《中英對照讀新聞》Doctors remove 50 maggots from Thai man's ears 醫生自一名泰國男子耳中取出五十個蛆

◎張沛元

Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch.

醫生在一名前往醫院抱怨耳朵癢的八十四歲泰國男子的耳朵中，發現大約五十個蛆。

Nation newspaper said Anan Temtan, who lives in the tsunami-hit southern resort island of Phuket, had used cotton buds to relieve the itching, but had scratched so hard his eardrums ruptured and started bleeding.

「國家報」說，家住遭海嘯侵襲的南部度假島嶼普吉的阿納•泰姆坦，曾使用棉花棒來解癢，但搔抓得太用力，以致鼓膜破裂並且開始流血。

“We believe flies might have gone inside his ears to lay eggs, which hatched into larvae and caused the itching,” said Somsak Nonthasri, the doctor who treated him.

「我們相信可能是蒼蠅跑進他的耳朵裡產卵，卵孵化成為幼蟲，導致耳朵癢，」治療這名男子的醫生桑姆沙克•諾薩斯瑞說。

Somsak, who used tweezers and a small suction device to remove the maggots, said Anan would be kept in for observation for a while to make sure no more eggs hatched.

使用鑷子與小型吸吮工具取出這些蛆的桑姆沙克說，阿納還得留院觀察一段時間，以確保（他的耳朵裡）沒有蒼蠅卵又孵化出來。

Dictionary-新聞辭典

maggot：名詞，蛆，蒼蠅的幼蟲。

itch：名詞，搔癢，渴望；動詞，發癢，渴望。例句：He always has an itch for money。（他一直渴望有錢。）

cotton bud：名詞，棉花棒。cotton是棉花，bud為花苞；一小坨棉花或棉花球則是cotton ball。

fly：名詞，蒼蠅，複數為flies，片語 no flies on somebody（沒有蒼蠅停在某人身上），意指某人聰明伶俐，蒼蠅根本找不到機會停在此人身上。fly當動詞使用時有「飛翔」的意思。

lay：動詞，產卵，放置，動詞三態為lay，laid，laid。lay同時也是lie做「躺臥」解釋時的過去式（躺臥lie的動詞三態是lie，lay，lain；不過，lie除了做「躺臥」解釋，還有「說謊」的意思（說謊lie的動詞三態是lie，lied，lied），因此遇到lay字時，必須根據上下文來判定其真正意義。

larva：名詞，昆蟲的幼蟲（如尚未變成青蛙的蝌蚪）。larva的複數是larvae，形容詞為larval，意指幼蟲的，尚在發展初期的。