jungle, festering sore /social issue, ulcer, pustule. pustulant, animosities rooted in

 The “void without form or dimension,” which he told his wife had invaded his being, took shape as a rare disease that would cover his body in pustulant blisters and kill him mere months after his scientific breakthrough.

Polls suggest that attitudes to immigration in Britain are rooted less in costs and benefits than in memories and identity. In that respect, Britain is truly coming to resemble a foreign country: not Poland or Romania (as some opposed to immigration grumble) but America, with its identity politics and culture wars http://econ.st/1atSNuT

Recently Eric Holder, Barack Obama's attorney-general, declared that America has an "unnecessarily large prison population". That is putting it mildly. The Land of the Free has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its prisoners. In all, about 2.2m Americans fester behind bars: one in every 107 adults  

http://econ.st/1bAzCkY

The more candid accounts from observers outside China was just one indication of the great divide between China and its neighbors as tensions fester in the region, with many of the animosities rooted in strikingly different views of history.境外觀察者對這個論壇的更坦率描述，只是中國與鄰國間巨大分歧的一種寫照。目前該地區緊張局勢不斷發酵，而其中許多敵意植根於彼此間迥異的歷史觀。

Bollywood Star Remakes Himself as TV Conscience

By VIKAS BAJAJ 5:09 PM ET

Mixing Oprah Winfrey-style interviews on a couch with short reports from the field, Aamir Khan’s show has been shining a spotlight on festering social issues in India.

I've just read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an "eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay."


French authorities move in to clear a migrant Jungle

French police cleared out a camp of migrants near the port city of Calais
this week. The camp, which was known as “the jungle,” had become a
festering sore for the French government.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew1vacI44va89pI1



root

verb

[with object]

• 1cause (a plant or cutting) to grow roots:root your own cuttings from stock plants
• [no object] (of a plant or cutting) establish roots:large trees had rooted in the canal bank

• 2establish deeply and firmly:vegetarianism is rooted in Indian culture
• (be rooted in) have as an origin or cause:the Latin verb is rooted in an Indo-European word

• 3 [with object and adverbial] (often as adjective rooted) cause (someone) to stand immobile through fear or amazement:she found herself rooted to the spot in disbelief

• 4 Computing gain access to the root account of (a smartphone or computer):we explained how to manually root almost any Android device

• 5Australian/NZ & Irish vulgar slang have sexual intercourse with.
• exhaust (someone) or frustrate their efforts: (as adjective rooted)grab a pew—you must be rooted

fester
v., -tered, -ter·ing, -ters. v.intr.

1. To generate pus; suppurate.
2. To form an ulcer.
3. To undergo decay; rot.
4. 1. To be or become an increasing source of irritation or poisoning; rankle: bitterness that festered and grew.
   2. To be subject to or exist in a condition of decline: allowed the once beautiful park to fester.

v.tr.
To infect, inflame, or corrupt.
n.
A small festering sore or ulcer; a pustule.

[Middle English festren, from festre, fistula, from Old French, from Latin fistula.]

[動](自)

1 〈傷が〉うむ, 化膿(かのう)する；〈体内の異物などが〉潰瘍(かいよう)をつくる.

2 〈ゴミなどが〉腐る；((主に英))〈食物が〉腐る.

3 （憤りなどで）心がうずく, 心にわだかまる, 〈怒りなどが〉大きくなる, 高じる；〈問題などが〉悪化する

Hatred festered in her heart.
彼女の心は憎しみにうずいた.

━━(他)〈傷を〉うませる；〈心を〉うずかせる, 悩ます.

━━[名]潰瘍, うずく傷；小さな化膿性の外傷.

［中フランス語←ラテン語fistula（パイプ→潰瘍）. △FISTULA］

fester

Syllabification: (fes·ter)

Pronunciation: /ˈfestər/

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verb

[no object]

• (of a wound or sore) become septic; suppurate:I developed a tropical sore that festered badly (as adjective festering)a festering abscess
• (of food or garbage) become rotten and offensive to the senses:a gully full of garbage that festered in the shade
• (of a negative feeling or a problem) become worse or more intense, especially through long-term neglect or indifference:anger which festers and grows in his heart
• (of a person) undergo physical and mental deterioration in isolated inactivity:I might be festering in jail now

Origin:

late Middle English: from the rare word fester 'fistula,' later 'festering sore,' or Old French festrir (verb), both from Old French festre (noun), from Latin fistula 'pipe, reed, fistula'

 pustulant

adj. Causing the formation of pustules. n.

化膿的
Drugsa medicine or agent causing pustulation.

ulcer

n. - 潰瘍, 腐爛物

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 潰瘍, 病幣, 病根