| 单词 | leper |
| 释义 | Related topics: Illness & disabilitylep·er /ˈlepə $ -ər/ noun [countable] 1. MIsomeone who has leprosy 麻风病人2 AVOIDsomeone that people avoid because they have done something that people disapprove of 〔因做了不为人赞许的事〕别人避之唯恐不及的人 They treated me as if I was a leper. 他们把我当成避之唯恐不及的人。Examples from the Corpusleper• I know of cases where the law has been violated by one jurisdiction shifting a leper into another.• She then gave the dairy product to a leper, whose affliction immediately disappeared.• In Hawaii lepers were first sent to Molokai as colonists, not as patients.• Armies that ran out of rocks for their catapults would sometimes lob live lepers into besieged towns to scare the inhabitants.• Suppose it were announced that there were more than a million lepers among our people.• They treated me like some kind of leper.• The Disciples would surely have tried to stop the leper coming close.• Despite evidence in the 40s that leprosy was rarely contagious and easily treated, lepers were banished to remote islands until 1996.• Athelstan caught a glimpse of the two lepers, shrouded in their hoods near the charnel house.Origin leper (1300-1400) leper “leprosy” ((13-16 centuries)), from Old French, from Late Latin lepra, from Greek, from lepein “to remove skin”lep·er nounChineseSyllable leprosy Corpus who someone has |
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