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feces 和 stool 有什么区别?如果难以说明的话,请教我一下例句。
- 英语 (美国)
A "stool" is one piece or unit of "feces".
("feces" is non-countable.
...Or technically it's supposed to be plural, but anymore it's widely used as a non-countable noun, because in the average person's mind it's synonymous with "poop")
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- 英语 (美国)
The short answer:
Both stool and feces mean human waste (大便). "Stool" is a euphemism (婉曲表現) for feces. Feces is a more scientific word.
The long answer:
"stool" refers almost exclusively to human feces. Feces on the other hand can refer to "bodily waste discharged through the anus". "Feces" can refer to bodily waste from any animal with an anus, but mostly it is used for human bodily waste.
"stool" when it means "feces" comes from the word "stool" for the seat people use when they sit down or squat on to discharge waste. Dogs have feces, but they do not sit on stools. We use the word "stool" because it seems impolite to talk about feces, poop, shit, etc.
@us4gi is correct to point out that "feces" is not a countable noun. We speak of a "sample of feces". "Stool" is a countable noun. We speak of a stool, or a stool sample, or of two stools, etc. However, both "stool" and "feces" refer to "a discharge of bodily waste" and not just a part of that discharge.
Hope this helps.
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