leprosy
英 ['leprəsɪ]
美 ['lɛprəsi]
助記提示
1. leaf => PIE root *lep- "to peel, scale" => lep- "(fish)scale" => leper => leprosy.
2. Also called: Hansen's disease.
3. leper 諧音“癩破兒”。
4. 諧音“爛破肉死、癩破肉死”。
中文詞源
leprosy 麻風病患者來自leper,麻風病患者。
英文詞源
- leprosy (n.)
- 1530s (earlier lepruse, mid-15c.), from leprous; see leper. First used in Coverdale Bible, where it renders Hebrew cara'ath, which apparently was a comprehensive term for skin diseases. Because of pejorative associations, the use of the word in medical context has been banned by the World Health Organization and replaced by Hansen's disease (1938), named for Norwegian physician Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (1841-1912) who in 1871 discovered the bacillus that causes it.
雙語例句
- 1. He'd pulled away from her as if she had leprosy.
- 他離她遠遠的，好像她得了麻風病似的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. His body was deformed by leprosy.
- 他的身體因為麻風病變形了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. MDT is an effective treatment and could cure all the leprosy sufferers worldwide.
- 聯合化療是一種有望治愈全世界所有麻風病患者的有效治療方法。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur.
- 謀虛逐妄的麻痹症毀壞了伺候著爵爺的每一個人.
來自辭典例句
- 5. They kill the leprosy bacteria, and the corpses get tossed into the system.
- 它們殺死了麻風病菌, 然後這些特種兵繼續攻擊體統.
來自電影對白