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- spleen and stomach (digestive organs in TCM)
- preferences
- one's taste (e.g. in literature)
Trad. 敗胃
- (of food or medicine) to impair digestion; to suppress appetite
- (fig.) (of some objectionable aspect of sth) to cause one to lose interest; to put one off
- (medicine) to give or receive gastric lavage; to get one's stomach pumped
Trad. 開胃
- to whet the appetite
- appetizing
- to amuse oneself at sb's expense
- to tease
- (coll.) to keep sb in suspense
- to tantalize
- to keep on tenterhooks
Trad. 小鳥胃
- (fig.) small appetite; sb with a small appetite
Trad. 不傷脾胃
- lit. doesn't hurt the spleen or the stomach
- fig. something that is not critical