Leprosy
['leprəsɪ] or ['lɛprəsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) chronic granulomatous communicable disease occurring in tropical and subtropical regions; characterized by inflamed nodules beneath the skin and wasting of body parts; caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium leprae.
校對:谢尔比--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.
校對:朱莉娅
解釋/意思:
n. a name applied to several different cutaneous diseases of contagious character now confined to lepra cutanea elephantiasis GréŽorum or Leontiasis.—n. Lep′ra leprosy: a scurfy mealy substance on the surface of some plants.—adjs. Lep′rose scale-like or scurf-like; Lep′rous affected with leprosy.—adv. Lep′rously.—ns. Lep′rousness Lepros′ity.
手打:特雷弗
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you are infected with this dread disease, foretells sickness, by which you will lose money and incur the displeasure of others. If you see others afflicted thus, you will meet discouraging prospects and love will turn into indifference.
錄入:西德尼
例句/造句/用法:
- But poverty may be as bad as leprosy, if it divides us from what we most care for. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The royal Confessor was endowed by heaven with power to cleanse the ulcers of the body, but only God himself can cure the leprosy of the soul. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- There is a stain in the fabric of the Temple, deep and foul as that left by the streaks of leprosy on the walls of the infected houses of old. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Green, were fiercest in the greater towns, where filthy and undrained streets afforded a constant haunt to leprosy and fever. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance upon Monseigneur. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
手打:斯坦