- 1肚子痛、胃痛。中文的「肚子痛」範圍很廣,英文的 stomachache 也一樣鬆,不必是真的胃在痛。
A stomachache is a pain in your stomach or the area around it. In real use, English speakers use it loosely for almost any pain in the middle of the body — from eating too much, from bad food, from period pain, or from nerves before an exam. Doctors may be more exact, but ordinary people are not. Two grammar points matter more than the meaning here. First, in American English it is usually written as one word, stomachache; in British English you often see two words, stomach . Both are correct. Second, and this catches everyone: it takes 'a'. You say 'I have a stomachache', not 'I have stomachache' — though British speakers do sometimes drop the 'a', which is why students see both and get confused. Follow the 'a'. It is an everyday word, fine to say to a friend, a teacher, or a doctor. It usually means something mild and temporary; for something serious, people say 'stomach pains' or name the real problem.
組成stomach + ache. An 'ache' is a dull pain that goes on for a while, not a sharp sudden one — the same piece appears in headache, toothache, backache.
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。
stomachachenoun/ˈstʌməkˌeɪk/
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A pain in the abdomen, often caused by indigestion, usually lower than the stomach and related to the intestines.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。