bile
名词 n.
动词 v.
发音 bīl
英文释义
名词 n.
- 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.
- A boil (kind of swelling).
- Bitterness of temper; ill humour; irascibility.
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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.
动词 v.
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Pronunciation spelling of boil.
— We pretty near biled ourselves and Miss Euly done got her bes' pink apron stained, an' I dropped Sis Suky's big kitchen spoon in de hogshead of sand […]
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
From Middle French bile, from Latin bīlis (“bile”).
Partially displaced native English gall (“bile”), from Middle English galle, from Old English galla, ġealla (“gall, bile”).
Partially displaced native English gall (“bile”), from Middle English galle, from Old English galla, ġealla (“gall, bile”).
词源 2
Obsolete form of boil. Akin to Dutch buil and German Beule, all from Proto-Germanic *būlǭ.
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