gut

腹、おなか

胸の下にある体の前側の部分。特に、大きく出た腹をいう。

やさしい英語で： The front part of your body below your chest, especially when it is large.

• His shirt barely covered his gut.
• He wants to lose his beer gut.
• The boxer took a punch in the gut.

類義語： belly, stomach, abdomen

よく使う表現： beer gut, big gut, in the gut

直感、本能

意識して考えなくても、何かを感じたり分かったりする内なる感覚。

やさしい英語で： The part of you that feels or knows something without conscious thought.

• My gut told me to leave.
• She knew in her gut that something was wrong.
• Do you trust your gut when making decisions?

類義語： instinct, intuition

よく使う表現： trust your gut, in your gut, listen to your gut

楽な授業

学校や大学で、ほとんど努力せずに受けられる授業。

やさしい英語で： A school or college course that requires very little effort.

• Everyone says that course is a gut.
• He took a gut to earn extra credits.
• She chose two guts for her final semester.

類義語： easy course

よく使う表現： a gut course, take a gut, easy gut

内部を取り壊す、骨抜きにする

内部や最も重要な部分を取り除いたり壊したりする。

やさしい英語で： To remove or destroy the inside of something or its most important parts.

• They plan to gut the house.
• The fire gutted the old theater.
• Lawmakers gutted the bill by removing its strongest protections.

類義語： strip, hollow out

よく使う表現： gut a building, gut a house, gut a bill

内臓を取り除く、はらわたを抜く

普通は調理する前に、動物の体内から臓器を取り除く。

やさしい英語で： To remove the organs from inside an animal, usually before cooking it.

• You need to gut the fish first.
• He gutted the trout by the river.
• Can you clean and gut these fish for me?

類義語： eviscerate

よく使う表現： gut a fish, gut a trout, gut an animal, gut a deer

ひどく落胆させる、打ちのめす

人をひどくがっかりさせたり、深く悲しませたりする。

やさしい英語で： To make someone feel extremely disappointed or upset.

• The defeat gutted the team.
• Losing that chance really gutted me.
• It gutted her to hear that the trip was canceled.

類義語： devastate, crush, dishearten

よく使う表現： gut someone, gut the fans, gut the team

直感的な、本能的な

じっくり考えるよりも、強い内なる感覚に基づく。

やさしい英語で： Based on a strong inner feeling rather than careful thought.

• My gut feeling is that we should wait.
• Her first gut reaction was to refuse.
• He trusted his gut instinct and chose the quieter road.

類義語： instinctive, intuitive

反対語： reasoned, calculated

よく使う表現： gut feeling, gut reaction, gut instinct, gut response

ガット製の、腸でできた

動物の腸でできたもの。特に楽器やラケットの弦についていう。

やさしい英語で： Made from the intestines of an animal, especially when used for musical or racket strings.

• The violin has gut strings.
• Some tennis players prefer natural gut strings.
• Gut strings can produce a warm sound.

よく使う表現： gut strings, gut string, gut cord