| 单词 | sanitary cordon |
| 释义 | > as lemmassanitary cordon 4. A guarded line between infected and uninfected districts, to prevent intercommunication and spread of a disease or pestilence, literal and figurative. Called also sanitary cordon, cordon sanitaire. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [noun] > good health > state of being conducive to > non-infectious condition > quarantine quarantine1649 quarantain1669 cordon1826 isolation1891 purdah1912 society > authority > power > [noun] > powerful person or body > powerful state or nation > territory separating cordon sanitaire1826 1826 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 6 264 If a cordon against the ordinary plague is an expedient measure, etc. 1847 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago I. Introd. p. iv Leave us to draw a cordon sanitaire round the tainted states, and leave the system to die a natural death. 1861 G. A. Spottiswoode in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 89 A sanitary cordon as a protection from the plague may have mitigated the ravages of this scourge in Eastern Europe. 1885 Manch. Examiner 10 June 4/6 They will establish cordons and lazarettos in order to insure the complete isolation of all infected towns. 1920 Punch 7 Jan. 5/1 Los Angeles..is suffering from an unprecedented crime wave. A proposal by President Carranza to draw a cordon sanitaire round the place has not yet reached Washington. 1940 B. Ward Russian Foreign Policy 7 Thus the Allies succeeded in creating a cordon sanitaire of buffer-states to cut Communism off from Europe. 1964 S. Hall & P. Whannel Pop. Arts ii. vii. 191 The school..believes it is drawing a cordon sanitaire around the imagination of the young reader. 1968 Internat. Encycl. Soc. Sci. IV. 211/1 A cordon sanitaire is a territory separating two powers who if they combined in a single land mass might constitute a threat to other nations. < as lemmas |
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