aphasic
aphasic — 形容詞
- aphasicpositive
- more aphasiccomparative
- most aphasicsuperlative
1. describing someone who has partly or completely lost the ability to use language
失語的
因腦部受損而喪失語言能力的
describing someone who has partly or completely lost the ability to use language — speaking, understanding, reading, or writing — usually after brain damage caused by a stroke or head injury; also used of things linked to this condition.
After the stroke, Haruto became aphasic and struggled to name everyday objects.
中風後，Haruto 出現失語症狀，連日常物品的名稱都說不出來。
predicative: become aphasic after a medical event
The speech therapist designed gentle exercises for her aphasic patients each morning.
語言治療師每天早上為她的失語症患者設計溫和的練習。
attributive: aphasic patient(s) before a noun
Doctors warned the family that Walid might stay aphasic for several months.
醫生警告家屬，Walid 可能會持續失語好幾個月。
Lara's aphasic father could understand jokes but could not repeat the words.
Lara 失語的父親聽得懂笑話，卻沒辦法把那些字重複說出來。
Élise read slowly to her aphasic grandmother, who smiled at familiar names.
Élise 慢慢地讀書給她失語的祖母聽，祖母聽到熟悉的名字時露出微笑。
- dysphasic
near-synonym; strictly means partial language loss while aphasic suggests fuller loss, but the two are often used interchangeably
- language-impaired
broader, plainer term covering any difficulty with language, not only brain-injury cases
文法句型
aphasic + noun
become aphasic
用法筆記
Works both attributively (an aphasic patient) and predicatively (Haruto became aphasic). In clinical writing the same form also serves as a noun for a person with aphasia.