- 1肺炎
Pneumonia is a serious illness of the lungs. The tiny air sacs become — swollen and sore, often filling with fluid — so it is hard to breathe, and the body may not get enough air. People with pneumonia often have a bad cough, fever, chest pain, and a heavy, tired feeling. It can follow a cold or flu, or come from of its own. Young children and older people can become very sick; it is not 'just a cough', and doctors treat it as something that needs real care, sometimes in hospital. It is a medical word, used by doctors and also by ordinary families when someone is that ill. You do not use it for a light cold.
From the word’s history
From Ancient Greek pneumonía 'lung disease', from pneúmōn 'lung'.
源自古希臘文 pneumonia「肺病」，來自 pneumōn「肺」。
組成From Ancient Greek pneumonía, 'lung disease': pneúmōn meaning 'lung' + -ía, an ending that names an illness.
同家族的字
- pneumaticshares the same Greek family of words about air, breath, and the lungs
- pneumonicthe adjective, 'of or like pneumonia'
原始詞典資料1 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。
pneumonianoun/njuˈməʊniə/
- 1
Inflammation of the lungs caused by viruses, bacteria or other infectious microorganisms.
- He had always been remarkably immune from such little ailments, and had only once in his life been ill, of a vicious pneumonia long ago at school.
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