Fester

fester







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【醫】淺潰瘍,膿瘡



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–verb (used without object) 

1. to form pus; generate purulent (化膿的) matter; suppurate. (化膿)

2. to cause ulceration (潰瘍), as a foreign body in the flesh.

3. to putrefy or rot. 

4. to rankle, as a feeling of resentment. 



putrefy

–verb (used with object) 

1. to render putrid; cause to rot or decay with an offensive odor.

–verb (used without object) 

2. to become putrid; rot.

3. to become gangrenous.



–verb (used with object) 

5. to cause to rankle: Malice festered his [spirit].  



–noun 

6. an ulcer; a rankling sore.

7. a small, purulent, superficial sore.





　

The sufferers are rounded up and herded into a quarantine ward, in what looks like a disused hospital or jail, with armed guards preventing their escape. The other wards fill up fast, and [flickers] of [information] from the outside suggest that the whole city has gone blind, and perhaps the world beyond. 



It doesn’t take long for the place to fester; soon, there are naked figures, no longer bothering to dress, wandering through corridors littered with filth, human and otherwise. The doctor, who is kindly, efficient, and, frankly, a little boring, tries to maintain order. 



In the [opposing] corner, we have a young barman (Gael García Bernal), representing the Hobbesian, or inherently beastly, team. "I hereby declare myself the king of Ward Three," he says, before commandeering the meagre [food] supplies and agreeing to release them as and when the women offer themselves for rape. 



We duly reach the [pit] of this descent: a single file of females, linking hands and lining up to be violated in perpetual [night]. 





pustule 

slough 

mortification

1. humiliate

2. subjugate by abstinence

3. gangrene or necrosis (壞疽) cf. gangling

scabrous

scabby, scabious (covered with scabs)

Scalp