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(C) The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured. Such a disease is, by definition, mysterious. For as long as its cause was not understood and the ministrations of doctors remained so ineffective, TB was thought to be an insidious, implacable theft of a life. Now it is cancer’s turn to be the disease that doesn’t knock before it enters, cancer fills the role of an illness experienced as a ruthless secret invasion—a role it will keep until, one day, its etiology becomes as clear and its treatment as effective as those of TB have become. Although the way in which disease mystifies is set against a backdrop of new expectations, the disease itself (once TB, cancer today) arouses thoroughly old-fashioned kinds of dread. Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious. Thus, a surprisingly large number of people with cancer find themselves being shunned by relatives and friends and are the object of practices of decontamination by members of their household, as if cancer, like TB, were an infectious disease. Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene—in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. Cardiac disease implies a weakness, trouble, failure that is mechanical; there is no disgrace, nothing of the taboo that once surrounded peoples afflicted with TB and still surrounds those who have cancer. The metaphors attached to TB and to cancer imply living processes of a particularly resonant and horrid kind.
【題組】38. Which of the following word is closest to the original meaning of cancer?
(A) impecunious
(B) paradoxical
(C) enchanting
(D) detestable

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黃淨盈 國三下 (2019/07/17)
in the original mean☆☆☆ ☆☆ ☆☆☆☆...


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一階過了~準備畢業二階 大一下 (2019/12/20)

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene—in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.

文章只有解釋obscene的意思，而不是解釋CANCER....



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炸蝦 小二下 (2021/07/13)

omen(n.)預兆

The team's final victory of the season is a good omen for the playoffs, which start next week.

球隊在本賽季最後一場比賽中獲得勝利，這對下星期就開始的季後加賽來說是一個好兆頭。

ab-away  omen/omin-預兆 逃離預兆>>>令人討厭的

abominable(a.)可惡的，令人討厭的

repugnant(a.) 令人反感/令人厭惡的

re(一再)+pugn(打) à因為令人厭惡，所以一再地打

I find your attitude towards these women quite repugnant.

我覺得你對待這些女性的態度非常令人反感

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炸蝦 小二下 (2021/07/13)

impecunious(a.)貧窮的，im(=not) + pecun(錢)(penny)

I first knew him as an impecunious student living in a tiny apartment.我剛認識他時，他還是個窮學生，住在一間狹小的公寓裡。

pecuniary(a.)金錢的

pecuniary interest/loss/benefit金錢方面的利益／損失／好處


(C) The fantasies inspired by TB in the..-阿摩線上測驗