gall
- n.
- 胆汁，五倍子，苦味，肿痛，恼怒，磨损处
- vt.
- 烦恼，屈辱，磨伤
- vi.
- 被磨伤
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原始词根
词源说明
From Middle English galle, from Old English ġealla, galla, from Proto-West Germanic *gallā, from Proto-Germanic *gallǭ.
The figurative senses (e.g., impudence, brazenness, chutzpah) are related to the literal sense (i.e., bile) via the lasting linguocultural effects of humorism, which governed Western medicine for many centuries before the advent of scientific medicine.
Related to Dutch gal, German Galle, Swedish galle, galla, Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ). Also remotely related with yellow and gold.
释义（英文）
- (uncountable) Impudence or brazenness; temerity; chutzpah.
- (anatomy, archaic, countable) A gallbladder.
- (physiology, archaic, uncountable) Bile, especially that of an animal; the greenish
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词源说明
From Middle English galle, from Old English gealla (“a fretted spot on the skin”), from Proto-West Germanic *gallō, from Proto-Germanic *gallô (“infirmity, swelling, lesion”).
释义（英文）
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词源说明
From Middle English galle, from Old French galle, from Latin galla (“oak-apple”).