Constipation

constipation





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【醫】便秘



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–noun 

1. a condition of the bowels in which the feces are dry and hardened 

and evacuation is difficult and infrequent. 

2. Informal. a state of slowing down, sluggishness, or inactivity. 

3. Obsolete. the act of crowding anything into a smaller compass; condensation.  



see constipate





　

Bridget's campaign proceeds unhappily when her mother (who "comes from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication") introduces her to handsome Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), who is at a holiday party against his will and in a bad mood and is overheard (by Bridget) describing her 



as a "[verbally] incontinent spinster." 



Things go better at work, where she exchanges saucy e-mails with her boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). His opener: "You appear to have forgotten your skirt." They begin an affair, while 



Darcy [circles] the [outskirts of her consciousness], 



still looking luscious 

but acting [emotionally] constipated.





edification uplift

catharsis the purging or relieving of emotional tension[s]

feces

defecate to void [excrement] from the bowels through the [anus] 

incontinent 

Castigate



colic【醫】絞痛;急腹痛

gripe 腸絞痛, complain, grip

dyspepsia 消化不良;胃弱

queasy 易於反胃的

Fray 





dormant

suggest the quiescence, sleep but may be roused to action

a dormant [volcano]

inert

dead matter, with no inherent power, unable, heavy or hard to move

an inert [mass], inert from [hunger]

sluggish 

cf. schlep

slowness, doesn not move readily or vigorously

a sluggish [stream] [brain] 

torpid 

suspended physical powers, hibernate

[Snakes] are torpid in cold weather. 

Languid