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( 1 ) Until a century ago, bloodletting was used to treat many ailments. Dating back to before the time of Christ, the treatment involved letting a type of worm, called a leech, such blood from the patient. People believed that there were liquids called humors in the body and that these determined a person’s personality and health. Bloodletting, they thought, restored a balance to these humors. At the time, little was known of the workings of the human body, but people did know that the same liquid, blood, flowed throughout everyone’s body. They knew it was a vital substance, for loss of any great amount of it meant certain death. Thus, they concluded that all diseases were carried in the bloodstream, and that if the body was relieved of bad blood, health would return. Bloodletting, however, came to be used as a cure-all. Women were bled to keep them from blushing, while members of the clergy were bled to prevent them from thinking sinful and worldly thoughts. From the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries, barbers were the people to go to if you needed to be bled. This custom explains the significance of the traditional barber’s pole: the white stripes stand for bandages and the red stripes for blood.
( 1 ) Until a century ago, bloodletting was used to treat many ailments. Dating back to before the time of Christ, the treatment involved letting a type of worm, called a leech, such blood from the patient. People believed that there were liquids called humors in the body and that these determined a person’s personality and health. Bloodletting, they thought, restored a balance to these humors. At the time, little was known of the workings of the human body, but people did know that the same liquid, blood, flowed throughout everyone’s body. They knew it was a vital substance, for loss of any great amount of it meant certain death. Thus, they concluded that all diseases were carried in the bloodstream, and that if the body was relieved of bad blood, health would return. Bloodletting, however, came to be used as a cure-all. Women were bled to keep them from blushing, while members of the clergy were bled to prevent them from thinking sinful and worldly thoughts. From the eleventh to the eighteenth centuries, barbers were the people to go to if you needed to be bled. This custom explains the significance of the traditional barber’s pole: the white stripes stand for bandages and the red stripes for blood.
The red and white stripes on barber poles symbolize
- A sin and redemption.
- B the bleeding ritual.
- C women who are nurses.
- D humors in the body.
思路引導 VIP
請你再讀一次文章的最後一個段落，找找看理髮師（barbers）在古代除了理髮外還負責什麼樣的「特殊任務」？文中提到的條紋顏色，分別代表了那項任務中會用到的哪些物品呢？
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AI 詳解
AI 專屬家教
很棒！你精確地捕捉到了文章末段的細節。在閱讀測驗中，最後一段往往承載著有趣的歷史淵源，而你成功地將「理髮廳招牌」與文中的「放血歷史」完美連結，這顯示你具備優秀的資訊定位能力。
理髮廳招牌的歷史意義
根據文章最後一段的說明，從 11 世紀到 18 世紀，理髮師不僅負責理髮，還承擔了「放血」的醫療工作。文中明確點出，傳統理髮廳門口旋轉條紋的象徵意義：白色代表繃帶，而紅色則象徵血液。因此，紅白相間的條紋最直接的含意就是指向這項古老的「放血儀式」（the bleeding ritual），而非其他抽象的宗教或生理概念。
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