( <美> hemorrhage)
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- an escape of blood from a ruptured blood vessel, especially when profuse出血(尤指大出血)。
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- a damaging loss of valuable people or resources suffered by an organization, group, or state(人才、资源的)大量流失; 大损失:
a haemorrhage of highly qualified teachers.
优秀教师的流失。
no obj.
1- (of a person) suffer a haemorrhage(人)大出血:
he had begun haemorrhaging in the night.
他在夜里已经开始大出血了。
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- with obj. expend (money) in large amounts in a seemingly uncontrollable manner乱花(钱)。
词源
late 17th cent. (as a noun): alteration of obsolete haemorrhagy, via Latin from Greek haimorrhagia, from haima 'blood' + the stem of rhēgnunai 'burst'.