migraine
/ˈmaɪɡreɪn/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈmaɪɡreɪn/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈmī-ˌgrān British often ˈmē-/ (ame, mw)
migraine — 名詞
- migrainesingular
- migrainesplural
1. A very painful form of headache. It can also make you feel sick, throw up, or ha
偏頭痛
一種劇烈頭痛，常伴隨噁心、嘔吐、怕光
A very painful form of headache. It can also make you feel sick, throw up, or have trouble seeing clearly. The pain is often strong and beating and may affect only one side.
Liang felt a bad migraine coming on during the afternoon meeting.
Liang 在下午開會時感覺到嚴重的偏頭痛要發作了。
feel + a migraine + coming on for describing the onset
The bright screen triggered a migraine that ruined Camila's entire evening.
明亮的螢幕引發了偏頭痛，毀了 Camila 整個晚上。
trigger + a migraine for a common cause
Noor was diagnosed with chronic migraine after months of severe headaches and nausea.
Noor 在經歷幾個月的嚴重頭痛和噁心之後，被診斷出患有慢性偏頭痛。
The new tablets reduced how often Jude got migraines each month.
新藥丸減少了 Jude 每個月偏頭痛發作的次數。
Felipe left the restaurant early when a migraine hit, with pounding pain, nausea, and coloured spots in his vision.
Felipe 偏頭痛發作，餐廳才吃到一半就提早離開，伴隨著劇烈抽痛、噁心，眼前還出現彩色斑點。
- headache
A general term for any pain in the head. Migraine is a specific, much more severe type that includes nausea and vision problems.
文法句型
have + a migraine
suffer from + migraines
migraine + noun (e.g. migraine attack, migraine sufferer)
用法筆記
Can be used as an uncountable noun when referring to the medical condition in general ('She suffers from migraine'), or as a countable noun when referring to a specific attack ('I had a migraine yesterday').