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    /əˈbɔːrʃən/ · /əˈbɔːʃən/

    A pregnancy ended on purpose by a medical operation, so that no baby is born.

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    複數 abortions

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核心畫面

You can picture abortion as a medical operation that stops a pregnancy on purpose, so that a baby is not born. The word itself carries that idea: something that was on its way to being born is turned away from it.

可以想成：abortion 是一種刻意中止懷孕的醫療手術，讓胎兒不會出生。這個字本身就帶著這層意思——一個原本正走向…更多收起可以想成：abortion 是一種刻意中止懷孕的醫療手術，讓胎兒不會出生。這個字本身就帶著這層意思——一個原本正走向「出生」的過程，被引導離開了那條路。

From the word’s history

From Latin abortionem, a noun from aboriri 'to miscarry, fail, pass away', which is ab- 'away from, amiss' + oriri 'to rise, come into being, be born'. So the root literally points at 'away from being born' — the core sense of a pregnancy that does not reach birth.

來自拉丁文 abortionem，源自動詞 aboriri（流產、失敗、消逝）；這個動詞由 ab-（離開、偏離）＋ oriri（升起、開始存在、出生）組成。所以字根字面上就是「離開出生」——正對應核心意思：一個沒有走到出生的懷孕。

etymonline.com/word/abortion (ab- + oriri 'be born')

原始詞典資料7 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

abortionnoun/əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/

  • 1

    medicinesciencesThe expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.

    • Swines-bread, so used, doth not onely speed / A tardy labour; but (without great heed) / If over it a Child-great Woman stride, / Instant abortion often doth betide.
    • At any time after impregnation, abortion may take place: it is one of the most common complaints of pregnancy, whence it is a matter of no small consequence that every practitioner should well understand it.
  • 2

    medicinesciencesThe expulsion from the womb of a foetus or embryo before it is fully developed, with loss of the foetus.

    • Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.
    • It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.
  • 3

    archaicAn aborted foetus; an abortus.

    • ‘It seems too hairy for an abortion, and too small for a mature birth.’
    • The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town.
  • 4

    A misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.

    • Insomuch that I do honestly believe, there can be no place in the world, where such intolerable abortions, begotten of the sculptor’s chisel, are to be found in such profusion, as in Rome.
    • His voice was the most pitiable abortion of a voice I had ever heard.
  • 5

    Failure or abandonment of a project, promise, goal etc.

    • The returning good sense of our country threatens abortion to their hopes, & they believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes.
    • The transfer or loss of the project manager before the project is completed will result in lost continuity and delay or the abortion of the project and/or the report.
  • 6

    biologynatural-sciencesArrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

  • 7

    The cessation of an illness or disease at a very early stage.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。