2019.05.18

周六 Saturday

stroke?/strok/?

n.中風(fēng)

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Josh?Hader's neck was bothering him - again. He'd been feeling the discomfort for a couple weeks and recently thought some light stretching could provide relief.
喬什·哈德爾的脖子又疼起來了。幾個星期以來，他一直感到不舒服，最近他想做一些輕微的伸展運動，覺得這樣可以緩解這種不適。

"I went to stretch it," the 28-year-old told The Washington Post, "and as I was using my hand to apply a little bit more pressure than I probably should have, I heard a pop."
這位28歲的小伙子在接受《華盛頓郵報》采訪時表示:“我試著伸展脖子，當(dāng)我用手施加的壓力超過了我應(yīng)該施加的壓力時，我聽到砰的一聲。”

Less than an hour later, Hader would be in a hospital emergency room unable to walk and suffering from what doctors told him was a "major?stroke" caused by a tear in an artery in his neck that had formed a clot.
不到一個小時后，哈德爾就進(jìn)了醫(yī)院的急診室，無法行走，醫(yī)生說他是“嚴(yán)重中風(fēng)”，原因是脖子上的動脈撕裂，形成了血塊。

"He could have died," Vance McCollom, a doctor at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City who treated Hader, told KOCO this week.
俄克拉荷馬城慈善醫(yī)院的醫(yī)生，哈德爾的主治醫(yī)師萬斯·麥科洛姆(Vance McCollom)本周接受KOCO采訪說：“他差點死了?！?/div>

McCollom said Hader had torn his vertebral artery, one of the major arteries in the neck that goes up into the brain.
McCollom說Hader已經(jīng)撕裂了他的椎動脈，這是頸部的大動脈之一，它一直延伸到大腦。

A vertebral artery tear, or dissection, is known to cause strokes that can affect younger people in their 20s or 30s, and has nothing to do with a person's health, Kazuma Nakagawa, a stroke neurologist, told The Post.
中風(fēng)神經(jīng)學(xué)家Kazuma Nakagawa告訴《華盛頓郵報》，我們知道椎動脈撕裂或剝離能導(dǎo)致二三十歲的年輕人中風(fēng)，這和他們的健康狀況無關(guān)。

While it's rare for neck popping to lead to a tear, it's not unheard of, said Nakagawa, the medical director of the Comprehensive Stroke Center at The Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu.
檀香山皇后醫(yī)療中心綜合中風(fēng)中心的醫(yī)學(xué)主任中川說，雖然頸部爆裂導(dǎo)致撕裂的情況很少見，但也不是沒有聽說過。

"People just need to know that sudden neck pain can potentially be the starting point of a stroke," Nakagawa said.
中川說：“人們只需要知道，突然的頸部疼痛可能是中風(fēng)的開始?！?/div>

Experts in the stroke community still do not know why some people's arteries tear while others don't, but they "have a hunch" that it may have something to do with the integrity of the blood vessels' walls differing from person to person, he said.
他說，中風(fēng)研究領(lǐng)域的專家仍然不知道為什么有些人的動脈會撕裂，而有些人則不會，但他們“有一種預(yù)感”，這可能與人與人之間血管壁的完整性不同有關(guān)。

According to Nakagawa, "99.9 percent of the time you pop your neck and it's fine."
中川說：“99.9%的情況下，你扭脖子也不會怎么樣?！?/div>

Hader, however, said his days of neck-popping are over.
然而，哈德爾說，他再也不會扭脖子了。

"I still wake up every once in a while with the urge, and I have to stop myself," he said. "It's still a struggle, but I definitely don't want to pop my neck anymore."
他說:“我仍然會偶爾醒來后有扭脖子的沖動，但我必須忍住?！薄斑@仍然是一個掙扎，但我絕對不想再讓脖子爆了。”

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今日詞匯

stroke?/strok/?

n.中風(fēng)

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major stroke重度中風(fēng)? minor/mild stroke 輕度中風(fēng)

She gave the cat a stroke. 她摸了一下喵。

a stroke of genius 神來之筆（聽說專八的同學(xué)也未必曉得這個）

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