[N-COUNT 可数名词]肠 Your bowels are the tubes in your body through which digested food passes from your stomach to your anus.
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[N-PLURAL 复数名词]大便 You can refer in a polite way to someone getting rid of the waste from their body by saying that they move, open, or empty their bowels .
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[N-PLURAL 复数名词]内部;深处 You can refer to the parts deep inside something such as the earth, a building, or a machine as the bowels of that thing.
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[HUMOROUS or LITERARY 幽默或文]
...deep in the bowels of the earth...
在地心深处
Lyn went off into the dark bowels of the building.
林恩进入了这座漆黑的建筑物的内部。
Oxford
bowel/ˈbaʊəl; NAmEˈbaʊəl/noun1[countable , usually plural ]the tube along which food passes after it has been through the stomach, especially the end where waste is collected before it is passed out of the body 肠◆( medical 医) to empty/move/open your bowels(= to pass solid waste out of the body)解大便◆bowel cancer/cancer of the bowel肠癌2the bowels of sth[plural ]( literary) the part that is deepest inside sth 内部最深处◆A rumble came from the bowels of the earth(= deep underground).从地下深处传来隆隆的响声。bowelbowelsbowel/ˈbaʊəl; NAmEˈbaʊəl/
LDC
bowelbow‧el /ˈbaʊəl/ ●○○ noun
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1bowels [plural] the system of tubes inside your body where food is made into solid waste material and through which it passes out of your body → intestinemove/empty/open your bowels (=get rid of solid waste from your body)2[singular] one part of this system of tubes: cancer of the bowel3a bowel movement formal the act of getting rid of solid waste from your body4the bowels of something literary the lowest or deepest part of somethingthe bowels of the earth (=deep under the ground)
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