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The humerus is the long bone in your upper arm, from the shoulder down to the elbow. You have one in each arm. Doctors and biology teachers use the word; in ordinary talk most people just say 'the bone in my upper arm'. If you fall on that arm, this is often the bone that breaks. Though actually, people mix it up with humorous (funny) all the time, because they sound almost the same — they are not related at all. One is a bone with a Latin name; the other is about jokes.
肱骨(上手臂、肩膀到手肘那根)
組成A learned borrowing from Late Latin humerus, from earlier Latin umerus, 'shoulder'. Same old root as Spanish hombro (shoulder). Not related to humorous.
同家族的字
- humeralthe adjective doctors use for things of this bone
原始詞典資料1 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。
humerusnoun/ˈhjuːməɹəs/
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anatomymedicinesciencesThe bone of the upper arm.
- Jojo was fine, however—well, she had a fractured humerus and needed to stay overnight, but it could’ve been a lot worse.
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。