Reader's Digest 8月号の記事CHILLING MEDICAL DRAMASからの引用です。
A needle, attached to an IV bag, punctured his skin. He glanced at his knee, which the surgeons were operating on. "I saw what appeared to be forceps and other things sticking out of my leg," says David, 61, of Dana Point, California. "It was very unsettling."
His fight-or-flight instincts took hold. He pulled off the mask and reached toward the needle in his arm to pull it out.
"fight-or-flight" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: (modifier) involving or relating to an involuntary response to stress in which the hormone adrenaline is secreted into the blood in readiness for physical action, such as fighting or running away: Adrenaline rush Terror, or indeed any extreme emotional response, including great joy, makes the fight-or-flight response kick in.
Mosby's Medical Dictionary:
1 (in physiology) the reaction of the body to stress, in which the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal medulla act to increase the cardiac output, dilate the pupils of the eyes, increase the rate of the heartbeat, constrict the blood vessels of the skin, increase the levels of glucose and fatty acids in the circulation, and induce an alert, aroused mental state.
2 (in psychiatry) a person's reaction to stress by either fleeing from a situation or remaining and attempting to deal with it.
なるほど、これなら、"flight" を "fright" と発音しても意味は通じそうな気がします。
A needle, attached to an IV bag, punctured his skin. He glanced at his knee, which the surgeons were operating on. "I saw what appeared to be forceps and other things sticking out of my leg," says David, 61, of Dana Point, California. "It was very unsettling."
His fight-or-flight instincts took hold. He pulled off the mask and reached toward the needle in his arm to pull it out.
"fight-or-flight" の意味を調べます。
・Collins Dictionary: (modifier) involving or relating to an involuntary response to stress in which the hormone adrenaline is secreted into the blood in readiness for physical action, such as fighting or running away: Adrenaline rush Terror, or indeed any extreme emotional response, including great joy, makes the fight-or-flight response kick in.
Mosby's Medical Dictionary:
1 (in physiology) the reaction of the body to stress, in which the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal medulla act to increase the cardiac output, dilate the pupils of the eyes, increase the rate of the heartbeat, constrict the blood vessels of the skin, increase the levels of glucose and fatty acids in the circulation, and induce an alert, aroused mental state.
2 (in psychiatry) a person's reaction to stress by either fleeing from a situation or remaining and attempting to deal with it.
なるほど、これなら、"flight" を "fright" と発音しても意味は通じそうな気がします。
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