mass noun
1
- the action of sorting according to quality按性质分类。
2
- (in medical use) the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties伤病员鉴别分类。
with obj.
- decide the order of treatment of (patients or casualties)确定（众多病人或伤者）的治疗顺序：
victims were triaged by paramedics before being transported to hospitals.
受难者在被送往医院之前, 先由医护人员确定治疗顺序。
词源
early 18th cent.: from French, from trier 'separate out'. The medical sense dates from the 1930s, from the military system of assessing the wounded on the battlefield.