女神殿

constipation



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【醫】便秘

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–noun 
1. a condition of the bowels in which the feces are dry and hardened 
and evacuation is difficult and infrequent. 
2. Informal. a state of slowing down, sluggishness, or inactivity. 
3. Obsolete. the act of crowding anything into a smaller compass; condensation.  

see constipate


　
Bridget's campaign proceeds unhappily when her mother (who "comes from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication") introduces her to handsome Mark Darcy (Colin Firth), who is at a holiday party against his will and in a bad mood and is overheard (by Bridget) describing her 

as a "[verbally] incontinent spinster." 

Things go better at work, where she exchanges saucy e-mails with her boss, Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant). His opener: "You appear to have forgotten your skirt." They begin an affair, while 

Darcy [circles] the [outskirts of her consciousness], 

still looking luscious 
but acting [emotionally] constipated.


edification uplift
catharsis the purging or relieving of emotional tension[s]
feces
defecate to void [excrement] from the bowels through the [anus] 
incontinent 
Castigate

colic【醫】絞痛;急腹痛
gripe 腸絞痛, complain, grip
dyspepsia 消化不良;胃弱
queasy 易於反胃的
Fray 


dormant
suggest the quiescence, sleep but may be roused to action
a dormant [volcano]
inert
dead matter, with no inherent power, unable, heavy or hard to move
an inert [mass], inert from [hunger]
sluggish 
cf. schlep
slowness, doesn not move readily or vigorously
a sluggish [stream] [brain] 
torpid 
suspended physical powers, hibernate
[Snakes] are torpid in cold weather. 
Languid