laceration 復習
イギリスロンドンの国会議事堂付近で襲撃テロ事件が起き、議員たちも被害者の救助に駆けつけました。
Parliament member seen aiding victim of London terror attack
A member of British parliament is being hailed as a hero after he was seen aiding a victim of a terror attack near London's Westminster Bridge.
MP Tobias Ellwood, a foreign office junior minister, was pictured with a bloody face after he attempted mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to an injured police officer on the bridge, the BBCreported. He also applied pressure to the officer's multiple lacerations, The Associated Press reported.
Photos show Ellwood, 50, crouched over the victim as first responders surrounded them.
The condition of the victim is unclear. Ellwood's brother was killed in Bali in a terror attack in 2002, according to the AP.
取り上げる単語は"laceration"です。
『ジーニアス英和辞典』第4版(大修館)で調べてみると、「引き裂くこと、(感情などを)ひどく傷つけること、…を苦しめる、裂傷、裂け口」とありました。LDOCEでは、"a cut in your skin"や "to criticize someone very strongly"と定義かれています。今回は、"multiple laceration"とあるので、「複数の傷」のことを指していることが分かります。(Akim)
