基本釋義
Trauma is a very severe shock or very upsetting experience, which may cause psychological damage.
n.(精神上的) 創(chuàng)傷,痛苦經(jīng)歷
Redoing work that you have failed to save is in a category all of its own, because of the psychological trauma involved. This problem has been mitigated now that revisions are saved automatically on many programs, but it has not been solved. Batteries still run out at crucial moments, internet connections still fail. Making a series of deeply insightful comments in a Google doc, failing to save them and then closing everything down causes a special kind of despair.
文件未保存導(dǎo)致的重復(fù)工作因其造成的心理創(chuàng)傷而自成一類?,F(xiàn)在許多程序都能自動(dòng)保存修改,問題雖得到了緩解,但是并未完全解決:電量仍有可能在關(guān)鍵時(shí)刻告罄,網(wǎng)絡(luò)也可能連接失敗。試想一下,你在谷歌文檔中批注了一連串的深刻見解,但沒有保存就退出了,這時(shí)你將品嘗到一種獨(dú)特的絕望。
《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)人》
Trauma, a blow to the head, a stroke can rid you of your language.
外傷,腦部撞擊,中風(fēng),都可以讓你失去語言能力。
19世紀(jì)末, trauma進(jìn)一步用來表示心理或精神上的“創(chuàng)傷”以及“痛苦經(jīng)歷、挫折”,比如:
單詞trauma的形容詞和動(dòng)詞形式也比較重要:
來看兩個(gè)例句:
大規(guī)模槍擊事件會(huì)讓不在現(xiàn)場的人受到精神創(chuàng)傷。
That must have been traumatic, but is now in the past.
那必然會(huì)令人痛苦,但如今都已過去了。
在美劇《生活大爆炸》S12E10中,Beverly在分析Sheldon的狀態(tài)時(shí),就用到了今天的單詞: