infection[?n'fek?(?)n]?

n. <醫(yī)>傳染，感染

A?woman's habit of keeping her contact lenses in while swimming and showering had serious consequences: She developed a rare eye?infection?that left her legally blind in one eye, according to a new report of the case.
一位女士有戴隱形眼鏡游泳和洗澡的習(xí)慣，這個(gè)習(xí)慣造成了嚴(yán)重的后果：她患上了一種罕見的眼睛感染，致使她一只眼睛在法律上判定失明。

The 41-year-old woman, who lives in the United Kingdom, went to the eye doctor after experiencing blurry vision, eye pain and sensitivity to light in her left eye for two months, according to the report, which was published on July 17 in The New England Journal of Medicine.
根據(jù)《新英格蘭醫(yī)學(xué)雜志》7月17日的報(bào)道，這位女士今年41歲，住在英國(guó)。兩個(gè)月以來(lái)，她左眼視力模糊、疼痛、對(duì)光敏感，隨后她去看眼科醫(yī)生。

She told doctors that she wore disposable, soft contact lenses and that she kept them in while swimming and showering, the report said.
報(bào)道稱，她告訴醫(yī)生她戴一次性的軟隱形眼鏡，游泳和洗澡時(shí)也戴。

An eye test showed that her vision was 20/200 in her left eye, the threshold for being "legally blind" in the United States. Her right eye was not affected.
視力檢查表明，她左眼視力是0.1，也就是美國(guó) “法律判定的失明”的閾值。她的右眼沒(méi)受影響。

Doctors could see a cloudiness or haze in the women's cornea, the eye's transparent outer covering.?
醫(yī)生能在這位女士的角膜，也就是眼睛的透明覆蓋物中看到渾濁。

They performed another eye test that uses a special dye to detect damage to this covering. During this test, any damage to the cornea will appear green when doctors shine a blue light on the eye, according to the National Institutes of Health.
他們進(jìn)行了另一項(xiàng)眼睛檢查，使用特殊染料來(lái)檢測(cè)覆蓋物。根據(jù)國(guó)家健康局的消息，當(dāng)醫(yī)生對(duì)眼睛照射藍(lán)光時(shí)，任何對(duì)于角膜的損傷都會(huì)呈現(xiàn)綠色。

The doctors saw that, indeed, a defect in the woman's cornea appeared green during the test.
醫(yī)生確實(shí)看到這位女士的角膜在測(cè)試中的缺陷呈現(xiàn)綠色。

Samples from her eye tested positive for Acanthamoeba keratitis, a rare parasitic infection of the cornea.?
女士眼睛取樣在棘阿米巴角膜炎檢測(cè)中呈陽(yáng)性。這種角膜炎是一種罕見的角膜寄生性感染。

The infection is known to damage a person's vision and is tied to the use of contact lenses, according to the report, led by Dr. Lanxing Fu, of the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital in the United Kingdom.
根據(jù)英國(guó)的曼徹斯特皇家眼科醫(yī)院符藍(lán)星（音譯）博士的報(bào)告，已知這種感染會(huì)損害視力，與佩戴隱形眼鏡有關(guān)。

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infection[?n'fek?(?)n]?

n. <醫(yī)>傳染，感染

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an obvious sign of infection 一種明顯的感染跡象

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There is little risk of infection unless someone has a fresh cold.
除非有人剛感冒，否則傳染的可能性極小。

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文中” eye infection”，指“眼部感染”。