not have the stomach for something
stomach
verb[ Tusually in negatives ]
uk /ˈstʌm.ək/ us /ˈstʌm.ək/
to be able to accept an unpleasant idea or watch something unpleasant: 能够容忍，承受得住（令人不快的想法或景象）
He can't stomach the idea that Peter might be the next chairman.他一想到彼得可能会出任下届主席就很不舒服。
She found the violence in the film hard to stomach.她觉得这部电影中的暴力场面令人难以忍受。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tolerating and enduring
bear with someone
bearable
bearably
bide
come to terms with somethingidiom
put up with something/someone
resign
resign yourself to something
resignedly
ride something out
rough
sit
struggle
sweat it outidiom
tolerance
tough
tough something out
wait
wait something out
weather the stormidiom

stomach | American Dictionary

stomach
noun[ C ]
us/ˈstʌm·ək/pluralstomachs
biology
an organ in the body where food is digested
Your stomach is also the front part of your body near the waist.
Stomach can also mean desire or an interest in doing something:
I used to watch the TV news all the time, but I no longer have the stomach for it.
stomach
verb[ T ]
us/ˈstʌm·ək/
to accept or be able to deal with something that causes you difficulty:
Vernon was simply too unreliable, and after awhile we couldn’t stomach his behavior.

Examples of stomach

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Proportion of empty stomachs varied by species, but not by season.
We compared the germinability of seeds collected from fish stomachs, with those collected from the lower intestines.
Samples of the parasitized stomachs and intestines were removed and immediately fixed in formalin.
We also studied how the total number of plant species increased according to the number of analysed stomachs, classified randomly.
On board, the stomachs and spiral valves were collected, labelled and preserved on ice before examination.
The stomachs were processed and examined with a stereomicroscope.
Flowers constituted 5% of the food, occurring in 50% of the stomachs.
We have found various parts of consumed fishes in almost all the stomachs of adult individuals of this species.
All food types were observed in almost all of the stomachs.
Most of the stomachs (60%) examined in 2000 were empty, while others were only partially filled with remains of crustaceans, possibly pink shrimp, and unidentified fish.
The advantages of using stomaching rather than sonication were that more bacteria were recovered and cells were not misshapen due to the disruptiveness of the technique (data not shown).
Co-occurrences of foods in stomachs and feces of fruit-eating birds.
Frequency of arthropods in stomachs of tropical hummingbirds.
The majority of stomachs examined are empty, while remains from scats permit identification of prey only in broad taxonomic terms and do not include more digestible prey items.
In paca, females had heavier stomachs than males and ate more exocarp and seeds when 67-89% of them were gestating and births were at a minimum (8.6%).
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Collocations withstomach

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These are words often used in combination with stomach.

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empty stomach
One can't ask them to dedicate themselves to work with an emptystomach.
stomach ailment
This indicated a stomachailment of the kind he had suspected.
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