Calenture

[kælәn,tjuә]

解釋/意思:

(n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it.

(v. i.) To see as in the delirium of one affected with calenture.

手打:波莉

解釋/意思:

n. a kind of fever or delirium occurring on board ship in hot climates.

校對:露辛达