Giant burgers cause jaw injuries in Taiwan巨無霸漢堡在台灣造成下顎受傷

 ◎張沛元
Giant burgers cause jaw injuries in Taiwan
巨無霸漢堡在台灣造成下顎受傷
Taiwanese dentists have urged fast food chains to drop over-sized hamburgers from their menus following a growing number of jaw injury cases, a report said.
一份報導指出，隨著下顎受傷病例數量逐漸增加，台灣牙醫呼籲速食連鎖店業者將超級大漢堡從其菜單中除名。
Patients have developed sore jaws or had difficulties opening their mouths after consuming giant burgers, the China Post quoted professor Hsu Ming-lung of the School of Dentistry at National Yang-Ming University as saying.
英文中國郵報引述陽明醫學大學牙醫學系系主任許明倫的話說，病患在吃了巨無霸漢堡後，會有下巴痠痛或張嘴困難等問題。
Problems can arise when fast-food fans tuck into hamburgers larger than eight centimetres （three inches） high, Hsu said according to the paper.
根據該報，許明倫說，當熱愛速食的消費者把超過8公分（3英寸）高的漢堡塞進嘴裡時，就會發生問題。
A human mouth is designed to gape over objects measuring up to four centimetres, and overextending can hurt the joint between the jawbone and the temporal bone in front of the ears, Hsu said.
許明倫表示，以人嘴的設計而論，張開時最多只能包覆4公分高的物體，過度張嘴會對頜骨與耳朵前方的顳骨之間的關節造成損害。
新聞辭典
jaw： 名詞，下巴。one’s jaw drops，下巴掉下來，指非常驚訝。jaw dropper，令人感到驚訝或震驚的人事物。例句：My jaw dropped when I heard she’d filed for divorce from her husband of 40 years.（當我聽說她申請跟結縭40年的老公離婚時，震驚得不得了。）
drop someone or something from something：某人或某物從高處掉落；摒除某人或某物。例句：We were forced to drop Sally from our guest list.（我們不得不把莎麗從賓客名單中除名。）
sore：形容詞，疼痛，痠痛。例句：I’ve got a sore throat.（我喉嚨痛。）