vaccine: [18] Vaccine was adapted from Latin vaccīnus, which means literally ‘of a cow’ (it was a derivative of vacca ‘cow’, source of French vache). It was used by the British physician Edward Jenner at the end of the 18th century in the terms vaccine disease for ‘cowpox’, and hence vaccine inoculation for the technique he developed of preventing smallpox by injecting people with cowpox virus. The verb vaccinate was coined from it at the beginning of the 19th century, but vaccine itself was not used as a noun, meaning ‘inoculated material’, until the 1840s.
vaccine (n.)
"matter used in vaccination," 1846, from French vaccin, noun use of adjective, from Latin vaccina, fem. of vaccinus "pertaining to a cow" (see vaccination). Related: Vaccinal; vaccinic.
雙語例句
1. At present, no widely approved vaccine exists for malaria.
目前，還沒有被廣泛認可的瘧疾疫苗。
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2. Seven million doses of vaccine are annually given to British children.
英國孩子每年要接種7百萬劑疫苗。
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3. Roll on the day someone develops an effective vaccine against malaria.
盼望有一天有人會研製出一種能有效預防瘧疾的疫苗。
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4. The monkeys had been immunized with a vaccine made from infected cells.
這些猴子已經注射了由受感染的細胞培養而成的疫苗。
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5. This vaccine is not normally provided free under the NHS.