1. 1膽汁;(比喻)怨氣/尖酸刻薄的話

    Bile is a bitter, yellow-green liquid made by the liver that helps the body digest fat. The word is also used figuratively for bitter anger or harsh, nasty words — 'he spat out bile' means he said something very hostile and angry.

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同家族的字

  • biliousthe adjective form, meaning sick from too much bile, or bad-tempered

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Bilename

  • 1

    A Bantu language spoken in Nigeria.

bilenoun詞源 1/baɪl/

  • 1

    A bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion.

  • 2

    Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.

  • 3

    Either of two of the four humours, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology.

    • I shall tire of my Journal if it is to contain nothing but biles and plasters and unguents.
    • He spake out of the Pythonesse, Act. 16. 17. brought downe fire from heauen, and consumed Iobs sheepe 7000. and his seruants, raised a storme, strooke the house wherein his sonnes and daughters feasted with their elder brother, smote the foure corners of it, with the ruine whereof they all were destroyed, and perished: and ouerspread the body of that holy Saint their father with botches[t] and biles from the sole of his foot to the crowne of his head.

bilenoun詞源 2/baɪl/

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    obsoleteA boil (kind of swelling).

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