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...is consistent with the diagnosis of congenital *talipes equinovarus*, or clubfoot. In fact, *talipes* in Latin means “to walk on the _______.” *Talipes equinovarus*, a congenital abnormality recognized since antiquity, occurs in approximately 1 in 1000 of live births, affects males about twice as frequently as females, and involves both feet in about one half of cases. When unilateral, it is more common on the right than the left. When George Gordon Byron was aged ten, he became Lord Byron, inheriting the title of the sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale after his great-uncle died. He and his mother moved to Nottingham, near the decaying and debt-ridden estate of Newstead Abbey which he also inherited. There she employed a man known from our sources only by his surname, Lavender, who claimed an ability to cure her son’s deformity. Listed in the Nottingham directory as a surgeon, he was actually a maker of medical appliances for the general hospital. His **excruciating** regimen was to rub Byron’s foot with oil, twist it, and screw it up in a wooden contraption. His tutor remarked one day how uncomfortable he felt observing his student in such pain. “Never mind, Mr. Rogers,” Byron replied, “you shall not see any signs of it in me.” When Byron was taken to London in 1799, Dr Matthew Baillie (1761–1823) thought that early treatment might have greatly or wholly corrected the deformity, but by this time it was too late. Nevertheless, he had the bonesetter Timothy Sheldrake make some instruments for Byron’s foot. These were shortly abandoned, however, and he received a boot instead. Later that year, Sheldrake constructed a device that Baillie had designed to straighten the foot. Byron wrote: “My foot goes but indifferently. I cannot see any alteration.” Sheldrake reported that he made plaster casts of the deformity and, in his 1828 account in the medical journal Lancet, appended drawings of them. They indeed indicate a clubfoot, but on the left, not the right, suggesting that the figures were inaccurate, from another patient, or, in fact, genuine representations of Byron’s foot, reversed because of the engraving process, which creates mirror images of the original drawings. Shortly before Byron’s death in 1824 in Greece, Dr Julius Millingen (1800–78), although also misidentifying which side was affected, commented: “The foot was deformed and turned inwards; and the leg was smaller and shorter than the sound one [...] [T]here can be little or no doubt, that he was born club-footed.”
...is consistent with the diagnosis of congenital *talipes equinovarus*, or clubfoot. In fact, *talipes* in Latin means “to walk on the _______.” *Talipes equinovarus*, a congenital abnormality recognized since antiquity, occurs in approximately 1 in 1000 of live births, affects males about twice as frequently as females, and involves both feet in about one half of cases. When unilateral, it is more common on the right than the left. When George Gordon Byron was aged ten, he became Lord Byron, inheriting the title of the sixth Baron Byron of Rochdale after his great-uncle died. He and his mother moved to Nottingham, near the decaying and debt-ridden estate of Newstead Abbey which he also inherited. There she employed a man known from our sources only by his surname, Lavender, who claimed an ability to cure her son’s deformity. Listed in the Nottingham directory as a surgeon, he was actually a maker of medical appliances for the general hospital. His **excruciating** regimen was to rub Byron’s foot with oil, twist it, and screw it up in a wooden contraption. His tutor remarked one day how uncomfortable he felt observing his student in such pain. “Never mind, Mr. Rogers,” Byron replied, “you shall not see any signs of it in me.” When Byron was taken to London in 1799, Dr Matthew Baillie (1761–1823) thought that early treatment might have greatly or wholly corrected the deformity, but by this time it was too late. Nevertheless, he had the bonesetter Timothy Sheldrake make some instruments for Byron’s foot. These were shortly abandoned, however, and he received a boot instead. Later that year, Sheldrake constructed a device that Baillie had designed to straighten the foot. Byron wrote: “My foot goes but indifferently. I cannot see any alteration.” Sheldrake reported that he made plaster casts of the deformity and, in his 1828 account in the medical journal Lancet, appended drawings of them. They indeed indicate a clubfoot, but on the left, not the right, suggesting that the figures were inaccurate, from another patient, or, in fact, genuine representations of Byron’s foot, reversed because of the engraving process, which creates mirror images of the original drawings. Shortly before Byron’s death in 1824 in Greece, Dr Julius Millingen (1800–78), although also misidentifying which side was affected, commented: “The foot was deformed and turned inwards; and the leg was smaller and shorter than the sound one [...] [T]here can be little or no doubt, that he was born club-footed.”
The word “excruciating” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _______.
- A advanced
- B agonizing
- C medicinal
- D soothing
- E therapeutic
思路引導 VIP
請試著想像一下：如果一個人的腳被用力扭轉，並被木製機關強力絞緊，旁邊的人看了都覺得痛苦不忍，那麼這個過程給人的感覺，會比較偏向『舒服緩解』，還是『劇烈煎熬』呢？文中提到的『pain』一詞，與這個形容詞有什麼樣的關聯？
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語境中的字義判讀
在第三段中，作者描述了 Lavender 先生對拜倫爵士（Lord Byron）進行的治療：不僅要用油搓揉，還要「扭轉」（twist）並用木製器具「絞緊」（screw up）他的腳。隨後文中更直接提到導師觀察到學生正處於「極度痛苦」（such pain）之中。根據這些具體的動作描述與情感連結，excruciating 在這裡形容的是一種讓人難以忍受、極其痛苦的過程，因此對應到選項 (B) agonizing（使人極度痛苦的）最為貼切。其他選項如 soothing（撫慰的）或 therapeutic（有療效的）皆與文中的「痛苦」氛圍背道而馳。
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