally destroys her argument she instead chooses to ignore it in favour of her gut feelings, and urges us to do likewise. Synonyms instinctive, instinctual, intuitive, impulsive, natural, basic, emotional, heartfelt, deep-seated 3gutsinformal Personal courage and determination; toughness of character. 〈非正式〉胆量，勇气；毅力；意志 she had both more brains and more guts than her husband 她不仅比她丈夫聪明，也比他更有魄力。 you just haven't got the guts to admit it 你就是没有胆量承认。 Example sentencesExamples I didn't have a lot of courage or the guts to do something bad. The difference is that Connell's characters usually lack the guts to act on their urges. The difference between dreamers and achievers is grit, guts and spirit, which the former might lack but the latter have in abundance. It might take a lot of guts for the average person to swim alongside Sand Tiger sharks, which grow to an average length of nine foot and are known for being aggressive. He also has the guts and strength of character to impress the others in the pitlane. You know, it might have helped just a little bit if Paul and others like him had shown a bit more guts a couple of years ago. But a second half full of passion, belief, guts and mental toughness saw the Knights fight back to win in another mesmerising finale. He is proof that there are many young people with principles, guts and determination and it's time we started respecting them for it. It was a big game, and we showed guts and character to win it. Yarnbury moved out of the bottom three as sheer guts, determination and spirit saw them through. It took a lot of guts and just sheer personal strength to be out in the streets like you've seen the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators over the last week. And what guts it had to have taken to do what they did. They simply battle on, showing the kind of guts and determination some of their more illustrious opponents seem to lack. ‘It was a great team effort, but courage and guts only get you so far sometimes’. Their major concern was how a buyer should have the guts to determine the cost of a product instead of the seller, as is normally the case. We needed lots of guts, determination and character to win the game - and we need to do that for the rest of the season. But Campbell's determination, courage and sheer guts save the book from dull unoriginality. It has taken character and guts, on and off the field, as well as some superlatively effective play. Someone once wrote that there are only two things needed to win the American presidency: character and guts. His guts and his courage got him there in the end. Synonyms courage, courageousness, bravery, valour, backbone, nerve, fortitude, pluck, pluckiness, mettle, mettlesomeness, spirit, boldness, audacity, daring, fearlessness, hardiness, toughness, forcefulness, determination, resolve, resolution 4Fiber made from the intestines of animals, used especially for violin or racket strings or for surgical use. 肠线（由动物的肠制成，尤用于制作小提琴琴弦、网球拍或用于外科手术中） as modifier gut strings Example sentencesExamples The instrument itself was made of wood, with gut or horsehair strings. It's like a pear-shaped instrument, the body is covered in skin, and the strings are made of gut. Tchaikovsky's strings were gut rather than metal and were played with little vibrato. There's no conductor; she directs them herself… and she's strung her Strad with gut, and plays it with a classical bow. Overwound (overspun or wire-wound) strings have a core of gut, silk, nylon, or wire wrapped in metal wire or ribbon. 5A narrow passage or strait. 狭道，隘路；狭水道，狭海峡 Example sentencesExamples McHale was trudging through the gut ahead of me at the side of the boat when he suddenly vanished at a spot marked only by the float of his hat. Various tours are available by speed boats that take you for the most spectacular views, even up the gut to laugh in the face of El Diablo. After failing to catch New on Friday, Teddy Hall went for the kill on Saturday, coming to within a canvas as the crews approached the gut. Most bumps in the Rowing-On divisions took place below the gut, leaving spectators not much more to observe than the bizarre attire of various crews. verbɡətɡət [with object] 1Take out the intestines and other internal organs of (a fish or other animal) before cooking it. 取出（鱼等动物）的内脏 Example sentencesExamples Jeff went to work and the fish was bled, gutted, headed and on the ice within another five minutes. To gut the fish, make a slit up the length of the belly under running water and cut off the fins with scissors. Whilst Ingrid cuts and guts the fish, the children go into the woods to collect nuts and berries, which are just coming into season. After getting a few fish each, they swam in the pond before they went back to the beach to clean and gut the fish and prepare them for dinner. Another friend fainted when we gutted the rabbits and found tapeworms. If they knew it was you who turned them in, they'd gut you like a fish. Let the fishmonger scale, clean and gut the fish (I leave the head on). While all the fish in a display case has been gutted, pan-ready fish have the fins and scales removed and have been thoroughly washed. Those who have gutted a deer or skinned a rabbit might have some idea of the extreme nature of what an edged weapon can do to flesh. Most people nowadays do not wring chickens' necks, pluck them, and cook them for dinner, or butcher their own pigs, or gut their own fish. The deer is gutted where it lies, its innards checked for any sign of disease, before it is dragged back down the hill to the pick-up. The other day I took a whole sea bass, cleaned and gutted by the fishmonger, and filled its belly with a pulp of lemon grass, ginger, peppercorns and coriander. The cow did have to be gutted and tested for mad cow disease, however. Most importantly, he is also a very competent member of a trawler's crew, capable of gutting the fish fast enough to keep the packers happy. A 12-ounce whole fish, gutted and steamed in two tablespoons of liquid, cooks in two minutes. I also give a detailed account of skinning and gutting a rabbit. The fish were gutted and stuffed with a spoonful of herbs, or mustard, apple, or samphire. If I'd been a guy she would have gutted me like a fish. He had finished gutting the rabbit and shoved the meat onto sticks, placing them into the flames. At street-side stalls that are sometimes nothing more than a bowl on the ground, fish are gutted and sold and vegetables haggled over. Synonyms disembowel, eviscerate, draw, dress, clean, remove the innards from, remove the guts from 1.1 Remove or destroy completely the internal parts of (a building or other structure) 清除（或清空、摧毁）（建筑物等）的内部 the fire gutted most of the factory 大火烧毁了工厂里大部分的东西。 Example sentencesExamples Police said Mr Ruane's home was totally gutted in the fire. Forensic experts are still sifting through debris from the Newbridge Courthouse fire, which gutted the historic building last Thursday morning. The fire, the cause of which is currently unknown, has gutted a building housing the vast majority of the University's computer servers and networking equipment. The sole occupant of the mobile home died in the blaze, and the mobile home was gutted before the fire brigade arrived. Other buildings in the mill area have been gutted by fire in previous years. Diners and workers were forced to flee a restaurant as a fire gutted the building in minutes. The destruction was so complete that the structure had to be gutted and removed by hand and wheelbarrow, piece by piece. In February demolition work started, and the building was gutted, leaving just the shell. A disused church hall next to Carshalton Library was gutted by fire in a suspected arson attack around 3.40 pm on Sunday. The trend where church authorities spend large sums of money gutting old churches and destroying original features is also mentioned in critical terms. By this time, Mrs Hatley's old kitchen had been gutted ready for the replacement. A family of five are having to live in one hotel room after a fire gutted their home. In 1933, a massive fire gutted the Reichstag building in Germany. The cafe was gutted by a fire last week. The couple's ancient cottage was gutted by fire a year ago, but wrangles over insurance left them unable to rebuild it and as a result they have slipped into mortgage arrears. In the early 1980s, fire gutted the structure leaving only the later wings roofed. Despite the desperate efforts of the local inhabitants, the school building was totally gutted by the time the firefighters got to the scene. In the old city, many homes had been gutted and destroyed. The building was gutted, its roof destroyed, and nothing was salvageable from the ten stalls inside. Up to 50 firefighters wearing breathing apparatus spent two hours bringing the fire that gutted the workshop under control. Synonyms devastate, destroy, demolish, wipe out, lay waste to, ravage, consume, ruin, leave in ruins, wreck, raze, level, flatten 2British informal Cause (someone) to feel extremely upset or disappointed. it guts me to think about what my mother and brother missed out on Example sentencesExamples It was a gutting experience that led to six months off; and after that I had to go back to basics, really learn from scratch again. Arnold is absolutely gutted by the decision. To be overtaken in the final metres after dominating the race is obviously gutting. To have won the European title six times and not to be able to defend it this year is gutting. I wouldn't say it broke my heart, but it absolutely gutted me. "It's absolutely gutting to lose a semi-final," he adds. Something like this, it guts you, doesn't it?’ I was in constant pain and had to cancel a trip I had planned, which was gutting. The thought of having to plead guilty - it's really gutting me. The Elephant man just had me in floods of tears with the sad nobility of Merrick's death, whereas Menace's uber-bleak ending gutted me so much that I ended up choking back tears. I think we exceeded what we expected to do out here but you go out there and you want to win and there is a gutting feeling when you lose. We exceeded all our expectations in getting to the final, but it was gutting to finish as losers. And then the students move on and the staff move out, which must be gutting, given the alternative accommodation is a purpose-built campus in Hendon. People take a lot of pride in their cars so to have the badge stolen is gutting. I know I can't ever play rugby again which is gutting, but my health comes first. It is gutting to hear that people will lose their jobs and I really hope that the situation can be resolved positively. What has gutted me the most and has really upset me is it has taken me three years to build up the CD collection. It gutted me as a member of the goalkeepers' union when Barthez had that bad spell of three or four games but he's come back with some unbelievable saves. If Holly lost out now it would be gutting. It is still a fertile area to explore and the failure was at least interesting, but nonetheless slightly gutting. Synonyms dishearten, discourage, demoralize, cast down, make dejected, make downhearted, depress, dismay, disappoint, daunt, deter, unman, unnerve, crush, sap, shake, throw, cow, subdue, undermine Phrases bust a gut 1informal Make a strenuous effort. 努力 a problem which nobody is going to bust a gut trying to solve 一个没人去努力解决的问题。 Example sentencesExamples We win together and we lose together and I knew they would be busting a gut to get the car perfect as quickly as was safely possible. But my concern is that our strikers should be busting a gut to score goals like that and I feel a lot of their problems are that too much work is done outside the area. I busted a gut to raise that money, to give myself the opportunity to climb the seven mountains. Sometimes we feel it's fair to give somebody a chance, sometimes it's to reward players who have bust a gut in training to improve themselves. I've just been busting a gut to get everything done before I go to NY tomorrow. A fantastic player, a good manager, an Irishman and a guy who would bust a gut for Ireland. One doctor said: ‘We've all busted a gut for him and we are trying to make sure we can do the right thing.’ You are the one they look up to and try hard to impress, you are the one they will bust a gut for, you are the one they will run to when they've fallen down. For their part, the players are excited by the challenge, and plan to go that extra mile, run their legs off and bust a gut for the team in their application to teaching. You cannot play this game with nine or ten men busting a gut and a few others standing around watching them. Synonyms try, attempt, venture, undertake, aspire, aim, seek, set out 2informal Laugh very heartily. 开怀大笑，纵声大笑 his facial expressions and ad libs were enough to get audiences to bust a gut 他的脸部表情和脱口而出的俏皮话足以让观众开怀大笑。 Example sentencesExamples The dog eating the squeaky toy was simply too much… I nearly bust a gut. What I saw almost made me bust a gut laughing. Good Lord, I nearly busted a gut laughing! I almost bust a gut watching that comedy sketch a couple of weeks ago. The boys at the Harvard Club busted a gut over that gag! I never went five minutes without busting a gut. Sure, Mr. Burns was cute in a grandfatherly way, but who ever busted a gut laughing at a cigar smoking septagenerian who weighs 70 pounds soaking wet? Why think an awards show can make you bust a gut? Glancing into the audience I saw Papa just about to bust a gut laughing. We bust a gut and spilled our coffee and almost choked to death when we read this. Synonyms chuckle, chortle, guffaw, giggle, titter, snigger, snicker, cackle, howl, roar, tee-hee, burst out laughing, hoot with laughter, roar with laughter, shake with laughter, be convulsed with laughter, dissolve into laughter, split one's sides, hold one's sides, be doubled up — one's guts out informal Used to indicate that the specified action is done or performed as hard as possible. 拼命地，竭尽全力地 he ran his guts out and finished fourth 他拼命地跑，结果得了第四名。 Example sentencesExamples I wasn't getting paid and although it's not all about money you're not going to slug your guts out for nothing. I am satisfied with the effort of the lads today, they really tried their guts out. Watch out for the programme to be telecast shortly and laugh your guts out! Hats off to all the players currently in Finland playing their guts out for Canada. It's a good combination, he says - not many bands can scream their guts out and then yodel. But I have tried my guts out to win the tournament and in the end I blew it. People who work their guts out against one another in federal elections are one big, happy family here. I do sympathise tremendously - here you are slogging your guts out so that your family can be happy, and yet the amount of time you spend out of the home renders you a virtual stranger to them. These boys just went up there and played their guts out and the audience loved them all the more for it. The trend in the industrialised world is for people to work their guts out when young, then move to part-time working patterns or contract-based projects as life moves on. hate someone's guts informal Feel a strong hatred for someone. 〈非正式〉对某人恨之入骨 Example sentencesExamples Other economists hate your guts for selling out to the liberals. Those on his good side appreciated his innovative methods, his sarcasm and how hard he pushed us, those who didn't respond hated his guts. People give the impression that they hate his guts but he hasn't done anything to offend the public. I'm pretty sure my brothers and sisters hated my guts. I learnt that someone from my past who I thought liked me in fact hates my guts with a passion. Of course, all Emperors can look forward to most people in the world hating their guts. Then, I got an e-mail from her saying she hates my guts. I was going out of the house this morning when my housemaid's kid, who hates my guts, hit me in the head with a rock. When I went into the audience to interview people, she actually hit me and told me she hated my guts. The rest of the country hates his guts and knows he is an evil tyrant. Synonyms loathe, detest, dislike greatly, abhor, abominate, despise, execrate, feel aversion towards, feel revulsion towards, feel hostile towards, be repelled by, be revolted by, regard with disgust, not be able to bear, not be able to stand, be unable to stomach, find intolerable, shudder at, recoil from, shrink from Origin Old English guttas (plural), probably related to gēotan ‘pour’. noun.1 phr.
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