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单词 bubonic plague
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bubonic plague
noun[U]
uk
/bjuːˌbɒn.ɪk ˈpleɪɡ/us
/bjuːˌbɑː.nɪk ˈpleɪɡ/
the mostcommonformofplague, a veryinfectiousdiseasecausedbybacteriaspreadmainlybyfleas(=smallinsectsthatbite)onratsor otheranimals, thatcausesswelling,fever, and usuallydeathinhumans:
Bubonicplagueisbelievedto havekilledaround one-third of thepopulationofEuropein the 14thcentury.
Compared withdeathsfromthebubonicplague, thesefiguresarelow.
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  • Healthworkersin theregionhavedocumentedoutbreaksofpolio,whoopingcoughandevenbubonicplague.
  • A capuchinmonkeyat thezoodiedof bubonicplague.
  • Ratsspreadbubonicplaguewhenfleasthatbitethemjumptohumansandbitethem too.
  • He writes how the Princesscontractedthe bubonicplagueanddiedfivedayslater.
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(Definition ofbubonic plaguefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
Examples from literature
  • He wrote a very clear account of the epidemic, which leaves no doubt that it was true bubonic plague.
  • It carried fever-patients for the hospital at Genoa, ill of the bubonic plague.
  • No precautions that sanitary science can suggest have been omitted, yet the weekly reports now show an average of twenty thousand deaths from the bubonic plague alone.
  • She killed rats by the hundreds of thousands, rat-proofed her buildings, and thus, at one stroke, eliminated all fear of bubonic plague.
  • The bubonic plague prevails there with a frightful mortality.
bubonic plague
noun[U]
uk
/bjuːˌbɒn.ɪk ˈpleɪɡ/us
/bjuːˌbɑː.nɪk ˈpleɪɡ/
a veryinfectiousdiseasespreadbyrats,causingswelling,fever, and usuallydeath. In the 14thcenturyitkilledhalfthepeoplelivinginEurope.
腺鼠疫；腹股沟淋巴结鼠疫

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bubonic plague
All patients were treated just after the clinical diagnosis of plague (bubonicplaguewith cervical, inguinal or axillary buboes) and all patients recovered subsequently.
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The non-literary numismatic, legal, and papyrological evidence can thus be seen to concur with the testimony of our contemporary eyewitness accounts for the late-antiquebubonicplague.
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We have practically conquered cholera, and what have we done againstbubonicplague?
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No prevalence of sickness has been reported except on one vessel wherebubonicplague, attributable to rats, broke out.
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He warned us of just about every other evil short ofbubonicplague.
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We are talking of the possibility of a considerable number of those who remain being struck down bybubonicplagueor some other illness.
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One of our research workers caught and died ofbubonicplaguea year or two ago.
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I am against blank cheques, but we are faced with an absolutely horrific problem of historic proportions—it is similar to thebubonicplague.
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Let us take the example of thebubonicplagueburial pit.
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Most of the cases have beenbubonicplague, but a certain number of cases of pneumonic plague have occurred.
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The world has not seen such an epidemic since thebubonicplague.
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Within a matter of hours, it is possible to move from an area ofbubonicplagueor smallpox to our own island.
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In some other years they have rivalledbubonicplaguein their appeal.
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It is becoming worse than the ravages ofbubonicplague.
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No one can object that nations not only research into thebubonicplaguebut also manufacture vaccines against it.
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