- 1斷裂的、破裂的；（骨頭）骨折的
If something is fractured, it is broken or cracked. Doctors use it constantly for bones: a fractured wrist is a bone that has cracked or snapped. The bone may still be in one piece, with a line through it, or it may have come apart — both can be called fractured. People also use it of , skulls, voices (when the sound breaks). And they stretch it, especially in news: a fractured friendship, a fractured country, a fractured coalition — meaning the whole has cracks and is no longer working as one. Fracture is the noun and the verb; fractured is the result, or the past: she fractured her ankle. Though actually, fractured is not the same as smashed to bits. A fracture is often still one thing, with a break in it.
From the word’s history
fracture + -ed; fracture is from Old French fracture, from Latin frāctūra 'breach', from frangere 'to break'.
fracture 加 -ed；源自拉丁文 frāctūra「裂口」。
組成fracture (to crack or break, or the break itself) + -ed (done, or in that state). Fracture goes back to Latin for 'break'.
同家族的字
- fracturethe verb and the noun this form is built from
原始詞典資料3 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。
fracturedadj
- 1
Broken into sharp pieces.
- Of the nine staff in the third coach, most had been having a break, drinking tea or reading. One suffered a fractured skull, another a fractured shoulder. All were either thrown along or across the coach, sustaining cuts, bruising and whiplash injuries.
- 2
Split into groups which disagree.
- Her fractured family could never agree on anything.
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