entrails
entrails 英 [ˈentreɪlz] 美 [ˈɛnˌtrelz, -trəlz]
n. 内脏；肠；（物体的）内部
名词复数:entrails
- Use the word entrails when you want to refer — in a not too gory way — to the internal organs of a person or animal, particularly a dead one.
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- n. 内脏；肠；（物体的）内部
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1. That slave girl may be able to pickle locusts and read omens in animal entrails, but she also knows how it feels to kiss your husband in the dark.
那个小女奴也许会腌蚱蜢，能从动物的内脏中读出征兆，但她也知道在黑暗中吻你的丈夫的感觉。
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2. But in the bad old days people who wanted an accurate picture of the days to come would consult a soothsayer who poked through chicken entrails, or looked to the stars.
但是在过去的苦日子里，人们要想准确预知未来，就得向预言家求神问卜，他们要么捅穿小鸡的内脏、要么观察天象，从而得出结论。
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3. All the alien innards in the film were actually sheep brains, raspberry jam and chicken entrails.
照片中所有的外星人内脏，其实是羊脑，木莓酱和鸡肠。
- entrails (n.) "internal parts of animal bodies," c. 1300, from Old French entrailles (12c.), from Late Latin intralia "inward parts, intestines" (8c.), from altered form of Latin interanea, noun use of neuter plural of interaneus "internal, that which is within," from inter "between, among" (from PIE *enter "between, among," comparative of root *en "in").
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