Scurvy
['skɜːvɪ] or ['skɝvi]
解釋/意思:
(n.) Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
(n.) Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible.
(n.) A disease characterized by livid spots, especially about the thighs and legs, due to extravasation of blood, and by spongy gums, and bleeding from almost all the mucous membranes. It is accompanied by paleness, languor, depression, and general debility. It is occasioned by confinement, innutritious food, and hard labor, but especially by lack of fresh vegetable food, or confinement for a long time to a limited range of food, which is incapable of repairing the waste of the system. It was formerly prevalent among sailors and soldiers.
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同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Scurfy, scabbed, scabby.[2]. Vile, mean, low, base, bad, sorry, contemptible, despicable, worthless, pitiful, abject.
安琪編輯
解釋/意思:
adj. scurfy: affected with scurvy: scorbutic: shabby: vile vulgar contemptible.—n. a disease marked by livid spots on the skin and general debility due to an improper dietary and particularly an insufficient supply of fresh vegetable food.—adv. Scur′vily in a scurvy manner: meanly basely.—ns. Scur′viness state of being scurvy: meanness; Scur′vy-grass a genus of cruciferous plants efficacious in curing scurvy.
校對:拉里
例句/造句/用法:
- The crews were rotten with scurvy; there was little water and that bad, and putrid biscuit to eat. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- After four breakfasts and a gallon of champagne, to serve us such a scurvy trick. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They were blown hither and thither for two months, until sick and dying of scurvy, starvation, and thirst, they had been wrecked on a small islet. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
霍奇編輯