guts

valor, agallas

Coraje para hacer algo difícil, aterrador o mal visto por los demás.

En inglés sencillo: The courage to do something difficult, frightening, or unpopular.

• You have guts.
• It took guts to speak up.
• Did he have the guts to tell her?

Cómo se usa: have the guts to do something (She had the guts to challenge the boss.); it takes guts to do something (It takes guts to admit you were wrong.)

Sinónimos: courage, nerve, bravery

Antónimos: cowardice

Expresiones frecuentes: have guts, take guts, guts to do something

tripas, entrañas

Órganos del interior del abdomen, especialmente los intestinos.

En inglés sencillo: The organs inside the belly, especially the intestines.

• He removed the fish's guts.
• The wound exposed the animal's guts.
• She cleaned the guts from the kitchen sink.

Sinónimos: entrails, innards

Expresiones frecuentes: fish guts, spill someone’s guts, remove the guts

entrañas, interior

Partes principales del interior de algo, o detalles que permiten que funcione.

En inglés sencillo: The main parts inside something, or the details that make it work.

• He understands the guts of the business.
• Removing the cover exposed the computer's guts.
• We need to examine the guts of this system.

Cómo se usa: the guts of something (The technician showed me the guts of the machine.)

Sinónimos: inner workings, core

Expresiones frecuentes: guts of something, computer guts, machine’s guts

intestinos, tripas

Tubos largos dentro del cuerpo por los que pasa la comida después de salir del estómago.

En inglés sencillo: The long tubes inside bodies that food passes through after leaving the stomach.

• These bacteria live in animals' guts.
• The fish guts were removed before cooking.
• Healthy guts help animals digest food.

Sinónimos: intestines, bowels

Expresiones frecuentes: healthy guts, animal guts, fish guts

sentimientos íntimos

Tus pensamientos y sentimientos más privados.

En inglés sencillo: Your most private thoughts and feelings.

• I spilled my guts to her.
• He poured his guts into a long letter.
• After years of silence, she finally spilled her guts.

Cómo se usa: spill your guts to someone (She spilled her guts to her closest friend.)

Sinónimos: innermost feelings

Expresiones frecuentes: spill your guts, pour your guts

aguantar, perseverar

Seguir adelante en una situación difícil, mostrando valor y determinación.

En inglés sencillo: To keep going through something difficult by showing courage and determination.

• She decided to guts it out.
• He gutsed out a narrow victory.
• They were gutsing it out through the final minutes.

Cómo se usa: guts something out (She gutsed the final mile out despite her sore ankle.); guts it out (He had to guts it out until help arrived.)

Sinónimos: persevere, tough it out

Antónimos: quit

Expresiones frecuentes: guts it out, guts out something