Quarantine

['kwɒrəntiːn] or ['kwɔrən'tin]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease.

(noun.) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease.

(verb.) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons; 'My dog was quarantined before he could live in England'.

手打:维吉尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) A space of forty days; -- used of Lent.

(n.) Specifically, the term, originally of forty days, during which a ship arriving in port, and suspected of being infected a malignant contagious disease, is obliged to forbear all intercourse with the shore; hence, such restraint or inhibition of intercourse; also, the place where infected or prohibited vessels are stationed.

(n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.

(v. t.) To compel to remain at a distance, or in a given place, without intercourse, when suspected of having contagious disease; to put under, or in, quarantine.

錄入:罗兰

解釋/意思:

n. a forced abstinence from communication with the shore which ships are compelled to undergo when they are last from some port where certain infectious diseases are raging—the time originally forty days: (coll.) the isolation of a person house district &c. afflicted with or recovering from contagious disease.—v.t. to prohibit from intercourse from fear of infection.—adj. Quarantin′able admitting of or controlled by quarantine.—Quarantine flag a yellow flag displayed by a ship to signify the presence on board of contagious disease.

編輯:梅齐