英汉词典

cancer 基本解释

• n. 癌症；恶性肿瘤

cancer 词态变化

cancer 中文词源

来自PIE *kar, 硬，词源同hard. 字母n,r音变。

因古希腊医生观察到肿瘤病人静脉肿胀形如螃蟹而得名。

cancer 英文词源

cancer

cancer: [14] Cancer comes from Latin cancer, which meant literally ‘crab’. It was a translation of Greek karkínos ‘crab’, which, together with its derivative karkínōma (source of English carcinoma [18]) was, according to the ancient Greek physician Galen, applied to tumours on account of the crablike pattern formed by the distended blood vessels around the affected part.

Until the 17th century, the term generally used for the condition in English was canker, which arose from an earlier borrowing of Latin cancer in Old English times; before then, cancer had been used exclusively in the astrological sense. The French derivative of Latin cancer, chancre, was borrowed into English in the 16th century for ‘syphilitic ulcer’.
=> canker, carcinoma

cancer (n.)

Old English cancer "spreading sore, cancer" (also canceradl), from Latin cancer "a crab," later, "malignant tumor," from Greek karkinos, which, like the Modern English word, has three meanings: crab, tumor, and the zodiac constellation (late Old English), from PIE root *qarq- "to be hard" (like the shell of a crab); cognates: Sanskrit karkatah "crab," karkarah "hard;" and perhaps cognate with PIE root *qar-tu- "hard, strong," source of English hard.

Greek physicians Hippocrates and Galen, among others, noted similarity of crabs to some tumors with swollen veins. Meaning "person born under the zodiac sign of Cancer" is from 1894. The sun being in Cancer at the summer solstice, the constellation had association in Latin writers with the south and with summer heat. Cancer stick "cigarette" is from 1959.

cancer 英文释义

1. any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream

cancer 双语例句

1. She spent a period of time working with people dying of cancer.

她有一段时间曾帮助垂危的癌症患者。

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2. Scientists know that cancer may not show up for many years.

科学家们知道癌症可能会潜伏多年。

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3. Decaffeinated coffee still contains some stimulants and other nasties linked with cancer.

脱咖啡因的咖啡仍含一些刺激物和其他可能致癌的有害物质。

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4. She attended a cancer support group at her local hospital.

她参加了当地医院的癌症互助组。

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5. Calcium may aid in the prevention of colon cancer.

钙可能有助于预防结肠癌。

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cancer 实用场景例句

cancer research

癌症研究

牛津词典

Violence is a cancer in our society.

暴力行为是我们社会的毒瘤。

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to become cancerous

发生癌变

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cancerous cells/growths/tumours

癌细胞；癌病变；恶性肿瘤

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cancer patients

癌症病人

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lung/breast cancer

肺 / 乳腺癌

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cancer of the bowel/stomach

肠 / 胃癌

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Most skin cancers are completely curable.

大多数的皮肤癌是完全可以治愈的。

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The cancer has spread to his stomach.

癌已扩散到他的胃部。

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Her mother died of breast cancer...

她母亲死于乳腺癌。

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Jane was just 25 when she learned she had cancer...

简得知自己罹癌那一年才25岁。

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The blank picokeystone served a couple purposes.

取空白楔块儿有两个目的.

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There the incidence of the cancer of the oesophagus was suspected to be pretty high.

估计那里的食道癌发病率相当高.

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This is a possible cure to fight off cancer.

这也许是治愈癌症的良方.

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The medicine is effective against cancer.

这药物治癌有效.

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Radium can be used to treat cancer.

镭可以用来治疗癌症.

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I learned that he was suffering from cancer.

我听说他患了癌症.

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He was suffering from cancer which had already reached an advanced stage.

他的癌症已经到晚期了.

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The diagnosis was ovarian cancer.

诊断结果是卵巢癌.

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He is in the terminal stage of cancer.

他正处于癌症晚期.

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The doctor thought the girl's illness should be kept back from her because it was cancer.

医生认为不能把病情告诉这个女孩,因为她得了癌症.

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He made a research into the cause of cancer.

他对癌症病因进行了研究.

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Cancer destroyed her body but not her spirit.

癌症摧残了她的身体,却摧毁不了她的精神.

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This is a specific for cancer.

这是一种治疗癌症的特效药.

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Lung cancer deprived him of his life.

肺癌夺去了他的生命.

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Besides cancer, smoking can lead on to other diseases.

除了癌症外, 吸烟还可引起其他疾病.

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one of the most common forms of cancer

最普通的一种癌症

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The test should identify which smokers are most prone to develop lung cancer.

这项检查应该可以确认哪些吸烟者更容易得肺癌。

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