gullet: [14] Latin gula meant ‘throat’. It was a descendant of Indo-European *gel- ‘swallow’, which also produced German kehle ‘throat’ and English glut and glutton. Gula passed into Old French as gole or goule (whence modern French gueule ‘mouth’), where it formed the basis of a diminutive form goulet, acquired by English as gullet (and later, in the 16th century, as gully, which originally meant ‘gullet’). The English heraldic term gules ‘red’ [14] also comes from Old French gole, goule, in the specialized sense ‘red fur neckpiece’. => glut, glutton, gules, gully
gullet (n.)
"passage from the mouth of an animal to the stomach," c. 1300 (as a surname), from Old French golet "neck (of a bottle); gutter; bay, creek," diminutive of gole "throat, neck" (Modern French gueule), from Latin gula "throat," also "appetite," from PIE root *gwele- (3) "to swallow" (cognates: Latin gluttire "to gulp down, devour," glutto "a glutton;" Old English ceole "throat;" Old Church Slavonic glutu "gullet," Russian glot "draught, gulp;" Old Irish gelim "I devour").
实用例句
1. Do you suppose I'm going with that blow burning in my gullet?
你以为我喉头挨了那火辣辣的一拳,就一走了事?
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2. A piece of food got stuck in his gullet.
一块食物哽在他的喉头.
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3. She has a piece of bread sticked in her gullet.
一块面包卡在她的食管了.
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4. What sticks in my gullet is the way he always takes the best seat.
使我感到厌恶是他老是抢占最好的座位.
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5. And again I saw him standing in the refectory and the rubies pouring down his gullet.
