liver
n. 肝脏, 生活者, 居民 [医] 肝
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A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
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肝脏
可数 不可数 医学Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
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This organ, as taken from animals used as food.
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可数 不可数I'd like some goose liver pate.
You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.
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A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver.
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Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
可数 废旧 不可数 化学He gave his horse some liver of antimony.
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Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
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Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
Someone who is alive: one of the living.
Thou king of heaven, which […] Dost see the secret of each livers heart.
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Someone who lives (usually in a specified way).
Someone who lives in a particular place; an inhabitant, a dweller.
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Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
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comparative form of live: more live
Seeing things on a big screen somehow makes them seem liver.
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From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”), West Frisian lever (“liver”), Dutch lever (“liver”), German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish lever (“liver”) (the last three from Old Norse lifr (“liver”)). Related to live.
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