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Impetigo is a skin disease you can catch from other people. It often begins as red sores, then scabs the colour of honey, especially around the mouth and nose. Children get it more than adults, because they touch faces and share towels. It is usually caused by already common on the skin, and a doctor can treat it. It looks ugly and spreads easily in a class, but for most people it is not a deep or dangerous illness. It is not a cold sore (that is a virus on the lip) and it is not eczema (that is dry, itchy skin, not typically those golden scabs). The name is medical Latin. Speakers still say impetigo at the doctor’s; parents may just say a skin infection.
膿痂疹(小孩常見的傳染性皮膚病,結蜜色痂;診所會說這個病名)
組成Learned borrowing from Latin impetīgō, from impetere, “to rush upon, attack.” The disease was pictured as something that attacks the skin. The word does not split into living English pieces.
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。
impetigonoun/ɪmpɪˈtaɪɡəʊ/
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medicinepathologysciencesA contagious bacterial skin disease forming pustules and yellow crusty sores, chiefly on the face and hands. It is common in children and infection is often through cuts or insect bites.
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。