Chronic
What you think it means: Severe.你以為單詞的含義是：劇烈的。What it really means: Over the course of a long time.單詞的真正含義是：歷時(shí)長(zhǎng)久的。
This is definitely one that people ought to know better. When you have severe pain, it is just severe pain. If you have chronic pain, you have been in pain for a long, long time. Chronic conditions and diseases are called chronic because they won’t go away and not because they’re overly severe.人們絕對(duì)需要好好了解這個(gè)單詞的含義。假設(shè)你受到劇烈疼痛，那它只是劇烈疼痛而已。如果你有chronic(慢性的)疼痛，那你可得很久很久地承受這疼痛了。慢性狀況和疾病之所以是chronic(慢性的)，是因?yàn)樗鼈儾粫?huì)消退，而不是說(shuō)它們極其嚴(yán)重。
