词组 | bearings |
释义 | bearings noun the stomach AUSTRALIA, 1943 Suggested derivations all seem based on the body as a machine. However, it is possible that this is from a sense of disorientation after vomiting, thus confusing the losing of the contents of your stomach with a loss of bearings.▶ too many bearings on it a situation too complicated to explain CANADA This phrase uses a nautical term for location-finding, “bearings” (i.e. from a compass), metaphorically.
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