1gut reaction/feeling/instinctinformalINSTINCT a reaction or feeling that you are sure is right, although you cannot give a reason for it 本能的反应/本能的感觉/直觉
He had a gut feeling that Sarah was lying.
他凭直觉感到萨拉在撒谎。
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gut reaction/feeling/instinct• I have a gut feeling that the old partnerships between nature and culture have momentarily slipped out of our reach.• It was just a gut feeling, a sense of unease.• It is more a gut feeling-a visceraldistrust of foreigners.• For the ordinaryviewer, logicalargument gives way to his or her gut reactions and personal experience in responding to people.• But my gut reaction was that, despite his reputation for being hottempered, he was a friendly, likable child.• Personal reflections My gut reaction has always been against the placing of bolts, and I've never used them.• We worked on gut feeling and it was very difficult to control and manage all the development work because of the technology involved.• Malespeaker There's gut feeling amongst the officers on the ground that it may be drugs related.
2COURAGE 勇气guts[plural] informalBRAVE the courage and determination you need to do something difficult or unpleasant 〔做困难或不愉快的事情所需要的〕勇气,魄力,决心
It takes guts to start a new business on your own.
自己开公司是需要勇气的。
have the guts (to do something)
No one had the guts to tell Paul what a mistake he was making.
没有人敢告诉保罗他这是在犯什么样的错误。
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have the guts (to do something)• The writer didn't have the guts to put a name to it!• You didn't have the guts!• Didn't have the guts to finish me of l; did you?• Besides, he wouldn't have the guts.• Wouldn't have the guts, you'd say.• Conservative Members know what is in store for them when they have the guts to call the general election.• Nobody else would have the guts.• Or do you have the guts to walk one blockeast and show the 7-Eleven?
3inside your body 体内
a)guts [plural]HBA all the organs in someone’s body, especially when they have come out of their body 内脏
There were blood and guts all over the place.
满地都是血和内脏器官。
b)HBA[countableC] the tube through which food passes from your stomach 肠,肠道SYN intestine
It can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut.
食物通过肠道有时需要72个小时。
4stomach 肚子 [countableC] informal someone’s stomach, especially when it is large 肚子〔尤指大肚子〕SYN belly
He felt as if someone had just kicked him in the gut.
他感觉好像有人踢了他肚子一脚。
Phil has a huge beer gut (=unattractive fat stomach caused by drinking too much beer).
8.work/sweat your guts out (also slog your guts outBritish EnglishBrE) informal to work very hard 拼命干,努力做
9at gut levelINSTINCTif you know something at gut level, you feel sure about it, though you could not give a reason for it 凭直觉,本能地
She knew at gut level that he was guilty.
直觉告诉她,他有罪。
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at gut level• Intellectualconviction is nothing like feeling at gut level.• She knew at gut level that he was lying.• For one thing, this new record hits you straightat gut level the first time.
10.I’ll have somebody’s guts for gartersBritish EnglishBrE informalPUNISH used to say that you would like to punish someone severely for something they have done 我要抽某人的筋,我要扒某人的皮〔表示要严惩某人〕
gut• Hector said forcefully and directly to my father, making my gutsjump.• He hit me right in the gut.• The sterilisation of the gut by the washout can even prevent the cleavage.• We can follow gastrulation in the early development of the sea-urchin and actually see the gut forming.• Like jellyfish, they have only one opening to their gut through which they both take in food and ejectwaste.• But for those with guts, some of the highest yields around can be found here -- and even an occasionalwindfall.
beer gut• At only seventeen, Lonny already had the beginnings of a beer gut.• His beer gut was popping the buttons on his shirt.
gut• Winding down I gave a firmstrike only to find that I had missed the take, I was gutted.• Gut and clean all the fish before cooking.• Now they've been given a derelict school building, gutted by fire, for their new communityassociation.• The hotel which had been gutted by fire last year, re-opened for business during August.• The Sunday night fire gutted St. Mary's church.• Democrats have gutted the anti-crime bill.• Passage came after two amendments to gut the bill were defeated.• When I came back from fishing yesterday you were beside me in the lean-togutting the catch with me.