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Gangrene is a serious medical problem: part of the body — often a toe, a foot, or a finger — starts to die and rot because blood has stopped reaching it. Without blood, the flesh cannot live, so it breaks down.
Gangrene is a serious medical problemgangrene是很嚴重的醫療問題 part of the body身體的一部分 often a toe, a foot, or a finger常常是腳趾、腳或手指 starts to die and rot開始壞死、腐爛 because blood has stopped reaching it因為血液已經無法到達那裡 Without blood沒有血液 the flesh cannot live肉就無法存活 so it breaks down於是就腐壞了
This can follow a bad injury, a very bad infection, or an illness that hurts the blood vessels, such as diabetes. The skin may turn dark, and the area can smell.
This can follow a bad injury這可能是嚴重外傷造成的 a very bad infection或很嚴重的感染 or an illness that hurts the blood vessels, such as diabetes或是傷害血管的疾病，像糖尿病 The skin may turn dark皮膚可能會變黑 and the area can smell那個部位也可能發出臭味
Doctors treat it as an emergency; sometimes they must cut the dead part away to save the rest of the body. It is a hospital word, not a casual one.
Doctors treat it as an emergency醫生會把它當成緊急狀況處理 sometimes they must cut the dead part away有時候必須把壞死的部分切除 to save the rest of the body才能保住身體其他的部分 It is a hospital word這是個醫院用語 not a casual one不是隨口說說的字
It also works as a verb: a wound can gangrene, meaning this dying-and-rotting can set in. The start looks like gang, but the history is Greek, not “a group of people”.
It also works as a verb它也可以當動詞用 a wound can gangrene傷口可以gangrene meaning this dying-and-rotting can set in意思是這種壞死腐爛的狀況開始發生 The start looks like gang開頭看起來像gang but the history is Greek不過它的來源是希臘文 not “a group of people”跟「一群人」沒有關係
組成English borrowed this from French gangrène, from Latin gangraena, from Ancient Greek γάγγραινα (gángraina), “gangrene”. It does not split into English pieces.
同家族的字
- gangrenousthe adjective: having gangrene
原始詞典資料5 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。
gangrenenoun/ˈɡæŋˌɡɹiːn/
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The necrosis and rotting of flesh, usually caused by lack of blood supply.
- If gangrene sets in, we may have to amputate the foot.
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A damaging or corrupting influence.
- Women should earn equal wages with men for equal work done. Child marriages and polygamy are a gangrene on society.
gangreneverb/ˈɡæŋˌɡɹiːn/
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To produce gangrene in.
- Vulneration or section sometimes procures a Gangrene, when the vital Principle is so debilitated, or enormous by the would, that instead of a good suppuration and vigorous transmutation, a depraved matter is generated, which corrupts and gangrenes the part: and thus a small cut of a finger or Toe hath gangrened, and killed the person: but in greater Wounds, the danger is greater, as more frequently to happen.
- An intensely biting frost will gangrene the membrane ; a foggy state of the atmosphere, with low, black, stagnant exhalations, accompanied with sudden, frequent intermissions, interchanges, and oscillations of dryness and moisture, expansion and condensation, will corrupt and putrify both the membrane and the mucous discharge.
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To be affected with gangrene.
- If a man had a sore leg, and he should go to an honest, judicious chirurgeon, and he should only bid him keep it warm, and anoint it with such an oil, (an oil well known) that would do the cure; haply he would not much regard him, because he knows the medicine, beforehand an ordinary medicine; but if he should go to a surgeon that should tell him, your leg will gangrene within three days, and it must be cut off, and you will die, unless you do something that I could tell you, what listening there would be to this man?
- The leg will gangrene if the superficial femoral vessels be torn.
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To corrupt; To cause to become degenerate.
- That is true,” replied Almira, “nothing can be performed without labor, and where there is labor there will be discontent, and where there is no labor there will be heart-burning and jealousy about insignificant trifles, such as gangrenes the real pleasures of contemplation within these walls; walls, which would otherwise hold out an asylum, much to be prized by those who have been unfortunate, who have lost all their friends, or who are weary of the world."
- The Stuart Restoration period was a necessary sequence of the Puritan period, and there is a similar cause for the sensualism that gangrenes the heart of our morbidly prudish Society of to-day.
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。