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March 10, 2018
19-Year-Old Teen Becomes a Quadriplegic after Swallowing Slug
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Summary:
Accepting his friends’ challenge of eating a live slug nine ...
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March 10, 2018
19-Year-Old Teen Becomes a Quadriplegic after Swallowing Slug
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Summary:
Accepting his friends’ challenge of eating a live slug nine years ago, an Australian teenager, 19 back then and in the prime of his life, fell into a 420-day coma after he contracted rat lungworm from the slug, and has been a quadriplegic ever since he woke up.
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Language Enhancement:
Quadriplegic (n.)(四肢癱瘓者)
Quadriplegic (adj.)(四肢癱瘓的)
此字較為專門，字首 quad- 暗示它與「四」有關，原因是它的核心意思是無法控制「四肢」，也就是「四肢癱瘓」。發音是 quad-dra-plee-jick。
e.g. The accident left Chloe a quadriplegic and since then she had to rely on her parents’ 24-hour care.
e.g. Jack had suffered serious trauma to his vertebrae and the doctors were worried that he might become a quadriplegic at one point, but it turns out he is going to make a full recovery.
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