acute
adj. 嚴重的; (疾病)急性的; 靈敏的; 敏銳的; 銳角的
You can use acute to indicate that an undesirable situation or feeling is very severe or intense.
The war has aggravated an acute economic crisis...
戰爭加劇了原本已很嚴重的經濟危機。
The report has caused acute embarrassment to the government...
報告將政府置於窘境。
An acute illness is one that becomes severe very quickly but does not last very long.
...a patient with acute rheumatoid arthritis.
患急性風溼性關節炎的病人
...an acute case of dysentery.
急性痢疾病例
If a person's or animal's sight, hearing, or sense of smell is acute, it is sensitive and powerful.
In the dark my sense of hearing becomes so acute.
黑暗中我的聽覺變得異常靈敏。
If you say that someone is acute or has an acute mind, you mean that they are quick to notice things and are able to understand them clearly.
Into her nineties, her thinking remained acute and her character forceful...
雖已年屆九旬,她依然頭腦敏銳,個性很強。
His relaxed exterior hides an extremely acute mind.
他表面上大大咧咧,內心卻無比敏銳。
An acute angle is less than 90°.
An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.
1. a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation
1. having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course;
2. extremely sharp or intense;
3. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions;
4. of an angle; less than 90 degrees
5. ending in a sharp point
6. of critical importance and consequence;
critical, acute, urgent
這些形容詞均有"緊急的,嚴重的"之意。
keen, acute, sharp, shrewd
這些形容詞均有"銳利的,敏銳的,機敏的"之意。
Then the pain became even more acute.
痛乃逾甚.
A period of acute depression can sometimes follow childbirth.
分娩之後可能會有一段時間的急性抑鬱期.
Dogs have an acute sense of smell.
狗的嗅覺很靈敏.
They think his mother's illness is acute rather than chronic.
他們認為他母親的病是急性的,不是慢性的.
The publication comes as the answer to an acute demand.
這一出版物是為滿足急需而出版的.