pus: [16] English borrowed pus from Latin pūs, which was descended from the prehistoric Indo- European base *pū- (source also of English foul and Latin puter ‘rotten’, from which English gets putrid [16]). Its stem form pūr- has given English purulent [16] and suppurate [16]. The Greek relative of Latin pūs was púon ‘pus’, from which English gets pyorrhoea [18]. => foul, purulent, putrid, pyorrhoea, suppurate
pus (n.)
late 14c., from Latin pus "pus, matter from a sore;" figuratively "bitterness, malice" (related to puter "rotten" and putere "to stink"), from PIE *pu- (2) "to rot, decay" (cognates: Sanskrit puyati "rots, stinks," putih "stinking, foul, rotten;" Greek puon "discharge from a sore," pythein "to cause to rot;" Lithuanian puviu "to rot;" Gothic fuls, Old English ful "foul"), perhaps originally echoic of a natural exclamation of disgust.
雙語例句
1. The wound had not healed properly and was oozing pus.
傷口未真正痊瘉,還在流膿.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. The wound is still discharging pus.
這傷口仍在流濃.
來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》
3. The wound discharges pus.
傷口流膿.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
4. Disfiguring subcutaneous lesions bulge onto the surface and at intervals discharge pus.
皮下損害的形象是向表面凸起,并間斷地分泌出膿液.
來自辭典例句
5. The bandage, stiff with pus and blood , was stuck fast to the torn muscles.