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单词 fever trap
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fever trap
fever trap n. now historical and rare a place where malaria or other feverish infection is thought likely to be acquired; = fever nest n.
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fever nest1844
fever trap1846
1846 Examiner 22 Aug. 531/2 If a prison were built on such a plan, with such a site, it would not stand a twelvemonth against the clamour that the humanity of the country would raise against such a fever trap.
1891 C. Creighton Hist. Epidemics Brit. 589 More recent visitors..have remarked upon their towns and villages as fever-traps.
2011 J. Neuberger in Time Out London Walks (ed. 3) II. 147/2 Beautifully designed, it was nevertheless a fever trap, for only poor women went to the lying-in hospitals.
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