- 1檢傷分類（醫療）；廣義指「排優先順序、決定先處理誰」。台灣急診的「檢傷分級」就是這個。
Triage is what medical staff do when many people need help at once and there are not enough doctors, beds or time: they quickly look at everyone and decide the order of treatment. The person treated first is not the one who arrived first, and not the one shouting loudest — it is the one whose life is most in danger right now and who can still be saved. That last part surprises people. In a disaster, someone almost certain to die may be passed over so that three people who can be saved get help. Triage is a hard idea, and hospitals train for it.
You meet it in emergency rooms, on battlefields, and after earthquakes and crashes. In a normal hospital 急診, the nurse who checks you at the desk and gives you a level number is doing triage.
The word has spread far beyond medicine. Companies, engineers and managers now say triage for any 'we cannot do everything, so what gets attention first?' decision — bug triage in software teams, email triage on Monday morning. This use is common and quite casual.
It works as a noun (a triage nurse, do triage) and as a verb (to triage patients, to triage the bug list). Note the French sound: roughly 'TREE-ahzh' or 'tree-AHZH'.
組成Borrowed from French triage, from the verb trier, 'to sort'. It first meant sorting things by quality — like sorting coffee beans — and only later meant sorting the wounded.
原始詞典資料7 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。
triagenoun/ˈtɹiː.ɑːʒ/
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Assessment or sorting according to quality, need, etc., especially to determine how resources will be allocated.
- Let us think of triage, and remember the word's origins. It began with French wool growers in the eighteenth century, but its most illuminating use comes from eighteenth century coffee bean growers, who sorted their beans into best, middling, and broken. The last category came to be known as 'triage coffee.' In war we attend to the most seriously wounded first, which is how most of [us] understand the word today. […] Therefore to protect the best and the middling, we must sell off our 'triage coffee.'
- [Mike Davis] notes that the 'late capitalist triage of humanity' has 'already taken place'.
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medicinesciencesThe process of sorting patients so as to determine the order in which they will be treated (for example, by assigning precedence according to the urgency of illness or injury).
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medicinesciencesA facility within a hospital that screens walk-in patients and determines which department or clinic to send them to. (See also triage center.)
- I knew where most of the medical supplies were kept. I went to triage. The room was chaos.
- Triage was busy and noisy, and suddenly I had no energy.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
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That which is picked out, especially broken coffee beans.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsA marshalling yard, classification yard.
- Similarly, any group of sidings is known to army railway personnel as a "triage". This word is derived from the French verb trier, which means literally "to sort," and hence "triage" has become the common army expression for a marshalling yard.
triageverb/ˈtɹiː.ɑːʒ/
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medicinesciencesTo subject to triage; to prioritize.
- Then, over 2001 and '02, he laid off 150 employees at MGI Software, a company he'd first "triaged" as a consultant for NPV Associates with his partner and fellow UCC alumnus Henry Eaton, before stepping in as CEO. Firing 30 per cent of the work force was necessary to save the company, insists NPV principal partner Eaton.
- With the ambulance service the calls are triaged, so your response time can be anything from six minutes for a life-threatening call to an hour and a half for a broken limb.
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。