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A kind of medicine that lowers cholesterol in your blood, taken to cut the risk of a heart attack or a stroke.
A kind of medicine一種藥物 that lowers cholesterol in your blood能降低血液中膽固醇 taken to cut the risk of a heart attack or a stroke用來降低心臟病發作或中風的風險
It is a group name, not one drug: several different medicines belong to the group, and you can spot them because their names all end the same way — atorvastatin, simvastatin, rosuvastatin. That shared ending is exactly why the group is called statins.
It is a group name這是一個群組名稱 not one drug不是單一種藥 several different medicines belong to the group好幾種不同的藥都屬於這一群 and you can spot them你可以認出它們 because their names all end the same way因為它們的名字結尾都一樣 atorvastatin, simvastatin, rosuvastatinatorvastatin、simvastatin、rosuvastatin That shared ending正是這個共同的字尾 is exactly why the group is called statins讓這一群藥被叫做 statins
Doctors give them to people whose cholesterol is high, and usually the person takes one tablet every day for years, often for the rest of their life, so you will hear ordinary people say "I'm on statins" the way they might say "I'm on blood pressure pills." It is worth knowing that these are among the most-prescribed medicines in the world, so the word turns up constantly in health news and in conversation among older people.
Doctors give them to people whose cholesterol is high醫生會開給膽固醇過高的人 and usually the person takes one tablet every day for years通常一個人要每天吃一顆，吃好幾年 often for the rest of their life常常是吃一輩子 so you will hear ordinary people say所以你會聽到一般人說 "I'm on statins" the way they might say "I'm on blood pressure pills."「我在吃 statins」，就像他們會說「我在吃血壓藥」一樣 It is worth knowing that these are among the most-prescribed medicines in the world值得知道的是，這是全世界處方量最高的藥物之一 so the word turns up constantly in health news and in conversation among older people所以這個字經常出現在健康新聞和長輩的對話裡
The plural, statins, is far more common than the singular. it is an ordinary countable noun.
The plural, statins,複數形 statins is far more common than the singular比單數形常見得多 Grammatically文法上 it is an ordinary countable noun它是一個普通的可數名詞
組成這個字是從藥名的尾巴倒著造出來的。-statin 原本只是一串藥名共有的結尾（來自「使停止、抑制」的意思），後來這個結尾自己被切下來，當成一整類藥的名字使用。
原始詞典資料2 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。
statinnoun/ˈstætɪn/
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medicinepharmacologysciencesAny of a class of drugs, the HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, that lower the amount of cholesterol in the blood by inhibiting an enzyme involved in its biosynthesis.
- The researchers found that statins were likely to provide benefits at a substantially higher health risk than expected and that those risk levels were lower for atorvastatin and rosuvastatin than for simvastatin and pravastatin. […] Yet some of the statin side effects mentioned in the study have not been proved in the scientific literature or are exaggerated and could cause unnecessary worry, he said.
- Among the latest are reports of the ability of several leading statins to reduce deaths from common cancers and blunt the decline of memory with age.
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endocrinologymedicinesciencesAn inhibiting hormone: a hormone that is involved primarily in inhibiting the release of another hormone.
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。