1800, literally "resembling typhus," from typhus + -oid. The noun is from 1861, a shortened form of typhoid fever (1845), so called because it originally was thought to be a variety of typhus. Typhoid Mary (1909) was Mary Mallon (d.1938), a typhoid carrier who worked as a cook and became notorious after it was learned she unwittingly had infected hundreds in U.S.
雙語例句
1. Everyone who is going abroad will need to be immunised against typhoid.
準(zhǔn)備出國者均需注射傷寒預(yù)防針.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
2. An outbreak of typhoid followed.
繼而爆發(fā)了傷寒.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
3. Typhoid fever sneaks in when sanitation fails.
環(huán)境衛(wèi)生搞不好,傷寒就會乘虛而入.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
4. A sudden attack of typhoid cut him off in the prime of his life.
傷寒突然發(fā)作,使他年紀(jì)輕輕就被奪去了生命.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. Painful typhoid injections are a thing of the past, thanks to the introduction of an oral vaccine.