单词 | fever nest |
释义 | > as lemmasfever nest fever nest n. now historical and rare a place where malaria or other feverish infection is thought likely to be acquired; = fever trap n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > place fever nest1844 fever trap1846 1844 Morning Post 26 Sept. 6/1 And a hopeful prospect it certainly is, that our fever nest at Hong-kong is to be guarded and maintained by a continuous series of ‘little wars’. 1911 J. E. C. Flitch Mediterranean Moods 295 I passed a scorching week in July at Oristano, a veritable fever-nest, without suffering any ill effects. 2013 G. C. Boon Technol. & Entrepôt Colonialism Singapore v. 129 The tropics were seen as dangerous fever nests and uninhabitable by Europeans for any prolonged period. < as lemmas |
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