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Apoplexy is an old name for a sudden illness in the brain that takes away your power to move or think — what doctors now almost always call a stroke. You will still meet it in older books and in writing about medical history; in ordinary talk today it is rather rare for the illness itself. Though actually, people stretch it: “he nearly had apoplexy” often means he became wildly angry, as if the shock would strike him down. That looser use is quite common; the tidy medical sense is the older one this entry is about.
中風（舊稱；現在多說 stroke 或「腦中風」）
組成Late Middle English from Old French apoplexie, from Late Latin apoplexia, from Ancient Greek ἀποπληξία (apoplēxía, “madness; apoplexy, paralysis”), from ἀποπλήσσω (apoplḗssō, “to cripple by a stroke”) + -ία. The Greek picture is of being struck down.
同家族的字
- apoplecticthe adjective: of the illness, or (loosely) red-faced with rage
原始詞典資料3 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。
apoplexynoun/ˈæp.əˌplɛk.si/
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datedmedicinesciencesUnconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.
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datedmedicinesciencesUnconsciousness or incapacity resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage or stroke.
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informalA state of intense anger; uncontrollable fury so intense as to have effects like a stroke.
- That message sent him into a fit of apoplexy.
- Ten Straight White Males die of a mysterious disease and the nation has apoplexy — Headlines — TV Reports — Sympathy. MONEY comes pouring in and there was no discussion about where to find it.
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。