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Postprandial means happening right after a meal. Doctors use it in a straight, serious way: postprandial blood sugar is the sugar in your blood after you eat, and they may ask you to wait two hours after food before a test. In ordinary English it often sounds playful or a little fancy — a postprandial nap is the sleepy stretch after lunch, said with a smile, not as a clinic note. You will meet it in health writing and in jokes much more than in street talk; most people just say “after lunch” or “after dinner.” Though actually, the first half is not the mail. Post- here only means after. Prandial by itself is a rare old word for “about a meal”; postprandial is the piece students actually see.
餐後的(日常多說「飯後」;體檢單上的「餐後血糖」就是這個)
組成From post- (after) + prandial (about a meal).
同家族的字
- prandialthe rarer word for ‘about a meal’; postprandial just adds ‘after’
- preprandialthe matching word for before a meal
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。
postprandialadj/ˌpəʊs(t)ˈpɹan.dɪ.əl/
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After a meal, especially after dinner.
- postprandial somnolence
- As a post-prandial speaker, however, Thackeray was undeniably the reverse of felicitous.
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。