numbness
/ˈnʌmnəs/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈnʌmnəs/ (ame, ipa)
numbness — 名詞
1. the condition of having little or no sense of touch or temperature in one area o
麻木；無感
身體部位失去觸覺或溫度感
the condition of having little or no sense of touch or temperature in one area of the body, often after cold weather, an injury, or medical treatment.
Sade noticed a strange numbness in her right hand after the long bicycle ride home.
Sade 騎完那段長程單車回到家後，發現右手有一種奇怪的麻木感。
collocation: numbness in [body part]
The dentist warned that numbness around the lower jaw would last about two hours after the injection.
牙醫提醒，下顎周圍的麻木感在打完麻醉後大約還會持續兩小時。
typical medical context: numbness after anaesthesia
Cyrus rubbed his toes hard to drive away the numbness caused by the freezing mountain air.
Cyrus 用力搓揉腳趾，想趕走山上冰冷空氣造成的麻木。
Sudden numbness on one side of the face can be an early warning sign of a stroke.
臉部單側突然失去知覺，可能是中風的早期警訊。
After hours of typing, Yuna felt a dull numbness creeping along her left arm.
打字打了好幾個小時後，Yuna 感覺左手臂悄悄地麻木起來。
- deadness
less common in medical contexts; more figurative
- insensitivity
broader; includes lack of emotional response, not only physical
- paralysis
more severe — implies inability to move, not just loss of sensation
- sensitivity
the normal ability to feel touch, pain, temperature
文法句型
numbness in [body part]
用法筆記
Frequently appears with the preposition 'in' to locate the affected area (numbness in the legs, in the fingers). Often paired with a cause clause ('caused by', 'after', 'from').
常見錯誤
2. an inability to feel emotion, think clearly, or respond normally to events, usua
情感麻木
因震驚或哀痛而失去情緒反應
an inability to feel emotion, think clearly, or respond normally to events, usually because of grief, shock, or a deeply distressing experience.
In the days after the funeral, Eve described feeling only a strange emotional numbness.
在喪禮過後那幾天，Eve 形容自己只剩下一種奇怪的情感麻木。
collocation: emotional numbness, after a loss
A heavy numbness settled over Diego when he learned that the factory would close for good.
當 Diego 得知工廠將永久關閉時，一陣沉重的麻木感籠罩了他。
Survivors often speak of an initial numbness that prevents them from crying or feeling fear.
倖存者常提到一開始那種讓人哭不出來、也感受不到害怕的麻木。
Piotr stared at the wreckage of his car with a kind of dazed numbness he could not shake off.
Piotr 望著自己被撞毀的車，帶著一種怎麼也擺脫不掉的恍惚麻木。
Years of bad news from the war zone had left the journalist with a quiet numbness toward suffering.
多年來來自戰區的壞消息，讓那位記者對苦難產生了一種沉默的麻木。
- shock
narrower — the immediate state right after a distressing event
- detachment
more deliberate or chronic; less tied to a specific shock
- apathy
long-term lack of interest in general, not a reaction to one event
- engagement
active emotional involvement
文法句型
a sense of numbness
用法筆記
Distinguish from sense 1 by the trigger: sense 1 is physical (cold, injury, drugs), sense 2 is emotional (shock, grief, trauma). Often modified by 'emotional', 'dazed', 'inner', or paired with 'shock' / 'grief' as a cause.