单词 | fever trap |
释义 | > as lemmasfever 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. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > place 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. < as lemmas |
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