"All stove up" nghĩa là gì?

"All stove up" = (thuyền) bị chọc thủng -> nghĩa là đau ốm, không khỏe, bị chấn thương.

Ví dụ

Hose and I, being all stove up, moseyed down to one of Don's other houses surrounded by mostly grass land facing a steep slope.

At least a couple of times a week, Mazie finds injured men lying in the street. On these occasions she telephones Police Headquarters and asks for an ambulance from Gouverneur or Beekman Street, the hospitals which take care of most Bowery cases. She knows many of the drivers from these hospitals by name and orders them around. Police say she summons (gọi đến) more ambulances than any other private citizen in town, and she is proud of this. “I don’t overdo it,” she says. “Unless a man is all stove-up and bloody, I don’t put in a call, but if I had my way, the wagons would be rolling all night long. There’s hardly a bum on the Bowery who don’t belong in a hospital.”

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