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Doctors amputate when a part of the body is so badly hurt, or so sick, that keeping it would put the person’s life in danger, or would never work again. In a hospital operation they cut the arm, leg, finger, or toe off, , as a last step — not as a small everyday treatment. People also stretch the word: a company might “amputate” a failing team, meaning they cut it away to save the rest. Though actually, careful speakers still feel that stretch; the real picture is a body, not a budget. Older Latin used the same verb for cutting branches off a tree, but English no longer uses amputate that way.
組成From Latin amputō, “to prune, cut away.” The old “cut branches off a tree” meaning died out; the modern English verb is about a body part. Uses not about a limb are treated as a picture of that medical sense.
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- amputationthe noun — the act, or the result, of amputating
- amputeea person who has had a limb amputated
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
amputateverb/ˈæmpjʊteɪt/
- 1
obsoleteTo cut off, to prune.
- 2
To surgically remove a part of the body, especially a limb.
- The surgeon had to amputate the patient’s leg to save his life.
- Several soldiers had limbs amputated after the battle.
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