syphilis
英 ['sɪfɪlɪs]
美['sɪfɪlɪs]
- n. [性病] 梅毒
词态变化
形容词: syphilitic;
中文词源
syphilis 梅毒
来自 1530 年出版于意大利的一首拉丁语诗《Syphilis,sive Morbus Gallicus》,翻译成英语即 “Syphilis,or the French Disease”,来自 Syphilis,人名,sive,或者,Morbus,病,词源同 morbid, 病态的,Gallicus,高卢。该诗讲述了一个叫 Syphilis 的牧羊人得了梅毒的故事,可能为欧洲 历史上第一个得此病的人。这首诗的创作背景如下:在 1494 年,法国入侵意大利,同年或 在 1495 年,在意大利那不勒斯发生了欧洲历史上第一次梅毒的大规模爆发,那不勒斯人坚 定认为该传染病是由法国军队入侵带来的,因此也就称之为“法国病”。后 1530 年,意大 利医生和诗人 Girolamo Fracastoro 创作了该诗歌,描述了该病在意大利的肆虐成灾,而 Syphilis 也成为梅毒的代名词。
英文词源
- syphilis
- syphilis: [18] Syphilus was the name of a shepherd who according to Syphilis sive morbus Gallicus (Syphilis or the French disease) 1530, a poem by the Veronese doctor Girolamo Fracastoro, was the first sufferer from syphilis. The word Syphilis in Fracastoro’s title meant simply ‘narrative about Syphilus’; he did not use it as a generic term for the disease until 1546, in a treatise called De contagione (Concerning contagious disease). It is not known where he got the name Syphilus from.
- syphilis (n.)
- infectious venereal disease, 1718, Modern Latin, originally from the title of a poem, "Syphilis, sive Morbus Gallicus" "Syphilis, or the French Disease," published 1530, by Veronese doctor Girolamo Fracastoro (1483-1553), which tells the tale of the shepherd Syphilus, supposed to be the first sufferer from the disease. Fracastoro first used the word as a generic term for the disease in his 1546 treatise "De Contagione." Why he chose the name is unknown; it may be intended as Latin for "Pig-lover," though there was also a Sipylus, a son of Niobe, in Ovid.
双语例句
- 1. Syphilis developed a few days after the wedding.
- 婚后没几天就染上了梅毒.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 2. Syphilis, that is, smallpox, came from the West, and so on.
- 梅毒即是天花, 来自西洋等等.
来自汉英文学 - 围城
- 3. So long as congenital syphilis early diagnosis, is also may permanently cure.
- 先天性梅毒只要早期确诊, 也是可以根治的.
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- 4. Syphilis: Sexually transmitted disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
- 梅毒: 由苍白密螺旋体(Treponemapallidum)引起引起的一种性传染病.
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- 5. What symptom does syphilis have? Through what to infect?
- 梅毒有哪些症状? 都是通过什么传染的?
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